In 2010, the General Assembly voted to reinstate observance of "Criminal Justice Sunday" in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), as well as approving some funding “to support a broad convocation of interested individuals, to be called by PHEWA, to consider and propose the creation of a Presbyterian Health, Education, and Welfare Association (PHEWA) network on criminal justice for education and advocacy ministries…”
The resources available here grow out of the ministry of a Presbyterian lay pastor, and former PHEWA board member, who has worked with incarcerated women in Tulsa, Oklahoma for the past eleven years.
PHEWA’s Presbyterian Health Network (PHN) has developed resources for observing 2012 Health Awareness and Day of Prayer for Healing and Wholeness. This year’s theme is Faithful Care of Our Bodies: Our Most Important Tool for Ministry.
March 2012
Facts and statistics regarding how congregations participate in hunger ministry
Use this sheet music to One Great Hour to Share with your congregation as you receive the One Great Hour of Sharing.
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That the General Assembly Committee on Ecumenical Relations recommends to the 218th General Assembly (2008) to:
The Presbyterian Church (USA) [PC (U.S.A.)] and the Korean Presbyterian Church in America (KPCA) are denominations with common roots and commitments in the Reformed tradition. The emotional ties are the legacy of their mission history. Protestant Christianity in Korea began through the sending of U.S. Presbyterian missionaries to Korea in 1885. Over the past century, Presbyterians in Korea have demonstrated phenomenal growth despite their difficult experiences of suffering. They have become genuine partners in mission and ecumenical engagement not only in Korea and Asia but also throughout the world.
It has been nearly fifty years since the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA, proposed in a sermon at Grace Episcopal Cathedral, San Francisco, the establishment of a dialogue between the Protestant Episcopal Church and the United Presbyterian Church in the USA, in the hope that this would result in a united church that would be “truly catholic, truly reformed, and truly evangelical”. This would later be expanded to include the United Methodist Church and, subsequently, seven other denominations, including three historically black Methodist denominations. This would give rise to the Consultation …
See locations where your One Great Hour of Sharing and designated gifts were at work in 2011.
Sample from the Being Reformed Lenten study Looking at the Cross.