Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Jonathan and Emily Seitz. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Jonathan and Emily serve at Taiwan College and Theological Seminary at Taipei, helping to prepare leaders for the Taiwanese church. Jonathan serves the school as professor of theology and missiology. The seminarians he prepares for ministry typically begin their ministries in Taiwan’s small, rural churches. In addition, he teaches lay leaders as part of the seminary’s Lay Academy and pastors who return for continuing education.
Download a map of downtown Pittsburgh, hotels and other Assembly locations for the 220th General Assembly (2012).
Use this card as you pray for Mission Co-workers Dr. Robert Daniell and Elizabeth Turk. The card includes a photo and overview of their work. Serving in partnership with the Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar (FJKM), Dan and Elizabeth work to improve the lives of the Malagasy people. Elizabeth trains village health workers, helps communities develop safe drinking water sources and educates church leaders and youth about AIDS prevention. Dan has helped the FJKM develop an extensive fruit tree program that includes a fruit tree nursery and extension work with farmers. He also does environmental education, helping people …
The first systematic look at associate pastors including their demographics, background in ministry, where they serve, their experiences in ministry, and how they compare to solo pastors and heads of staff.
Dozens of congregations in the Pittsburgh area are welcoming assembly participants to their churches on Sunday, arranging for any necessary transportation, and hosting assembly guests for lunch following the service.
The list of congregations below includes information about these churches and the transportation arrangements. Most buses and vans depart from the David Lawrence Convention Center (DLCC), participants will be returned to the DLCC by 1:00 p.m.
Please sign up to worship with one of these congregations as you register for the assembly so that plans can be confirmed for transportation and meals.
Use this card as you pray for mission co-workers Alan and Ellen Smith. This card includes a photo and overview of their work. In addition to her responsibilities as Regional Liaison, Ellen helps twin congregations in the United States with congregations in Russia and Belarus. The goal is to develop long-term relationships across the boundaries of history, language, culture and denomination. Once a strong relationship is established, congregations often engage in joint projects that include summer camp ministry, orphanage ministry, drug rehabilitation, and outreach to families with handicapped children. Alan focuses on evangelistic outreach to minority people in Eastern …
In the following resource, we invite you to explore twelve dynamic new racial ethnic and new immigrant communities of faith. As you may know, new immigrant ministries are the fastest-growing communities of faith in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Of the 10,657 PC(USA) congregations, more than 12 percent are racial ethnic congregations. And, if we include other communities of faith, almost 15 percent of Presbyterian communities of faith are racial ethnic.
This just might be what church looks like: Discover what church looks like when a congregation in Warner Robins, Georgia, engages their community and drives their mission outside the walls of their church.
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Use this resource to minister to youth and young people in the wake of a recent school shooting tragedy.
Tributes, Districts, Reapings and Mockingjays … The Hunger Games trilogy is ready to commence in your youth room!
Join the millions of readers, young and not so young, in entering this fantastic and powerful story of a post-apocolyptic world dependent on its young to survive.
You are invited to use this free resource, developed by two Presbyterian youth workers, to explore themes of courage, friendship and alliance!