Ecumenical collaboration is the core of my service as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission co-worker. That collaboration includes partnering with Churches Witnessing with Migrants (CWWM), a grassroots network of migrants, migrant-serving groups and faith-based institutions. Through ecumenical collaboration, CWWM’s mission is to claim the God-given dignity of migrants in a framework of human rights, sustainability and development justice.
The titles of two workshops held last week during the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators event — “Killing Church Softly” and “Reviving Church Loudly” — together served up a vision about what intergenerational worship and Christian education could look like in the coming years.
To learn what’s really going on with Palestinians living in occupied portions of Israel Palestine, go see their plight.
“The PC(USA) has been engaged for quite a while on freedom for the Palestinian people. We continue to do that through advocacy, and it’s done by taking opportunities to educate through people who come to Israel Palestine and go home with a conversion experience,” said the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the host of Monday’s Facebook Live event. This week Nelson hosted the Rev. Fahed Abu-Akel, Moderator of the 214th General Assembly who founded the Atlanta Ministry with International Students.
World Mission announced Friday it has named Luciano Kovacs as the new area coordinator for the Middle East and Europe. Kovacs is filling the position that became available when Phillip Woods became associate director for strategy, program and recruitment.
Short testimonial films honoring each of the four educators honored Friday by the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators told the stories of experienced church workers whose dedication, talent, love and fearlessness have enhanced and even transformed the spiritual lives of perhaps thousands of Presbyterians.
Five years ago, the Rev. Dr. Bob Breed made a conscious decision to serve a smaller PC(USA) church part-time in Charlotte, N.C., where he could also work at the city’s men’s shelter.
In early October 2018, two dozen members of the Congo Mission Network (CMN) converged on Washington, D.C., to advocate for U.S. support for democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The gathering, which preceded the annual CMN meeting, sought to raise the DRC’s profile prior to presidential elections in that country on Dec. 30. The CMN members sought U.S. assistance to strengthen democratic institutions in the Congo and to avert a humanitarian disaster by mobilizing resources to assist parts of the DRC that have been affected by corruption, conflict and natural disasters.
You probably wouldn’t expect to see people throwing mulch in a modern dance performance any more than you’d expect to see a modern dance performance at a migration conference.
The Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has spoken out against a bill which would allow state and municipal governments to punish entities that boycott, divest or sanction Israel in support of Palestinian rights. The bill passed the United States Senate 77-23, Tuesday.
The final meeting day for the Committee on the General Assembly (COGA) opened with the Reverend Warren Lesane reminding the group of a grim anniversary. On February 8, 1968, South Carolina patrol officers in Orangeburg, South Carolina, opened fire on protesters from the South Carolina State University campus. As many as 200 had protested earlier in the evening against racial segregation at a local bowling alley. In the end, three African American students were dead and twenty-seven other protesters were injured.