On Thursday night at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) board director and public historian Tim Hoogland gave an hour-long presentation on the life and legacy of the Rev. David Sindt.  

Following the presentation, PHS Executive Director Nancy J. Taylor led a panel discussion reflecting on Sindt’s story and connecting it to the struggles faced by LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities in 2023.

The playing of handbells “is not a one-size-fits-all musical idiom,” said Sandy Eithun, who’s co-directing handbell choirs this week during the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference being held at Montreat Conference Center. “There are places for everyone, and we need everyone.”

While the Rev. Dr. John Wilkinson appreciates that all large organizations have “many moving parts that all work together” — just as the Apostle Paul’s scriptural metaphor of the “one body” would have it — he did not expect that his family would be among those parts that kept moving.

The Book of Order and the Book of Confessions provide the foundation and framework for how the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ministers to congregations. It takes individuals with a clear understanding of those documents to navigate the church through conflicts or other issues that may get in the way of ministry. In this week’s OGA In Focus, Laurie Griffith, associate director for Constitutional Interpretation in the Office of the General Assembly, shares the joys of helping others follow God’s call.

An overflow crowd gathered at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle Saturday to remember the Rev. Earl F. Palmer, a Presbyterian minister, scholar, author and teacher who died April 25 at age 91.

Steve Prince, the artist in residence during the two weeks of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference, has taken the accumulative approach with the dozens of students he’s been working with last week and this week.

The Rev. Cheryl Barnes, recently named the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s (PMA) World Mission African Area Coordinator, was honored last week with the Maria Fearing award at the National Black Presbyterian Caucus (NBPC) conference held in North Charleston, South Carolina.

The Rev. Warren Julius Nelson took great care in molding the future. In a Board of National Missions personnel file, he responded to the question “What part of your work is most interesting to you?” with the following words: “Inspiring the youth to become Christians and make good citizens.”

Through his role as a father and illustrious career as a pastor, the grandfather of the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), did just that.

The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), held June 22-24, highlighted the agency’s ongoing drive to serve more, serve better, and serve the Church through the Benefits Plan of the PC(USA) and the Board of Pensions’ education and financial assistance programs.

With the final work by artist-in-residence Steve Prince and his students welcoming everyone gathered in Anderson Auditorium at Montreat Conference Center to “come unto me,” Friday’s worship at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference capped a week of thoughtful, prayerful, community-building worship that put glorious music by people of all ages front and center.