Following yet another weekend marred by deadly gun violence in Louisville, Mid-Kentucky Presbytery opened its May 22 stated meeting at Briargate Presbyterian Church with a screening and small-group discussion in response to “Trigger: The Ripple Effect of Gun Violence,” a documentary directed by David Barnhart as part of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance’s Story Productions.

Although 15-year-old Grace Reck usually can’t wait to try new things, when given the chance last year to attend her first churchwide youth conference at Montreat, she dragged her feet. For a minute. Ever since then, the first-year high school student has jumped at every opportunity to lean in — including “Belonging Together,” a fall youth retreat held in November 2022 at Camp Loucon in Leitchfield, Kentucky, by the state’s three presbyteries.

Members of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) National Response Team took a few hours out of their recent annual meeting to hear from representatives of two Colorado presbyteries that the team has served over the past few decades. 

Montreat Conference Center in Montreat, North Carolina, has announced its Summer Worship Series for 2023. Services are held in Anderson Auditorium at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time beginning on June 4 and running each Sunday through Aug. 6. The services will be livestreamed here.

For the Rev. Joanne Rodríguez, executive director of the Hispanic Theological Initiative at Princeton Theological Seminary, “en conjunto," or “on the whole” describes the way HTI helps Latine scholars through their doctoral studies and into the academy or wherever it is that God is calling them.

In May 1866, the Committee for Education of Freedmen shared its first annual report with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). The year before, as the Civil War came to an end, the denomination’s General Assembly had organized the committee with the purpose of establishing churches and schools among the communities of African Americans freed from slavery.

Meeting Saturday for the sixth time, the 12-member Commission on the Unification of the Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency — the Unification Commission for short — learned during an online gathering the timeline for the work ahead and shared some of the progress made by a pair of the commission’s four work groups.

As is their custom, members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board of Directors launched day two of their meeting Friday by reporting to one another the progress of the various PC(USA) boards and commissions on which they sit.

The Rev. Dr. M. Craig Barnes, president emeritus of Princeton Theological Seminary, jumped at the chance earlier this month to speak to preachers as part of Synod of the Covenant’s Equipping Preachers series.

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board attended a film premiere of sorts Thursday afternoon.