PC(USA) News

February 23, 2024

The first and historic Matthew 25 Summit was held January 16-18 at New Life Presbyterian Church in South Fulton, Georgia. This event was the first in-person gathering for people committed to and interested in learning more about the Matthew 25 movement.

February 23, 2024

Dr. Jasmine L. Harris, a guest earlier this month on the weekly edition of “A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast,” talked about what changes are needed for Black women to be truly accepted, welcomed and empowered while pursuing higher education.

February 22, 2024

A group in Chicago is making sure that people who often get overlooked, such as individuals with disabilities, are seen and heard when it comes to issues related to health, education and welfare.

February 22, 2024

According to the Rev. Wilson Kennedy, people doing the work of ministry do well to remember the words of a pair of neurologists who star in the Netflix documentary series, “Lennox Hill”: “Remember, there is a person here.”

February 22, 2024

When the Association of Partners in Christian Education (APCE) gathered for its annual conference at the Union Station Hotel in St. Louis in late January, conference co-chair Mich Phillips had one key partner in mind – Living Waters for the World (LWW), the global ministry of the PC(USA)’s Synod of Living Waters.

February 21, 2024

A concert offered Sunday at Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Gaffney, South Carolina featured musicians who reimagined hymns in contemporary gospel and jazz styles. 

February 21, 2024

Presbyterian Publishing Corporation gathered four gifted scholars and preachers — all of them with books published by Westminster John Knox Press — for a Tuesday webinar called “Leading with Good News in Difficult Times: Preaching and Teaching at Easter.”

Recommendation to go before 226th General Assembly this summer

February 21, 2024

Rick Jones | Office of the General Assembly

LOUISVILLE

The Presbytery of Milwaukee is being recommended as the host of the 227th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 2026. The Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) voted in favor of the recommendation during its virtual two-day meeting last week. Kate Trigger Duffert, OGA’s director of General Assembly planning, said the city can meet all the needs for hosting an assembly.

Stated Clerk joined other church heads of communion with an urgent message of peace

February 20, 2024

Fred Tangeman | Office of the General Assembly

Washington, DC

Last week, the Rev. Bronwen Boswell, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, joined other church heads of communion in the nation’s capital to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

The leaders also pressed U.S. government officials to renew funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) and to work for the release of all hostages in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

February 20, 2024

Earlier this month, Presbyterians Today released a feature article in digital form via the Presbyterians Today blog platform. The piece, written by journalist and OGA communications staff member Fred Tangeman, delves into the unique ways that isolation and loneliness contribute to burnout among Presbyterian clergy.

February 20, 2024

More than 160 people tuning into Monday’s third online installment studying Matthew Desmond’s best-selling book, “Poverty, by America,” discussed together the heart of Desmond’s argument for doing away with poverty: how we rely on welfare, how we buy opportunity and a chapter on how to invest in ending poverty.

February 17, 2024

Ahead of the 120-day deadline for the 226th General Assembly, the Unification Commission on Saturday unanimously approved its interim report, with a final report due to the 227th General Assembly in 2026.

A February look at the life and legacy of Florence and Henry Boyes

February 16, 2024

McKenna Britton | Presbyterian Historical Society

PHILADELPHIA

After visiting Lebanon’s Kennedy Memorial Hospital in 1950, Dr. Paul S. Rhoads, working for the Board of Foreign Missions of the PCUSA, typed up a descriptive account of all he’d witnessed. The report is full of praise for the clinic, its staff and the medical missionary couple who ran it. Through Rhoads’s words, we are offered a glimpse into the world of Kennedy Memorial — the world of Florence and Henry Boyes.

February 16, 2024

“God is not yet finished with the Presbyterians!” said Nick Warnes, director of Cyclical LA, a ministry of the Presbytery of San Fernando in California, and executive director of Cyclical INC. Warnes was describing what it meant for him to meet the milestone of 55 new worshiping communities in the 55-year history of the Presbytery of San Fernando.

February 16, 2024

The Rev. Zacharie Mboyamba Kabala of Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), will be keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Congo Mission Network March 14-16 at the Charleston Atlantic Presbytery Conference Center in Charleston, South Carolina. He and a roster of other speakers, both in person and via video, will address the challenges raised in the conference theme, “Education for Transformation: Equipping Congolese Youth for the Future.”

February 15, 2024

During the Synod of the Covenant’s Equipping Preachers webinar last week, the Rev. Dr. Cindy Halvorson worked with participants to engage John 2:1-11 — an account of Jesus’ first miracle — through the eyes of the person of their choice as part of the story of Jesus transforming water into wine during the wedding at Cana.

확실하게 준비하라.

February 15, 2024

발레리 이즈미

흔히, 더 이상 당회에서 사역하지 않는 사역 장로는 자신이 한때 사역 장로였다고 말할 것이다. 그러나 사역 장로의 안수는 당회의 사역이 끝났다고 해서 종료되지 않는다. 사역 장로는 하나님의 백성을 섬기는 활기찬 사역을 계속할 수 있고, 또 계속해야 한다.

시애틀의 머서 아일랜드 장로교회에서 사역 장로와 집사로 안수받은 알렉스 맥심은 이 점을 마음에 새기고 교인들이 단순히 관망하지 않고 동참하는 것이 중요하다고 믿는 사역 장로 중 하나이다.

Prepárese con los ojos abiertos

February 15, 2024

valerie izumi

Muy a menudo, las personas ordenadas como ancianas gobernantes que ya no sirven en el consistorio dirán que solían serlo. Sin embargo, la ordenación como personas ordenadas como ancianas gobernantes no expira cuando se ha completado su servicio en el consistorio. Las personas ordenadas como ancianas gobernantes pueden y deben continuar su vibrante ministerio de servicio al pueblo de Dios.

Alex Maxim, ordenado anciano gobernante y diácono en la Iglesia Presbiteriana de Mercer Island en Seattle, es uno de esos ancianos gobernantes que se ha tomado esto en serio y cree en la importancia de que las membresías de la iglesia participen y no solo observen.

Be Ready with Your Eyes Open

February 15, 2024

valerie izumi

So often, ruling elders who no longer serve on the session will say that they used to be a ruling elder. Ordination as ruling elders does not expire when their service on the session has been completed, however. Ruling elders can and should continue their vibrant ministry of service to the people of God.https://www.mipc.org/

Alex Maxim, ordained a ruling elder and a deacon at Mercer Island Presbyterian Church in Seattle, is one of those ruling elders who has taken this to heart and believes in the importance of church members participating and not just observing.

February 15, 2024

The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People has released its annual SDOP Sunday Resource & Yearbook and it’s available for free online, with a list of 13 ways to engage in poverty eradication.