October 31, 2024
After showing visitors the massive food and disaster relief distribution program going on daily outside and inside Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Asheville, North Carolina, the Rev. Amy Kim Kyremes-Parks still marvels at what she sees every day. “We are Matthew 25 for real,” said the church’s Director of Formation for Children and Their Families.
October 31, 2024
Tributes poured out, tears flowed freely and song filled the virtual and physical space as the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board (PMAB) convened in hybrid fashion on Wednesday for the second and final day of its last meeting.
October 30, 2024
“Since this is the last and final report that I will give to you,” said the Rev. Dr. Diane Givens Moffett at the opening of the final meeting of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board on Tuesday. Moffett referenced the dissolution of her position as president and executive director and the board of the Presbyterian Mission Agency before taking “a moment to go down memory lane” and “to engage some of the work that God has accomplished through us and through the power of the Spirit at work in us as we have done this work.”
October 30, 2024
The Rev. CeCe Armstrong and the Rev. Tony Larson, Co-Moderators of the 226th General Assembly (2024) , joined members of Foothills Presbytery and two staff from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for a time of sharing on Tuesday at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Greenville, South Carolina.
October 29, 2024
On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg, Germany. This past Sunday, many congregations celebrated this event as a catalyst for the way the Reformed faith came to be and continues to understand its calling. “Presbyterians celebrate the tradition that grounds their faith on Reformation Sunday,” according to the Presbyterian Historical Society, which publishes bulletin inserts highlighting a significant figure or event in the Reformation.
October 29, 2024
While the clever lawyer in the parable of the Good Samaritan may ask Jesus, “Who is my neighbor,” the members and leaders at Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana in Brownsville, Texas, boldly ask a slightly different question. Who is my family?
October 29, 2024
Nestled on seven acres named Presbyterian Circle, nearly 100 Presbyterians from three presbyteries — Baltimore, National Capital and New Castle — came together on Saturday at First Presbyterian Church of Howard County for what was dubbed the Matthew 25 Mid-Atlantic Summit.
October 29, 2024
Pastors and other church leaders in Trinity Presbytery got creative reaching out to parishioners following Hurricane Helene.
October 28, 2024
The Board Bulletin is published after each regular meeting of the Board of Directors of The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and represents key information and actions taken that affect plans and programs administered by the Board of Pensions.
October 28, 2024
Barbara G. Wheeler, of New York City and Granville, New York, died on October 24 at Calvary Hospital in New York City, with her husband Sam and her son Isaac at her side. She was 79.
October 28, 2024
With several tables full of clergy and lay people gathered at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, on Saturday as part of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance’s solidarity visit to hurricane-affected communities, the Rev. Jim Kirk set the tone by drawing on the wisdom of consolation and desolation posited by St. Ignatius and taught to Kirk by the Rev. Dr. Laurie Kraus, the PC(USA)’s Director of Humanitarian and Global Ecumenical Engagement and the former director of PDA.
October 28, 2024
On Sunday following worship, members and friends of Belle-Terrace Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia shared both their food and their hearts with members of a team making a solidarity visit following Hurricane Helene that includes Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and the Synod of South Atlantic’s Executive and Stated Clerk, Valerie Young.
October 25, 2024
Eleanor and I met by accident. It was an ordinary day. I was browsing Pearl, the digital collection at Presbyterian Historical Society, for eye-catching content, humming along to whatever song dribbled from my computer’s speakers. Scrolling, scrolling, endlessly scrolling, until — a specter, a ghostly figure in white, prompted me to pause, my finger hovering atop my mouse. Or — no. Not a ghost. A woman.
October 25, 2024
The first of four sessions exploring the book “Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible” commenced Thursday with the author, the Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, joining more than 50 participants for a 75-minute discussion that encompassed the book’s first chapter, “Settler Colonialism, Palestine, and the Bible.”
October 25, 2024
Just a few days before visitors from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, the Synod of South Atlantic, the Presbytery of Tampa Bay, together with the Executive Director and Stated Clerk of the General Assembly for the interim unified agency, the Rev. Jihyun Oh, arrived at Maximo Presbyterian Church in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Thursday, “this place looked awful,” said the church’s pastor, the Rev. Bobby Musengwa.
October 24, 2024
Praying for world peace and an end to the suffering of colonized people, the Presbyterian Ministry at the United States led the midweek service of the Presbyterian Mission Agency on the eve of UN Day.
October 24, 2024
Dan Bautista once traveled the world with a pharmaceutical rep’s bag. Now all he carries is a Bible. And a burden for the poor. His call to care for the most vulnerable of God’s children led him to leave his position of 20 years with one of the world’s largest biomedical and pharmaceutical companies to become more actively engaged as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
October 24, 2024
T-shirts emblazoned with the names of local victims of fatal gun violence encircled a cross at Union Presbyterian Seminary on a recent afternoon. The T-shirts, placed on the ground at the base of the cross, called attention to a problem that is all too common, not only in Mecklenburg County but the nation as a whole.
October 24, 2024
On Wednesday, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance spent the first day of a 10-day solidarity tour with staff from the Synod of South Atlantic and Peace River Presbytery hearing from some of the faith communities affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
October 23, 2024
A longtime partnership was elevated to a higher strategic level recently when a delegation of five United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) representatives visited the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s national offices earlier this year.
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