Proposals including shifting the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s funds development, interpretation and education function into the PC(USA)’s Administrative Services Group are among those the Moving Forward Implementation Commission is nearly set to include in its report to the 224th General Assembly, due Feb. 21.

“Binkle’s Time to Fly,” a new picture book about how to approach challenges, is now available. 

Urgency filled the room. On January 19, the Rev. Jacqueline Troncoso had just been elected as moderator of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Chile (IEPCh), the first woman to hold this post. The Synod assembly had just approved a powerful pastoral letter calling on all Chilean Presbyterians to support the drafting of a new national Constitution.

In recent months, the world’s attention has focused on the Amazon rainforest, widely considered to be one of the most important lungs of planet Earth. Covering parts of nine countries in South America, this vast and incredibly diverse region both traps carbon dioxide that leads to global warming and creates the oxygen vital to many forms of life.

Heidi Yewman graduated from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado years before the 1999 massacre that guaranteed the school a place in the history of gun violence in the United States.

미국장로교 총회 정서기는 도널드 트럼프 대통령의 중동 정책에서 팔레스타인 사회에 도움이 될 만한 것은 아무 것도 없다고 말했다. J. 허버트 넬슨 목사는 오늘 장로교인들에게 그 계획을 비난하는 성명을 발표했다.

그는 "이 ‘거래’는 수십 년 동안 팔레스타인 사람들을 이스라엘의 점령 하에 있게 했던 조건들을 냉소적으로 반복한 것에 지나지 않는다"고 기록한다. "이것은 이스라엘이 팔레스타인의 땅을 터무니 없이 훔치는 것을 정당화하고 있으며, 심지어 팔레스타인 국가에 할당된 지역에도 이스라엘의 군사 통치를 계속할 것입니다."

El secretario de la Asamblea General de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE. UU.) dice que no ve nada en el plan del Medio Oriente del presidente Donald Trump que beneficie a la comunidad palestina. El reverendo Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II emitió una declaración al pueblo presbiteriano hoy denunciando el plan:

—Este «acuerdo» es poco más que una reformulación cínica de las condiciones que han mantenido al pueblo palestino bajo la ocupación israelí durante décadas —escribe. —Codifica el robo atroz de tierras palestinas por parte de Israel y continuaría el gobierno militar de Israel, incluso sobre las áreas asignadas al llamado estado palestino.

As Brian Frick, an associate for Christian Formation working with camp and conference ministries in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), began planning a retreat with Ghost Ranch leaders to see how they might learn from and align their work with mission initiatives of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, he began to ask questions.

The Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity spent most of last week’s national gathering of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators turning her back on attendees — allowing them to watch her at work.

“God’s Big Plan,” a new board book by noted Christian educator Elizabeth F. Caldwell and Old Testament scholar Theodore Hiebert, is now available.