It’s Never Too Late to Break The Silence; A Story of Hope and Restoration. Download the file to read more.
Our 2013 Theme for Observing Domestic Violence Awareness is Stories of Hope and Restoration. Download the document to learn more.
Our 2013 packet theme is Stories of Hope and Restoration. This annual packet for Observing Domestic Violence Awareness includes resources that faith communities might find useful in worship, in your own work with victims and survivors of domestic violence, and in educating congregational members on how to be effective agents of hope, that may empower others toward restoration (and in doing so, be restored, themselves). We hope that you will use these resources in the month of October and throughout the year, working to Break The Silence around domestic violence.
A young birth mother had contacted the adoption agency just hours before the agency’s 4 a.m. call to Rev. Kevin Lind and his wife. Their long wait was over: the Linds had been chosen to adopt her newborn baby. An Adoption Assistance Grant from the Assistance Program of the Board of Pensions helped cover the cost for the Linds to be by their new baby’s side, three states away, until they were permitted to take her home.
April 2013 Presbyterian Mission Agency Board meeting minutes
The Comparative Statistics report is published annually in the fall 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.
See individual Comparative Statistics 2012 tables:
1. PC(USA) Congregations and Membership, 2001 to 2012
2. Distribution of PC(USA) Congregations by Membership Size and Synod, 2012
3. PC(USA) Membership by Region and State/Territory, 2012
4. Membership Gains and Losses of PC(USA) Synods and …
Technical Information
Number of PC(USA) Congregations, How They Are Served, Worship Attendance, and Giving Information by Membership Size, 2012
PC(USA) Synod and Presbytery Rankings Based on Per Member Validated Mission Expenditures, 2012, and
Race-Ethnicity and Gender of PC(USA) Members, Deacons, Ruling Elders, Active Teaching Elders, and Commissioned Ruling Elders, 2012
PC(USA) Congregational Receipts, 2011 and 2012, and
PC(USA) Congregational Expenditures, 2011 and 2012