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October 18, 2024

Hard conversations that young people yearn to have with their church, communities or caregivers was the topic of the first episode of the second season of “Around the Table,” a podcast made possible by the Around the Table initiative in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Around the Table is a Lilly Endowment Inc.-funded initiative in the PC(USA) that engages faith communities, parents and caregivers in innovative practices of sharing stories that grow intergenerational communities to support household faith formation.

October 18, 2024

The Executive Director and Stated Clerk of the interim unifying agencies, the Rev. Jihyun Oh, joined more than a dozen U.S. Christian faith leaders in signing a letter addressed to both presidential campaigns requesting each “work toward a just and permanent solution that addresses the core issues” in the ongoing violence in Gaza and Israel-Palestine.

October 18, 2024

The Rev. Dr. Teri McDowell Ott, editor and publisher of the Presbyterian Outlook, conducted the following interview with Doug Dicks, a PC(USA) mission co-worker and regional liaison for Israel, Palestine and Jordan. The article originally appeared in the Presbyterian Outlook and is republished by Presbyterian News Service with permission from the Presbyterian Outlook.

October 18, 2024

In the heart of Petaluma, California, a town steeped in agricultural history, First Presbyterian Church has found a unique way to connect with its community: through a yearly Blessing of the Animals service.

October 17, 2024

Meeting via Zoom on Thursday, members of the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly continued to discuss details about the next two General Assemblies — GA 227 in 2026 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and GA 228 in 2028 at a site that’s yet to be announced.

October 17, 2024

After casting your ballot on Nov. 5, you’re invited to join the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for an online prayer vigil to help relieve anxiety, create a sense of community and be unified in Christ.

October 17, 2024

Displaying the candor, humor and deep faith that has made her a best-selling and beloved author, Anne Lamott — who for decades has worshiped and taught Sunday school at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Marin City, California — appeared last week at First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, California before a large and enrapt crowd.

October 17, 2024

Kevin Riley’s life has been full of risk — and not all of it good. Riley, the commissioned pastor of Mount Baker Presbyterian Church in Concrete, Washington, suffered from addiction, homelessness, and incarceration earlier in life. Those life experiences, harrowing as they are, increased his comfort level with risk — an attitude that served the church well when the Covid pandemic arrived.

October 17, 2024

"O God, We Give Thanks for the Saints Gone Before Us" is a new hymn for All Saints Day by the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette celebrating faithful Christians in the past and present.

October 16, 2024

Frontera de Cristo, the PC(USA)-supported ministry based in the neighboring cities of Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, will celebrate four decades of cultivating understanding and relationships this weekend, October 18-20.

October 16, 2024

“We should not be precious about Christianity,” said Dr. Matthew D. Taylor, senior Protestant scholar at the Institute for Jewish, Christian and Muslim Studies in Baltimore, in answer to the question, “Are the movements that comprise Christian nationalism and internationalism even Christian at all?” The question was posed on Monday evening at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Herencia Lectures.

October 16, 2024

Together with leaders of the Mennonite Church USA and the Lipan Native American Church, the Rev. Jihyun Oh has signed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Apache Stronghold v. United States et al. Read the brief here by scrolling down to the Oct. 15 filings.

October 15, 2024

A spirit of solidarity and hope was evident throughout a prayer service hosted by the Synod of South Atlantic last weekend to comfort those trying to rebound from recent storms — particularly Hurricane Helene and its more recent cousin, Milton — and to lift up those assisting survivors.

Where is the place God is leading you?

October 15, 2024

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A few years ago, ruling elder Clara Harper, then a member at Highland Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, was eager to get more involved. She felt she had exhausted earlier options for service — engagement in youth group, the Montreat Youth Conference Planning Team, and Presbyterian Youth Triennium. She was open to serve as a ruling elder as an opportunity to respond to a call she had been experiencing to take the next step into leadership within the church without needing to go to seminary.

¿Hacia dónde le lleva Dios?

October 15, 2024

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Hace unos años, la anciana gobernante Clara Harper, entonces miembro de la Iglesia Presbiteriana Highland de Louisville, Kentucky, estaba deseosa de involucrarse más. Sentía que había agotado las opciones anteriores de servicio: la participación en el grupo de jóvenes, el equipo de planificación de la Conferencia Juvenil de Montreat y el Trienio Presbiteriano de la Juventud. Estaba dispuesta a servir como anciana gobernante como una oportunidad para responder a un llamado que había estado experimentando para dar el siguiente paso hacia el liderazgo dentro de la iglesia sin necesidad de ir al seminario.

하나님이 인도하시는 곳은 어디인가요?

October 15, 2024

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몇 년 전, 당시 켄터키주 루이빌에 있는 하이랜드 장로교회의 사역 장로였던 클라라 하퍼는 더 많이 참여하고 싶어 했습니다. 그녀는 청소년 그룹, 몬트리올 청소년 컨퍼런스 기획팀, 장로교 청소년 수련회 등 이전에 봉사할 수 있는 기회가 모두 소진되었다고 느꼈습니다. 그녀는 신학교에 진학하지 않고도 교회 내에서 리더십을 발휘할 수 있는 다음 단계로 나아가고 싶다는 소명에 응답할 수 있는 기회로 장로로 봉사하고자 했습니다.

October 15, 2024

The hike to Diamond Lake is only 3 miles from the trailhead, but for pastors and leaders immersed in the hard work of organizing new communities, the silent beauty of the wilderness and the sparkling mountain lake where the group set up camp is a universe all its own.

October 15, 2024

As Presbyterians seek to faithfully understand what it means to be called to serve as ruling elders and deacons in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) stands ready to help.

October 14, 2024

Mary Lou Harris has been working in the garden at Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church (MWPC) since 1996, so she knows a thing or two about produce.

October 14, 2024

The Presbyterian Association of Musicians has received a $1,209,973 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish a new program, “Child of Blessing: Growing Faith in Worship.”