LOUISVILLE – They were preparing to head home from the 2009 Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women — home to Malawi and Thailand and South Dakota and destinations beyond. But not before holding closing worship July 15, all jazzed up with one-last-time-we’re-together energy.
“Remember when we were little and not supposed to talk back?” asked Cynthia Rigby of the 2,500 participants attending the Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women in worship July 14. Reflecting back on her childhood, she reminded those present that there surely were times to listen to her mom and dad.
(ENI/RNS)--The U.S. Episcopal Church yesterday (July 14) overwhelmingly voted to lift a three-year-old moratorium on consecrating gay and lesbian bishops, despite warnings that the ban was necessary to preserve unity in the wider Anglican Communion.
Episcopal News Service -- The House of Deputies of The Episcopal Church on July 14 addressed issues of church property litigation, a study of church communications, an agreement with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and new propers for Lesser Feasts and Fasts.
LOUISVILLE — The idea of international mission took on flesh-and-blood meaning on July 13 as the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) formally commissioned 20 international mission co-workers who will begin serving three-year terms.
LOUISVILLE —Educating folks about key issues is a part of the Presbyterian Women’s mission. So when members get a chance, they talk — about hunger, racism, tainted water, AIDS, poverty, the many forces that keep women discouraged and oppressed.
LOUISVILLE – Presbyterian Women has voted to incorporate as a separate non-profit corporation, which would have a “covenant relationship” with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) but would be a separate organization with control over its own finances and affairs.
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.”
Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (John 12:24)
ATLANTA – In some ways, these tumultuous days feel like a perfect storm for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
How big a tent does the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) need?
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.
Eric Hoey knows that Presbyterian evangelism isn’t working; he has every intention of reversing that.
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.
A client recently completed a report on best practices in Spiritual Development. It made me tired just to read it.
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.”
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