The Presbyterian Peace Network for Korea rejoices at the significant developments during these first months of 2018 that have reduced tensions in the Korean Peninsula and raised hopes for peace in that region.
Roceni Bakian has a front-row seat to the human rights challenges facing women and children every day. As a full-time pastor with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, she is working with the Regional Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Cordillera region to address the issue and work for change.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continued to lose members in 2017, extending a pattern that has persisted since the mid-1960s. At the end of the year, church membership totaled 1,415,053, a decline of 67,714 members from 2016.
At the same time, a five-year period of unprecedented losses neared an end as net membership losses returned to previous levels over the last 50-plus years. The larger losses between 2012 and 2016 were brought on by the dismissal of about 100 churches (and their members) each year to splinter denominations after the 2010 General Assembly voted to allow the ordination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as church officers and the 2014 Assembly voted to allow same-gender marriage.
Just compensation for ministers, an elder-care program in the New York City area, and confirmation of the president of the Presbyterian Foundation will be on the agenda of Committee 13 of the 223rd General Assembly, which meets June 16–23 in St. Louis.
Committee 13 will address items of business related to four of the six national agencies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): the Board of Pensions (BOP), Presbyterian Investment and Loan Program (PILP), Presbyterian Publishing Corporation (PPC) and the Presbyterian Foundation.
Remnants of Tropical Storm Alberto have caused serious problems for western North Carolina this week. Record rainfall over the past three weeks, coupled with flooding on Tuesday evening, has impacted many communities, including Montreat.
A proposal endorsing “affirmations regarding the welfare of our neighbors in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador” will be considered by the Assembly Committee on Peacemaking, Immigration and International Issues at the 223rd General Assembly, which meets June 16–23 in St. Louis.
The proposal, from the Presbytery of the Pacific, recommends creating a “mission co-worker position to facilitate a Meso-American faith-rooted advocacy witness in Central America.” The mission co-worker would work in partnership with the Reformed Calvinist Church in El Salvador and other churches in the Northern Triangle of Central America and Mexico “to develop a Meso-American refugee and immigration advocacy network.”
Las congregaciones de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE. UU.) están invitadas a unirse al espíritu de la 223ª Asamblea General (2018) cantando un himno encargado para la asamblea durante los servicios de adoración del 17 de junio. La asamblea se reúne desde el 16 de junio y al día siguiente, los asistentes a la asamblea visitarán las iglesias de toda el área de St. Louis para la adoración matutina.
El nuevo himno «Draw the Welcome Circle Wider» (en inglés) escrito por la notable autora de himnos presbiterianos Mary Louise Bringle, fue encargado por el Comité de Arreglos Locales (COLA) de la 223AG. El pueblo presbiteriano está bien familiarizado con Mel Bringle a través de sus himnos, su enseñanza en conferencias y su servicio como presidenta del Comité Presbiteriano de Canto Congregacional, que produjo Glory to God: The Presbyterian Hymnal.
미국장로교회는 6월 17일 주일예배에서 총회를 위해 제작된 찬송가를 부름으로써 223차 총회 (2018)의 정신에 동참하도록 권유 받는다. 총회는 6월 16일에 시작하며, 다음날에는 총회 참석자들이 세인트 루이스 지역의 아침 예배를 위해 교회들을 방문한다.
주목할 만한 장로교 찬송가인 메리 루이스 브링겔Mary Louise Bringle의 새로운 찬송가 "Draw the Welcome Circle Wider"는 223차 총회의 지역 준비위원회(COLA)가 의뢰하였다. 장로교인들은 멜 브링겔과 그녀의 찬송가, 컨퍼런스에서의 가르침, 그리고 하나님께 영광: 장로교 찬송가의 회중찬송 위원장으로서의 그녀의 봉사에 대해 잘 알고 있다.
With gray and overcast skies above them, a group of 25 to 30 people gathered at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville on Friday morning to begin a two-week trek to St. Louis on foot. The PC(USA) Walk for a Fossil Free World is a joint project of both the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Fossil Free PCUSA to stand against investment in the fossil fuel industry.
Un nuevo estudio de la Escuela de Salud Pública T.H. Chan en Harvard estima que el número de muertes durante y después del huracán María puede estar cerca de 4,600 o más. El estudio, publicado esta semana en el New England Journal of Medicine, sugiere que la falta de acceso a la atención médica y a las necesidades básicas pueden haber sido factores que contribuyeron a esta situación.