La Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.) reconoce a cuatro mujeres afroamericanas prominentes que desempeñaron un papel en la carrera de la Administración Nacional de Aeronáutica y del Espacio (NASA por sus siglas en inglés) para poner a los humanos en el espacio. El Reverendo Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Secretario de la Asamblea General de la IP (EE.UU.), está honrando a Mary Jackson, Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, Dr. Christine Darden y Katherine Johnson, con los Premios de la Iglesia Crystal Teardrop.
Commissioners to the 224th General Assembly made short work of the docket for their second plenary session Friday, completing their business more than an hour earlier than scheduled.
The opening worship of the 224th General Assembly Friday morning found the duo delivering their final sermon remotely as the gathering has been forced to go online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
56세에서 65세 사이의 백인 여성들이 미국장로교 제 224차 총회(2020년)의 총대와 자문 대표단의 가장 많은 부분을 구성한다. 총회 대표위원회(GACOR)는 이날 오후 12페이지 분량의 보고서를 발표했다. 이 보고서에는 온라인 집회에 참여하는 개인의 인종, 연령, 성별, 시간대에 대한 수치가 세분화되어 있다.
Las mujeres blancas de entre 56 y 65 años constituyen el mayor grupo de comisionados y delegados asesores a la 224ª Asamblea General (2020) de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE. UU.). El Comité sobre Representación de la Asamblea General (GACOR) publicó esta tarde un informe de doce páginas en el que se desglosan las cifras sobre raza, edad, sexo y zonas horarias de las personas que participan en la asamblea virtual.
White women between the ages of 56 and 65 make up the largest group of commissioners and advisory delegates for the 224th General Assembly (2020) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)./p>
Four prominent African American women who played a role in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) race to put humans in space are being recognized by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the PC(USA), is honoring Mary Jackson, Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, Dr. Christine Darden, and Katherine Johnson with the church’s Crystal Teardrop Awards.
The ministry of presence is important in God’s mission. Yet even when a global pandemic causes cancellation of short-term mission trips, congregations and presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are showing care and compassion in creative and urgently needed ways from afar.
On behalf of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, the Mission Development Resources Committee (MDRC) recently approved 10 Mission Program Grants to 1001 New Worshiping Communities and two presbyteries for their congregational transformation work.
Just this week, North Korea announced it had suspended but not canceled military action against South Korea. That action would have sent armed North Korean soldiers back to the demilitarized zone (DMZ). At the Pyongyang Summit in 2018 South Korea and North Korea agreed to remove armed guards along the border to decrease hostilities.