The Presbyterian Hunger Program and its Global Solidarity Network will begin a five-week book study in September to help people gain a better understanding of the Church’s complicity in colonization and the exploitation of Indigenous land, resources and people.
Each Sunday this month, Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska is putting service into its worship service. The Rev. Chris Peters, Westminster’s head of staff, is offering a month-long “When Life Shows Up to Church” preaching series by considering the question, “What do we do when the storms of life show up to church?”
The Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) is recommending to the 226th General Assembly that the entire agency review process be delayed two years. During its monthly meeting on Thursday, COGA’s action also included language asking that its business and referrals workgroup confer with the General Assembly Nominating Committee (GANC) on how to best present the assembly next year.
The Office of Christian Formation of the Presbyterian Mission Agency is partnering with Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, to offer a four-day, three-night intergenerational Creation care event from April 6-9, 2024, culminating with a total solar eclipse.
El nuevo seminario web Connecting the Dots del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Militarismo de la Agencia Presbiteriana de Misión está programado para el miércoles 6 de septiembre al mediodía, hora del Este.
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The Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Militarism Working Group’s newest Connecting the Dots webinar is scheduled for noon Eastern Time on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
Presbyterian church members became passionate about the plight of medical debtors who can’t afford their medical bills after learning about a debt relief effort offered by the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt organization. Through a donor campaign launched in their churches over the summer, together they raised enough money to abolish $4,577,749.43 of medical debt for thousands of Kentucky residents.
Earlier this summer, the second in-person meeting of the ninth round of U.S. Roman Catholic-Reformed Ecumenical Dialogue took place in Chicago, with participants continuing to discuss areas of possible cooperation related to justice.
Attending the meeting at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Center were participants from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), United Church of Christ, Reformed Church in America, Christian Reformed Church in North America and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Three dynamic guests, including some of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A)’s leading voices, will headline the next Matthew 25 workshop on effective methods for eradicating systemic poverty.
At the outset of Tuesday’s webinar on vital congregations, organizers the Rev. Veronica Cannon, the Rev. Tony Oltmann and Marla Edwards had the nearly 70 participants play a game: name an outdated mode of technology beginning with “V,” “C,” “I” or “M” that your faith community might still be using.