Like other conference centers, Ghost Ranch has had to keep its doors closed throughout most of the COVID-19 pandemic. Small windows in..
Rosedale Gardens Presbyterian Church — Livonia, Michigan Our church is known as the Mission Station. Through the passionate leadership of pastors and..
Covenant Presbyterian Church — Palo Alto, California Over the more than five decades that my family and I have been members of..
Students often say Davis & Elkins College feels like home. That’s because the people they meet and the relationships they form are..
30 years ago — January 7, 1991 Meeting in Portland, Ore., the National Council of Churches’ General Board celebrated its 40th anniversary..
Mills River Presbyterian Church — Mills River, North Carolina When COVID-19 restrictions closed down Mills River Presbyterian Church, church leadership looked for..
20 years ago — December 18-25, 2000 It has been a centuries-old unwritten rule that at Christmas a ceasefire be observed in..
Unionville Presbyterian Church — Unionville, Pennsylvania When COVID-19 closed the doors of the church building, we looked for ways to keep the..
10 years ago — December 13, 2010 Tres Rios Presbytery opened its 89th meeting with a communion service at the fence between..
Second Presbyterian Church — Waynesboro, Virginia We’re a small church with a membership of about 70 located in a low income, transient..
Carter-Westminster United Presbyterian Church — Skokie, Illinois I am a totally blind individual from birth — no color and no light perception...
80 years ago — December 4, 1940 It is with inevitable and irrepressible sadness that we come to celebrate Armistice Day in..
70 years ago — October 9, 1950 “Word has been received here of the almost complete destruction of Chosen Christian University, a..
Central Presbyterian Church — Downingtown, Pennsylvania At its May meeting, the church’s Mission Committee launched a “Masks for Neighbors” project. Emma..
Last year, the Presbyterian Women of the United States gave $100,000 to complete the purchase of a retreat center property run by..
An evening service included this message in the bulletin: “Remember in your prayers the many discouraged people who are sick of life...
60 years ago — October 10, 1960 During the past several months college and university students in the United States, both [African-American]..
Redwoods Presbyterian Church — Larkspur, California Like many churches in the COVID-19 era, Redwoods Presbyterian Church is meeting for worship by Zoom. ..
50 years ago — August 24, 1970 “One hundred years ago women voted for the first time in American elections in Utah..
Shelvis and Nancy Smith-Mather report on progress in South Sudan after the terrible destruction of work in earlier years. Special work is..
A woman in Mississippi told her pastor, “You do such a beautiful job at funerals. You sound so caring.” And the pastor..
First Presbyterian Church — Austin, Texas First Presbyterian Church hosts a little-known treasure: It charters Boy Scout Troop 1, which was organized in..
Most Presbyterians don’t know that we have mission workers in Greece, but we do! Nadia Ayoub, mission co-worker serving there, reports that..
An older woman who had been extremely active in the church told the pastor that when she died she wanted all female..
40 years ago — August 11, 1980 Two hundred years ago, in 1780, Robert Raikes, the publisher of the Gloucester (England) Journal..
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