On the heels of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) joining 28 other faith partners in the One Home One Future campaign, Presbyterian hymnwriter the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written a hymn to support the Creation care campaign.
With two members in dissent, the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board voted Friday to appoint a three-member task force to study equitable unified clergy compensation by exploring “innovative models to increase the number of churches that can engage pastoral leadership.”
Having read Matthew Desmond’s book “Poverty, by America” together, members of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board meeting online Thursday discussed what they might do to help eradicate systemic poverty, as called for by the PC(USA)’s Matthew 25 invitation.
Last week, 22 people gathered at Stony Point Center for a Faith Formation at Home Symposium sponsored by the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Office of Christian Formation. Over three days, participants met to share their contexts and wisdom, to learn about new initiatives and resources, and to listen to presentations on formation with Generations Z and Alpha.
Mike Klinefelter, Regional Gift Planner for the ELCA Foundation, spends much of his time having conversations that most people don’t want to have.
Princeton Theological Seminary is expanding its suite of flexible and accessible learning opportunities, executed by a growing team of education leaders with extensive experience in delivering engaging online education.
Junto con un grupo de aliados ecuménicos, una delegación de asociados de la IP (EE. UU.) se reunió con una delegación cubana en la Semana de Alto Nivel de la 78ª Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas para tratar temas como las sanciones económicas, el cambio climático y cómo profundizar la colaboración entre la IP (EE. UU.) y su iglesia hermana la Iglesia Presbiteriana - Reformada en Cuba - la Iglesia Presbiteriana Reformada en Cuba (IPRC). La delegación cubana estaba compuesta por el Presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel, el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y los embajadores cubanos en Estados Unidos y la ONU.
An interagency delegation from the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) and the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) is returning to Juneau, Alaska, this weekend to attend a Formal Service of Acknowledgement, Apology and Commitment to Reparations. The apology is one of more than a dozen steps directed by the General Assembly last summer.
In 2019, the Rev. Kim Dawsey-Richardson took on the challenge of revitalizing the fading but faithful First Presbyterian Church of El Cajon, California. Important changes began, including closing the preschool and restructuring the staff.
“What does it look like for us to network?” the Rev. Larissa Kwong Abazia, the designated strategic director of NEXT Church and vice moderator of the 221st General Assembly (2014), recently asked a room full of leaders representing five independent nonprofits that support Christian educators, youth workers, older adult ministry, college campus ministry, and camps and conference centers.