Nairobi, Kenya (ENI) Christian leaders from around the world
have pledged support for Southern Sudan, which is set to
become an independent state July 9.
Bangalore, India (ENI) Christians and other minority leaders in
Pakistan have spoken out against the government's move to relegate issues
regarding religious minorities to provincial governments in the
Muslim-majority nation, instead of dealing with them on a national level.
Geneva (ENI) United Nations relief agencies launched global emergency appeals today seeking new aid funds to help 10 million people, including 2 million severely malnourished children, in countries in the
Before the lights were barely out from Big Tent 2011, that’s the kind of complex question denominational leaders began digging into – in a quick, less than 24-hour confab held at a particularly delicate time in the denomination’s life.
Indianapolis (PNS) Many of the models of how we organize the church are dying, said the Rev. Susan Andrews, former General Assembly moderator and executive presbyter for Hudson River Presbytery, introducing a panel of innovative church leaders July 1 at the Healthy Ministry Conference opening luncheon here at the Big Tent.
Indianapolis (PNS) When Cynthia Campbell was growing up, she never experienced a woman in a leadership role in the pulpit of her home church in Pasadena, Calif.
Indianapolis (PNS) About five miles away from the excitement of Big Tent on the afternoon of July 1, a small group of Presbyterians worked with picks, shovels and wheelbarrows to dig a hole about six inches deep, eight feet wide, and 20 feet long. The area will eventually serve as the floor of a greenhouse made from an old bus stop shelter.
INDIANAPOLIS (PNS)In a time of slow recovery from the recession and
growing income inequality among American workers, Presbyterians must
not forget that God also has some ideas about economic theory and income
distribution.
INDIANAPOLIS (PNS) Two of the scheduled speakers for World Mission
Matters’ Friday (July 1) plenary at Big Tent here were missing.
Indianapolis (PNS) “Jesus was cross-cultural. In Christ, we should be too.”
Indianapolis (PNS) On July 1, the Big Tent opened its flaps to a wide range of conversations, including a discussion of evangelism and church growth in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
INDIANAPOLIS (PNS) This is a time of remarkable mission work, but it’s
also a time of rapid decentralization, said the Rev. Hunter Farrell, speaking
at a World Mission Matters lunch as part of Big Tent here.
Indianapolis (PNS) The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s National Multicultural Church Conference celebrated a decade of denominational multicultural ministry on July 1 during the conference’s first plenary session at the denomination’s Big Tent event.
INDIANAPOLIS (PNS) Fund-raising can be reduced to “two simple
words, relationships and listening,” Bill Enright told the Presbyterian
Communicators Network at its gathering July at the Big Tent here.
Indianapolis (PNS) God expects just one thing of the PC(USA)’s 100,000 elders: to change the world.
Indianapolis (PNS) Being an elder isn’t a task or a project. It’s “a perpetual calling that becomes our identity.”
INDIANAPOLIS (PNS) Taking off from the Big Tent theme, “Grow
Christ’s Church Deep and Wide,” the Peacemaking Conference was called
on to consider its theme, “Growing Christ’s Peace.”
INDIANAPOLIS (PNS) Diverse models of multicultural ministry were
showcased during a panel discussion at the National Multicultural Church
Conference July 1 at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Big Tent event.
INDIANAPOLIS – The task of Christians today, living in a time of wild change, may be “not to force that history forward. Our task is to stay awake.”
INDIANAPOLIS – African-American Presbyterians must help create a “mass movement” to overcome what Marian Wright Edelman calls the “cradle to prison pipeline” that has decimated black communities in America, a leading educator told the National Black Presbyterian Caucus (NBPC) today (June 30) at its 41st annual convention here.
INDIANAPOLIS (PNS) Ten seconds after a visitor registers online with the Diversity Leadership Network at the Big Tent, Monica Cabell’s smart phone beeps.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (PNS) Two months ago, the Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, moderator of the 218th General Assembly (2008), invited Presbyterians to record a short video expressing their hopes and dreams for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
INDIANAPOLIS (PNS) Faced with feeding a large crowd with just a few loaves and fishes, the disciples hear these words from Jesus: “You give them something to eat.”
Indianapolis (PNS) Zenophilia, which means “love of stranger,” is on the board. So is Agora, a Greek word suggesting being in the marketplace of ideas.
Indianapolis (PNS) What are the words that you believe describe the characteristics and qualities of leaders?
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