The Presbyterian Mission Agency is hosting a dialogue next week on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. The meeting is in response to a request from the 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) that “the Presbyterian Mission Agency facilitate dialogue events, which would include the authors of the 2005 civil society call and interfaith partners who are opposed to the BDS movement and any interested Presbyterians.”
The Way Forward Commission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) began a three-day meeting today with the goal of formalizing its report to the 223rd General Assembly (2018) meeting in St. Louis this summer.
Today’s worship service at the chapel at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) offices was not your typical service. Following the call to worship, participants joined in a rousing prayer for justice that included excerpts from the Confession of Belhar in a rhythm from Ghana, West Africa. The prayer was led by Alonzo Johnson, director of Self Development of People, and his African drum.
To be relevant in the 21st century, the church must read scripture differently — to determine who is left out of the biblical texts and reach out to those people, the Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, II told Seattle Presbytery Tuesday night in a thunderous sermon that electrified a full house at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church.
Flor N. Vélez Díaz, presbiteriana de toda la vida procedente de Mayagüez, ha sido nombrada gerente del proceso judicial en la Oficina de la Asamblea General (OGA). Ella comienza su nueva labor el 29 de enero.
Vélez Díaz tiene un bachiller en microbiología industrial (2003) y una licenciatura en derecho de la Universidad Interamericana en Hato Rey, Puerto Rico (2006). Ella, desde su admision en el Colegio de Abogados en el 2006, trabajó tanto en la práctica privada, como en el Senado de Puerto Rico y en el Departamento de Justicia.
푸에르토 리코 출생으로 평생 장로교인인 플로 벨레즈 디아즈Flor N. Vélez-Díaz는 총회 사무국(OGA)에서 사법 절차 관리자로 임명되었다. 그녀는 1월 29일부터 새로운 일을 시작한다.
Vélez-Díaz는 푸에르토 리코의 Hato Rey InterAmerican 대학교에서 Industrial Microbiology 학사(2003), 법학 석사 (2006) 등의 학위를 취득했다. 그녀는 2006년 변호사 자격증을 획득한 이래로 푸에르토 리코 상원과 법무부 뿐만 아니라 사설 관행에서도 일했다.
그녀는 현재 불법 행위, 교도소 불법 행위, 건강법 및 의료 과실에 종사하는 변호사, 불법 행위 및 의료 과실 소송과로 푸에르토 리코 법무부의 변호사 I로 일하고 있다. Vélez-Díaz는 중재 및 대체 분쟁 해결 뿐만 아니라 민사 및 관습법에도 정통이다.
벨레즈-디아즈는 에드윈 곤잘레즈-카스티요Edwin González-Castillo 목사와 결혼한 …
Flor N. Vélez-Díaz, a lifelong Presbyterian and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, native, has been appointed manager of judicial process in the Office of the General Assembly (OGA). She begins her new work January 29.
Vélez-Díaz holds a B.S. in Industrial Microbiology (2003) and a law degree from InterAmerican University in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico (2006). She has, since being admitted to the bar in 2006, worked in private practice as well as for the Puerto Rico Senate and Department of Justice.
Westminster Presbyterian Church opened its spacious new wing on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, with more than 1,100 people celebrating the physical connection of their 121-year-old church to a new building full of sunlight and color.
Residents of Montecito, Ventura and Santa Barbara are still reeling from the recent mudslides that have left residents dead, injured and homeless. Sticky sludge and mud can be seen up to the rooftops in homes along the pathway of destruction in Santa Barbara. Witnesses say the rocks, trees, boulders and houses came plowing through the communities in a matter of seconds.
<한국어> He prayed for us. Harry came over and prayed for us. It was a small, extraordinary act of kindness, for which I am still grateful today. Not too many years ago, my husband and I were in the throes of uprooting from our apartment in San Francisco to a small rural town in the foothills of California because he had been called to a church as its transitional pastor. And it had all happened so quickly.