Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Discussion on the 228th General Assembly (2028) will occur during COGA’s meeting next month at Zephyr Point

August 16, 2024

Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service

LOUISVILLE

Meeting via Zoom Thursday, members of COGA, the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly, debriefed over what they observed and some of the feedback they received following the 226th General Assembly, which concluded last month in Salt Lake City, Utah.

August 16, 2024

Columbia Theological Seminary has named Maci Sepp Director of Vocational Outreach in the office of Enrollment Management and Vocational Outreach, effective on Monday.

August 15, 2024

The Rev. Dr. Otis Turner, a Presbyterian pastor and scholar who was a longtime advocate for racial and social justice, died Aug. 2 in Jacksonville, Florida.

August 15, 2024

As then-tropical storm Ernesto neared Puerto Rico earlier this week, the director of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance briefed colleagues on the storm that was to come.

기쁨으로 주님을 섬깁시다

August 15, 2024

발레리 이즈미

침례교 신자로 자란 펠리카 에젤-길레스피 사역 장로는 전문 재즈 보컬리스트이자 음악가입니다. 그녀는 재즈 콘서트에서 공연하다가 처음으로 장로교회를 방문하게 되었습니다. 몇 년 후 미주리주 세인트루이스에 있는 제3 장로교회의 한 장례식에서 노래를 부르게 되었고, 그때부터 다시 교회에 오고 싶다는 생각을 하게 되었습니다. 그리고 마침내 교인으로 등록을 하였습니다.

Servir al Señor con alegría

August 15, 2024

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Criada como baptista, Felica Ezell-Gillespie, vocalista y músico de jazz de formación, visitó por primera vez una iglesia presbiteriana por la música y los conciertos de jazz en los que actuaba ocasionalmente. Varios años después se encontró cantando en un funeral celebrado en la Tercera Iglesia Presbiteriana de Saint Louis, Missouri, y supo entonces que quería volver. Con el tiempo, se convirtió en una persona miembro.

August 15, 2024

September is a month where “we begin new things, restart or reconnect in our small churches,” said Sandy Safford, a Christian educator and commissioned lay pastor who recently served a small church for 10 years.

Serve the Lord with Gladness

August 15, 2024

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Raised a Baptist, for ruling elder Felica Ezell-Gillespie, a trained jazz vocalist and musician, it was the music and jazz concerts where she occasionally performed that first brought her to visit a Presbyterian church. Several years later she found herself singing at a funeral held at Third Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri, and knew then that she wanted to return. Eventually, she became a member.

August 15, 2024

Every day of our tour revealed new corners of Armenia that I never imagined, but day six was my favorite. As we traveled to the Lori region in the north of Armenia, the fields along the highway burst with red and yellow poppies as low mountains rose in the distance.

August 15, 2024

In a party fueled by some of the favorite snack items of the new Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), colleagues at the Presbyterian Center welcomed the Rev. Jihyun Oh to the denomination’s highest ecclesial office Wednesday with smiles, their best wishes and no small number of hugs.

August 14, 2024

With Ephesians 2:10 as their scriptural basis, the co-moderators of the 226th General Assembly, the Rev. CeCe Armstrong and the Rev. Tony Larson, joined the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Rev. Jihyun Oh, to lead a hybrid worship service Wednesday in the Chapel at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, Kentucky. One by one, the three recently elected denominational leaders spoke on “Created,” “Called” and “Commissioned.”

August 14, 2024

The Presbyterian Office of Public Witness has launched an online video series to help members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and other interested voters prepare for the general election in November.

August 13, 2024

MaryB. Safrit, a communicator, creator, coach and the host of the Found Family podcast, did the hosts of “A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast” a favor in a broadcast aired earlier this month, appearing as the guests of Simon Doong and the Rev. Lee Catoe on an episode of “A Matter of Faith” called “Knowing Ourselves (and Singleness).” Listen to their 67-minute conversation here.

August 13, 2024

It’s easy to take clean drinking water for granted in the United States, but in countries like Haiti, it is a precious commodity.

August 13, 2024

I thought I knew Armenia. After all, this was my family’s fourth trip here since we adopted our youngest daughter, Hasmik, in 2006. I had seen much of the country, traveling as far south as Stepanakert in the breakaway republic of Artsakh. Each time we returned, I saw evidence that Armenia was shaking off its Soviet influence while proudly holding onto its culture and traditions. But this tour with the Jinishian Memorial Program (JMP) took me to corners of Armenia I had never experienced and allowed me to meet inspirational entrepreneurs and youth who are at the forefront of a young and dynamic country.

August 12, 2024

At times, do you have negative thoughts playing in your head that conflict with the biblical statement, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made”? If so, you’re not alone, according to the Rev. Laura Mariko Cheifetz, transitional associate pastor for Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church in Sunnyvale, California.

August 12, 2024

The Rev. CeCe Armstrong, co-moderator of the 226th General Assembly (2024) and the associate pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, wrapped up the 2024 Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women on Sunday with a sermon focused on the theme “Love Always …,” drawing as inspiration familiar and treasured words from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.

August 10, 2024

Friday’s evening plenary at the 2024 Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women in St. Louis included a dance and a discussion of the upcoming 2025-26 PW/Horizons Bible Study, “Finding Resilience, Joy and Identity in Jesus Christ.”

August 9, 2024

Using food as a centerpiece, the Rev. Yung Me Morris took the audience at Presbyterian Women’s 2024 Churchwide Gathering on a journey Friday, beginning with the everyday hospitality of Korean people and climaxing with the universal need to show more hospitality for those going without food because of traumatic experiences such as war, homelessness and greed.

August 9, 2024

A Unification Management Office will be hired to help support the work of the Unification Commission.