CALENDAR CHECK
May 31-June 14: Santa Fe, N.M.: Cross Cultural Ministries for Seminary Students & Pastors. Ghost Ranch
A recent gathering of Christian educators celebrated the 25-year partnership of Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the South Central Region of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators (SCRAPCE) by looking toward the future and a holistic understanding of the tasks and challenges of Christian formation in the 21st century.
Presbyterian minister James Atwood knows what it’s like to be shut down on the issue of gun violence.
When a Presbyterian pastor starts to struggle, often that’s something he or she doesn’t want to broadcast.
LOUISVILLE – As the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues to feel the impact of declining membership and revenue, 49 employees at the denomination’s national headquarters have lost their jobs.
LOUISVILLE – What role should the General Assembly Mission Council play in commenting on overtures or other business coming to the General Assembly?
LOUISVILLE – The General Assembly Mission Council voted unanimously, with no debate, today (May 14) to approve the budgets for 2011 and 2012 for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
PHILADELPHIA — The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has appointed John G. McFayden as church relations executive.
LOUISVILLE – With another round of layoffs looming for the national staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) – making this the sixth time the PC(USA) has reduced its national staff since 2002 – denominational leaders have had significant experience blending bleak numbers with a positive twist.
Presbyterians so far have given $9.57 million to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for relief work in Haiti following the earthquake in January.
Cape Town (ENI) — The World Cup soccer tournament is due to kick-off on June 11 in South Africa and the president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Buti Tlhagale, has warned that sex trafficking will increase in the country during the event.
Rob Moreland, Dale Martin, and Kelly Buell, all members of PDA's national response team, were busy discussing how to tackle this disaster as news came in that 43 counties in Tennessee are now officially disaster areas.
LOUISVILLE – The hard work is still ahead – later this week, the General Assembly Mission Council will vote on the mission budgets for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for 2011 and 2012, including layoffs expected to total about 45 employees from the denomination’s national staff.
GENEVA (ENI) — The general secretary of the World Council of Churches has joined peers in the Middle East in expressing concerns about the escalating rate of violence against Christians in northern Iraq, following attacks on buses carrying Christians in Mosul, in which a shopkeeper was killed.
Cynthia Campbell, the president of McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago for the past 15 years, has announced that she will retire by the end of 2011.
DUE WEST, S.C. — The legal maneuverings over governance of Erskine College and Seminary continue as attorneys responded to the recent appeal by the General Synod of Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of a preliminary injunction ordered last month by a circuit court judge.
LOUISVILLE — A Philadelphia pastor, James A. Belle, is the fifth candidate for moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
LOUISVILLE - No way around it: this will be a painful week for the national staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
LOUISVILLE — In the five and a half years since its creation, the Colombia Accompaniment Program has been ever-evolving, adapting as organizers..
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Harpeth Presbyterian Church was crawling with members May 3, cleaning up after the nearby Harpeth River overflowed its banks Saturday and Sunday, flooding this historic church in Brentwood, Tenn.
Worship with a North Korean house church
PYONGYANG — Shoes are removed before entering the modest fourth-floor apartment in an otherwise drab high-rise in this North Korean capital city. The bare-wood living room floor is lined with simple straw mats.
Master seamstress sews together details of 219th General Assembly
MINNEAPOLIS – "The opening service July 4 at the Minneapolis Convention Center will be 8,000 worshippers strong," said the Rev. Paula Sanders, and will demonstrate "the best of being Presbyterian — a liturgically correct service that is creative and inclusive."
NASHVILLE — After the historic flooding here last weekend, clean-up has begun.
A fourth candidate – Eric Nielsen, a pastor from Wisconsin – has been endorsed to stand for moderator of the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The Presbytery of Northern Waters, meeting May 6, unanimously endorsed Nielsen, who is pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Eau Claire, Wis., a congregation of about 250 members.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ENI/RNS) — The U.S. government is not doing enough to protect religious freedoms abroad, the independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has said in its annual report to Congress and the White House.
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