For pastors and budget committee members, there’s nothing scarier than Stewardship Sunday.
Jack Hemple grew up at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Toledo, Ohio. His parents were married there. He was baptized there. “I remember being there a lot as a kid,” Hemple said, adding that back then his mother loved to knit. “She was always knitting. She had a specific hat pattern that she used and she’d knit hats and give them to the church,” he remembered. But in the late 1980s, a lack of support caused the church to close.
Las co-moderadoras de la 223a Asamblea General (2018) de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE. UU.) creen que es hora de profundizar en la capacitación de pastores/as comisionados/as. La anciana gobernante Vilmarie Cintrón Olivieri y la reverenda Cindy Kohlmann han anunciado una nueva conferencia de capacitación que se realizará la próxima primavera.
Lucy Awate Dabi stands resplendent in an emerald green dress in a church social hall in the heart of Kentucky’s horse country talking about her home of South Sudan.
Protests in Hong Kong have been going on continuously since June. Things have not gotten better — in fact, the situation has worsened. Clashes between police and protesters have become more frequent and at times more violent.
Two recent Presbyterian seminary graduates are being given an opportunity to study ecumenism from one of the top institutes in the world. Margo Richardson and Quantisha Mason are the newest Eugene Carson Blake Scholars, who are now enrolled at the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland.
Thursday marks the 74th anniversary of the day that the United Nations Charter came into force. To help Presbyterians mark the occasion, Sue Rheem, mission specialist for international advocacy at the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations, wrote this prayer:
As U.S. Rep. James Clyburn’s conversation with Presbyterian Office of Public Witness coordinator the Rev. Jimmie Hawkins wound down Tuesday, the South Carolina Congressman offered his variation on President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” “Make America’s greatness affordable and accessible to all its citizens,” Clyburn said.
The Presbyterian Mental Health Ministry is currently conducting a churchwide survey, seeking input from as many people as possible.
The final plenary at the Mid Council Leaders Gathering in Baltimore focused on some frank conversation around per capita, the primary funding source for the Office of the General Assembly (OGA).
In a presentation to the group, OGA leaders outlined the financial constraints facing the agency now and the need to increase per capita as the demand for services grows.