May 2012
Facts and statistics regarding trends in women in church leadership roles
In this article from Call to Worship 44.3 (2011), Jonathan Carroll makes the case for exploring weekly Eucharist during the Season of Easter, drawing on his pastoral experience and study of Invitation to Christ.
Download the Spring 2012 Present Word table of contents.
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is an annual meeting of nongovernmental organizations committed to ensuring women’s equality and promoting women’s rights in the resolutions and work of United Nations member states. Representatives of Presbyterian Women attended this meeting in 2012, focusing on rural women, empowerment, poverty reduction and rural development. Read more about the event, Presbyterian Women’s work with the United Nations, and how you can connect.
Links is the electronic newsletter of Presbyterian Women’s Justice and Peace Committee. Each issue explores a topic of justice and peace and offers suggestions for how to be involved …
Some of God’s tiniest creations—seeds—are producing big changes in Haiti. Taken from the March 2012 issue of Presbyterians Today.
April 2012
Facts and statistics regarding trends in how congregations give to support mission
The Office of International Evangelismworks within Presbyterian World Missionto do evangelism in many parts of the world. Much of our work is helping to fund partner organizations to engage effectively in evangelism. Some of our work supports frontier evangelism, bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ to people who have never heard it before. And some of our work is in Bible translation and distribution, making the Word of God available to people who would not otherwise have it.
Because we often work in areas that have security concerns, we cannot always publicize our efforts on the web or in print …
Download a map of downtown Pittsburgh, hotels and other Assembly locations for the 220th General Assembly (2012).
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.
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.