Emma Rigler’s mom is a Presbyterian pastor, and Emma and her siblings grew up in PC(USA) congregations. Her Christian formation has involved Presbyterian church schools, camps, youth events and mission trips. Read more »
July 24, 2024
Minute for Mission: College and Young Adult Sunday
Emma Rigler’s mom is a Presbyterian pastor, and Emma and her siblings grew up in PC(USA) congregations. Her Christian formation has involved Presbyterian church schools, camps, youth events and mission trips. Read more »
“Lights. Camera. Action.” Those words echoed in the Presbyterian Center from July 15-19 as it hosted the 2024 Upcoming Storytellers Summer Youth Camp. 
The Rev. Sarah Dickinson, pastor of Discovery Presbyterian Church in Omaha, Nebraska, and the eloquent preacher during Tuesday worship at Synod School, riffed so well on Psalm 133 that the precious oil running down the beard and over the collar of Aaron got her and other Synod Schoolers thinking about product. 
A longstanding practice at Synod School is to offer a talk-back session with the convocation speaker each evening. At the start of his talk on Tuesday, Dr. Corey Schlosser-Hall, this year’s convocation speaker, shared some of what he learned during Monday evening’s talk-back. 
Beginning in 2016, the Presbytery of Philadelphia began shepherding the congregations of three struggling churches — First African Presbyterian, Good Shepherd Presbyterian and Calvin Presbyterian — in a process that eventually led to the formation of a new, vibrant church: New River Presbyterian Church. 
From June 11–14, the 2024 National Gathering of UKirk Collegiate Ministries celebrated that there is a good God for all and how the message of love and the goodness of Creation has been spread throughout history 
“It’s very easy to lose hope in a world so dominated by oppression and darkness. And yet, the work of the Holy Spirit is alive and thriving at the 2024 Montreat Youth Conference!” said the Rev. Danny Dieth, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Georgia, and an adult leader for the Flint River Presbytery youth group that attended the annual Montreat Youth Conferences in Montreat, North Carolina. 
Channeling Marian Wright Edelman, the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), the Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson resonates with her reasoning: “My theory of change,” she’d say, “is the Parable of the Sower.” 
A recent Wednesday Chapel Service for the national staff of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) focused on the recorded personal stories of five refugees living and working in the United States.
Huai Pal, a Burmese refugee who came to the United States 13 years ago, recalled the challenge of her mother’s hospitalization one month following the family’s arrival. “We were lost and hopeless,” Pal recalled. After completing her studies at the University of Louisville, she landed a job as a caseworker at Kentucky Refugee Ministries, “where I can leverage my experience and language skills to help other refugees.” 
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has affirmed since 2016 a commitment to mission and ministry as guided by Matthew 25. That commitment, to building vital congregations, dismantling structural racism, and eradicating systemic poverty, is meant to move us into deeper understandings of who we are called to be as followers of Jesus Christ and how we are called to love our neighbors.