Westminster John Knox Press announces the release of “Were You There?: Lenten Reflections on the Spirituals” by Luke A. Powery.
The Presbyterian Historical Society has announced seven Heritage Preservation Grants to PC(USA) congregations in 2019.
Martin Luther King Jr. did not have to go to Birmingham. He had options, Rev. Dr. Kevin W. Crosby recalled Wednesday morning during the annual Presbyterian Center Service of Commemoration for the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Well on his way to becoming the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history, to that point, King seemed poised for the pulpit at his home church in Atlanta, or maybe the presidency of Morehouse College. Birmingham was a powder keg, known as “Bombingham” because of the pervasive race-based violence in the Alabama city. But after prayer, King told his father and his mentor that his place was with “the suffering people of Birmingham,” Cosby said. “He went down there and was arrested.” And that is where he wrote the iconic Letter from Birmingham Jail, which formed the basis for Wednesday’s worship service at the third floor chapel with the Ohio River serving as a backdrop.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) A Corporation (A Corp.) took an important step Wednesday toward achieving its mandate from the 223rd General Assembly (2018). According to a news release issued following an executive (closed) session, the board voted unanimously to approve structural changes combining seven departments into the newly named Administrative Services Group.
Friend, mentor and predecessor. That’s how the Rev. Dr. Diane Moffett, president and executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, remembered the Rev. Dr. Leon Fanniel, who died last month at age 88 and was remembered last week at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. Both Moffett and the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), attended Fanniel’s service of witness to the resurrection.
제인Jane은 제일장로교회의 공천위원회에서 일하며, 카미라Kamira를 초대하여 당회에서 한 기간을 더 섬기도록 공천했습니다. 카미라는 그녀가 지난 봉사 기간을 마치면서 얼마나 낙담하고, 좌절하며, 영적으로 고갈되었는지를 나눔으로써 응답했습니다. 그녀는 다시 봉사하기를 거부했습니다. 제인은 다음 후보자인 벤Ben에게 연락하자 그는 열심히 봉사하겠다고 동의합니다. “장로로서의 시간은 제가 교회에서 봉사한 것보다 더 크게 저의 신앙이 자라도록 도와주었습니다.”
Jane es miembro del comité de nominaciones de la Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana y ha invitado a Kamira a servir otro término como anciana en el consistorio. Kamira respondió compartiendo lo desanimada, frustrada y agotada que se sentía cuando completó su último período de servicio. Ella se negó a servir de nuevo. Cuando Jane llama a Ben, su próximo candidato, él acepta servir ansiosamente. «Mi tiempo como anciano me ayudó a crecer en mi fe más que cualquier otra cosa que haya hecho en la iglesia».
Jane serves on the nominating committee of First Presbyterian Church and has invited Kamira to serve another term as elder on the session. Kamira responded by sharing how discouraged, frustrated, and spiritually depleted she felt when she completed her last term of service. She declined to serve again. When Jane calls her next candidate, Ben, he eagerly agrees to serve. “My time as an elder helped me grow in my faith more than anything else I have ever done in the church.”
It’s statistics season for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Each January, churches throughout the denomination begin filling out forms that will help the Office of the General Assembly determine trends.
“It gets pretty busy between now and the end of February when churches submit their information to presbyteries, who then forward the data to us,” said Kris Valerius, manager of Denominational Rolls and Statistics for OGA. “So far, we have about 1,200 churches that have entered their data so that’s good.”
The Food Center at Morrisville Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania opened more than two decades ago as an emergency resource. As the federal government shutdown dragged into its fourth week, volunteers there realized a new emergency was developing. “Ron Workman, who is our treasurer, is the one who suggested we might want to look into offering food to furloughed federal employees,” says Carol Romano, operations manager for the food bank.