The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) urges divestment and/or proscription of some corporations due to their involvement in military-related production (MR), tobacco (TO), human rights violations (HR), and operating for-profit prisons (FPP). This file contains a comprehensive list of corporations or securities affected by those General Assembly policies.
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The Comparative Statistics report is published annually and summarizes data on membership, finances and ministers provided by each congregation to the Office of the General Assembly via the Session Annual Statistical Report. The report compares annual statistics to show trends in areas such as membership gains and losses, receipts and expenditures, and number of ministers. Table of Contents: 1. PC(USA) Congregations and Membership, 2003 to 2014 2. Distribution of PC(USA) Congregations by Membership Size and Synod, 2014 3. PC(USA) Membership by Region and State/Territory, 2014 4. Membership Gains and Losses of PC(USA) Synods and Presbyteries, 2014 5. Distribution of PC(USA) …
Use this resource in your bulletins during a worship service planned around the issue of human trafficking. The information and scripture may be used for a Minute for Mission, too.
This is a companion piece to the Presbyterian Hunger Program Bible Study and the Impact through Seeds video on the page.
This one-session Bible study will give participants the opportunity to reflect on the biblical call to work as partners with people who have been made poor in order to address hunger and its causes.
Cada año, en un Domingo de la Cuaresma, los Presbiterianos celebran el ministerio del Comité Presbiteriano del Auto-desarrollo de los Pueblos (ADP), un ministerio de la Ofrenda La Gran Hora de Compartir. Este año, el Domingo de ADP es el 13 de Marzo; este recurso brinda materiales para ayudarlo a interpretar el ADP en su congregación. Visítenos en www.pcusa.org/sdop
This grant program provides supplemental funding to the partner congregation and/or presbytery in support of new worshiping community leaders who would not otherwise be able to afford health insurance. These grants are limited to new congregations and new worshiping communities that are related to the Presbyterian Church (USA), are located within the United States and Puerto Rico and were established no earlier than July 2010. To obtain a Korean translation of this resource, please contact the Mission Program Grants office by phone at (888) 728-7228, Exts. 5230 / 5251 or by e-mail at tim.mccallister@pcusa.org or bill.moore@pcusa.org.
At least eighteen months after receipt of an Investment Grant, a one-time Growth Grant of up to $25,000 is possible and will provide for the next eighteen months. Approval of a Growth Grant is conditioned upon significant progress being made toward meeting the goals and objectives as outlined in the Investment Grant proposal. A dollar-for-dollar match provided through presbytery and/or synod is ordinarily required. In-kind contributions are acceptable and waivers of the match will be considered on a case-by-case basis, upon request. The Growth Grant supports and encourages new worshiping communities whose process of faithful discernment has led them to …