LOUISVILLE – Sunday worship started at the 2009 Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women with pomp and ceremony, and an appreciation of the role that Presbyterian Women plays in congregations and around the world.
LOUISVILLE – The theme of the 2009 Presbyterian Women Churchwide Gathering – which has brought about 2,500 people to Kentucky for five days of worship, conversation, and communion July 11-15 – is “God Will Do Wonders Among You.”
ATLANTA – “As the Blues Brothers said, we’re on a mission from God,” said Robert Chestnut, in a workshop entitled “Growing the Church Deep and Wide: Spiritual Practices of Multicultural Outreach” June 12 here at the 2009 National Multicultural Conference, part of the first-ever Big Tent event of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
ATLANTA — What does a church need when it gets serious about truly becoming a multicultural congregation? Strategic planning is the first tool it should pull from the box, two experts on multicultural church development said here June 12.
ATLANTA — “A healthy church is one that moves forward, looking ahead through the windshield and occasionally checking the rearview mirror,” George Goodman told the Healthy Ministry Conference. “It is aware of what is going around it.”
ATLANTA — Peacemakers do not stay in the safe places. They go to where the war is, to where the tensions are, Mark Lomax, keynote speaker, told more than 100 Presbyterians meeting here for the 2009 Presbyterian Peacemaking Conference.
ATLANTA — “How we treat people should never be up for discussion,” Julia A. Thorne, the immigration attorney who serves the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as manager for immigration issues, told a workshop on immigration/justice issues during the recent Big Tent event.
The moving truck was nearly full, the family pick-up truck was gassed and ready to roll in the morning, and the seminary was just three days away from announcing her successor.
MONTREAT — “It’s time to step into being the church that we’ve been called into,” Moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow told a gathering of younger Presbyterian pastors June 8 at the opening worship service of the 2009 alt7 Conference here.
Editor’s note: Last fall the Outlook published a three-part series of op-ed essays by Erwin C. Barron that elevated the role of experience in Biblical interpretation.
LOUISVILLE - Evelyn Bonner, whose many years of commitment to minority education took her to Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) racial ethnic schools from Mississippi to Alaska and earned her a Woman of Faith Award from the denomination, died July 4 in Marshall, Texas.
LOUISVILLE — A new generation of Cuban church leaders, who were not even born at the time of Castro's revolution in 1959, are leading rapid growth in the Presbyterian-Reformed Church of Cuba (PRCC), the denomination's general secretary says.
Robert L. Short, 76, of Little Rock, Ark., Presbyterian minister and best-selling author, died July 6. A memorial service was held July 8 at First Church, Little Rock. Short had moved to Little Rock in 2001 to start a new church, “Christianity Without Doom and Gloom.”
Richmond Blake is the 2009 recipient of The Presbyterian Outlook Church-College Partnership Award in recognition of his essay on the assigned topic, “How my education at a PC(USA)-related college has prepared me for significant service and leadership.” Blake received a B.A. in political science from Davidson College in North Carolina last month.
Editor’s note: Last fall the Outlook published a three-part series of op-ed essays by Erwin C. Barron that elevated the role of experience in Biblical interpretation.
Kenneth Cooper, the physician who coined the word “aerobics,” and one of the world’s leading experts on physical fitness, has often commented that of all the professionals he sees, pastors are in the worse physical shape.
The Bridge-makers’ Retreat, sponsored by Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS), is a student initiative geared toward reconciliation at the seminary and beyond.
CHICAGO — Over the years, disagreements between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation and the General Assembly Mission Council (GAMC) have sometimes made the gulf between the two agencies seem far wider than the one-mile-across Ohio River that separates them.
PHILADELPHIA — After completing a two-year review of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Medical Plan for church workers, the denominations Board of Pensions (BOP) has approved numerous “modifications” designed to make the plan simpler and more understandable.
LOUISVILLE — A memorial service for William Ross Forbes, who was vice-president of church relations and corporate secretary for the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has been scheduled for July 7 at Westfield (N.J.) Church.
