ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (PNS) Although the term tentmaking — serving as a minister while earning a living in another field — is often only applied to church leaders, all Christians should be tentmakers, said the Rev. Dan Kimball, speaking at the Engage Conference for new church development leaders here Aug. 10.
LOUISVILLE (PNS) Sixty-eight young people will gather at Stony Point Conference Center later this month for orientation as Young Adult Volunteers (YAVs) for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
BAJA CALIFORNIA, Mexico (Special to PNS) Twenty years ago, the ideal candidate for a church-planting pastor in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was a 34-year-old married male with two or more kids, a dog and a mortgage. He was a charismatic leader who could draw people to himself, according to research done at the time.
Written by Jack Haberer, Outlook editor Friday, 12 August 2011 14:55
The Minneapolis gathering of nearly 2,000 Presbyterians on August 25 and 26 looks to be a potentially historic event, perhaps the beginning of yet another denominational division to rock the Presbyterian world. Yet leaders of what formerly called itself “Fellowship PC(USA)” and now is using the name the “Fellowship of Presbyterians” are acknowledging that unity among its own supporters will be tested, given that the participants come to Minneapolis with a diverse set of expectations of what they hope will result.
JOPLIN, Mo. (General Assembly Mission Council) The scores of spring tornadoes that swept through Eastern and Midwestern states this year left widespread devastation, nowhere worse than in Joplin, Mo.
Louisville, Ky. (Office of the General Assembly) I am now a little more than halfway through my term as Moderator of the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). What have I learned over this past year?
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Special to PNS) “The extent of the damage is just stunning,” said General Assembly Mission Council Executive Director Linda Valentine after a recent visit to Tuscaloosa and Culllman, Ala., with a group of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) leaders.
WASHINGTON (RNS) Christian missionaries should renounce all “deception and coercive means” of winning converts, according to an agreement released June 28 by a World Evangelical Alliance, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican, which together represent 90 percent of the world’s Christian population.
Landon Whitsitt, vice-moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a pastor from Missouri, has been elected as the new executive and stated clerk of the Synod of Mid-America.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Charlotte’s Presbyterian seminary has broken ground on a campus in the heart of the SouthPark area — a $6.5 million development that will give the school its first permanent home.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Office of the General Assembly) Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), says he is "deepy troubled" by the deficit-reduction package that has been signed into federal law.
STORM LAKE, Iowa (Special to PNS) When Rick MacArthur turned 8 years old, he asked his family to throw a birthday party not for him, but for his hero, rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Buddy Holly.
Geneva (ENI) Christian advocacy groups are among a 28-strong international coalition calling for North Korea, criticized by many for its human rights abuses and nuclear threats, to step down from the presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament (UNCD).
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission has dismissed a challenge to the ordination of Scott Anderson, which means that Anderson – a gay man who set aside his ordination in 1990 after congregants publicly revealed his sexual orientation – may once again be ordained by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Jerusalem (ENI) Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders met in Jerusalem July 18 at the Interfaith Climate Change Forum to raise awareness about the vital role religion can play on environmental issues.
Geneva (ENI) Different faiths need to do more to promote human solidarity, said Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), in the aftermath of the bomb attack and mass killings in his native Norway.
STORM LAKE, Iowa (Special to Presbyterian News Service) Anna Carter Florence, who teaches preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary, says she’s very interested in how the people of God talk about God.
Trondheim, Norway (ENI) A Norwegian bishop addressing the recent bombing and shooting attacks in his country said Norway has "countered this insane terrorism by demonstrating love and solidarity."
On the afternoon of Sept. 22, 2001, Carolyn wrote “O God, Our Words Cannot Express,”a hymn that was used by many churches on that evening and in the days that followed. It was published in the Presbyterian Outlook at the time, and was mentioned in USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, lots of magazines and was on national PBS-TV twice in the USA and the BBC-TV in the United Kingdom.
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission won’t release rulings until perhaps Aug. 2 in two cases involving whether particular lesbian and gay candidates – Lisa Larges and Scott Anderson – can be ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
