LOUISVILLE — Leaders of new immigrant ministries in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will gather here this week with representatives of the church’s middle governing bodies to talk about how to extend and strengthen the denomination’s outreach to new immigrants.
The District Court for Tulsa County, Okla. today (September 9) granted summary judgment in favor of Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and denied the motion for summary judgment of Kirk of the Hills Church in Tulsa, Judge Jefferson Sellers enforced the decision of the Presbytery's Administrative Commission and ordered Kirk of the Hills to convey the church's real and personal property to Eastern Oklahoma Presbytery (https://www.eokpresbytery.org/.)
I must have Beijing on my mind. But if you can stand a sports metaphor, church management is more like a basketball game than a gymnastics exercise.
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 2007. Hb., 203 pp., $24.95.
At the close of the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) the moderator, Bruce Reyes-Chow, invited us to stand and sing a closing hymn. The crowd, which had dwindled down to just a few hundred, obediently stood, but in an awkward silence. There was no one to lead us.
The recent Outlook article, “Doing good, doing better: Short-term mission more than a trip,” by Leslie Scanlon (July 7, 2008) raised issues anyone who takes mission trips seriously has struggled with. As a Christian educator, I have been leading mission trips from churches for more than 15 years. Here are some of the conclusions I have reached.
You may be surprised that missionary could be in need of rehabilitating, but some readers will have a visceral aversion to hearing this word. It is time to reconsider what we call those who represent the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in international cross-cultural mission.
Spike Coleman, a pastor from Charleston, S.C., has seen what a lot of other Presbyterians have seen: the neighborhood around his church is changing.
Compelling calls for Presbyterians to move beyond attitudes and practices that hinder active mission involvement came from numerous speakers and seminar leaders at the third annual gathering of the Presbyterian Global Fellowship, August 14-16 in Long Beach, Calif. Approximately 1,000 persons attended.
So where does that road go that’s paved with good intentions?
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Is George Lucas finally getting to do a “Star Wars” movie, with all the special effects he wants, without having to mess with the human element at all?
To the member churches of the Caribbean and North American Area Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, its steering committee, heads of Communions, ecumenical officers, delegates, CANACOM partners, WARC executive committee members residing in this region:
LOUISVILLE — (PNS) This past month was full of adventure.
LOUISVILLE — Hurricane Gustav ripped the roof from a Presbyterian church north of Baton Rouge, La., and a manse in Natchez, Miss., was heavily damaged by falling trees.
PHILADELPHIA — The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has announced that it will continue to offer the Mayo Clinic Health Assessment, a benefit for active Medical Plan members and spouses designed to encourage members and their families to engage in preventive healthcare, thereby improving their overall health and helping contain healthcare costs.
Bangalore, India — (ENI) Christian groups have expressed dismay at attempts by the government of India's southern Karnataka state to take action against hundreds of church educational institutions after they closed for a day to protest at ongoing violence against Christians in eastern Orissa state.
(PNS) Elizabeth Andrews, a well-known Atlanta educator and widow of late Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Stated Clerk James E. Andrews, died suddenly Aug. 27 of a massive infection.
What does the future hold for the high school students in your family, your church, your neighborhood? You can help them choose a college or university that will nurture their souls and ennoble their activities while informing their minds.
LOUISVILLE — Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) leaders were still working Tuesday (Sept. 2) to assess Presbyterian-related damage from Hurricane Gustav, which roared from the Gulf of Mexico into southern Louisiana on Monday as a category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 110 mph.
(ENI)--Nearly two years after five Amish girls were killed in a grisly Pennsylvania school shooting, Anabaptist experts at nearby Elizabethtown College field a constant stream of questions from around the world about the religious group.
The floods in Iowa didn’t come in one dramatic, before-and-after moment. The rain kept coming, the water kept rising, and downriver, the trouble passed on from town to town to town.
Sister elder, brother deacon, do you get it? Do you understand how radical it is for you to have been ordained to your position of leadership?
(PNS) Theodora Grace Jackson, 84, a recipient of this year’s Women of Faith Award at the recent 218th General Assembly, died July 27 in Brewster, N.Y. A memorial service was held July 30 at First Church of Katonah, N.Y.
Why have such a conference?
I anticipated that question might be on the minds of many of those who gathered for the first-ever National Elders Conference in Nashville, Tenn., in August 2007.
The position of elder is the oldest active office still being used in the Christian church today. Although the apostleship no doubt precedes it in prestige, power, and antiquity, it did not remain a permanent office since it was limited to those who had a direct commission from the risen Jesus himself and had unique gifts from the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:1–26; 1 Cor. 12:1–11, 29).
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