For Katherine Hamilton, helping employers navigate benefits decisions is personal. At 26, as a full-time graduate student, she learned she had cancer. The Affordable Care Act didn’t exist, and her student health insurance didn’t cover treatment because it didn’t have to. Read more »
July 25, 2019
Board of Pensions spotlight: Meet Katherine Hamilton
For Katherine Hamilton, helping employers navigate benefits decisions is personal. At 26, as a full-time graduate student, she learned she had cancer. The Affordable Care Act didn’t exist, and her student health insurance didn’t cover treatment because it didn’t have to. Read more »
Becca Stevens, one of the keynote speakers for the 1001 New Worshiping Communities and Vital Congregations national gathering coming up October 14-16 in Kansas City, Mo., remembers how she felt when she started a residential community for women who have survived tracking, prostitution and addiction. 
Just as one country became two with South Sudan’s independence in 2011, Nile Theological College, offering both Arabic and English curriculum tracks, also split into two campuses in two countries the same year. 
For Madison McKinney, attending the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women was an “incredible experience.”
“To hear all of the different languages and to meet people from all over the world was a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” she said. 
The sanctuary at Unión Cristiana Presbyterian Church in Santiago, Chile was full the evening of Sunday, July 21, as representatives of all four presbyteries of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Chile (IEPeCh) gathered to give thanks to God for 150 years of mission partnership with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). 
In 2015, Pope Francis proclaimed Sept. 1 as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, joining Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople, who earlier extended an invitation for Christians to offer “every year on this date prayers and supplications to the Maker of all, both as thanksgiving for the great gift of creation and as petitions for its protection and salvation.” 
When many South Koreans think of their neighbors to the north, the phrases that come to mind are not so neighborly: “horned monsters” or “a demon to be removed,” writes the Rev. Moon-Sook Lee, who has held several ecumenical and Presbyterian posts in South Korean over the past three decades. 
Fishing adventure with dad teaches birthday girl to consider the needs of others August 28, 2019 In her latest book, “Petra’s Pier Picnic,” author Phyllis Vos Wezeman introduces readers… 
“We’re all looking for bread for the journey,” said the Rev. Keatan King, associate pastor at St. Philip Presbyterian Church in Houston. “CREDO gives you that.”
King was among 16 women at the CREDO conference for recently ordained pastors held in September in Canton, North Carolina. 
If there wasn’t an organization like Creation Justice Ministries, Presbyterian Hunger Program coordinator the Rev. Rebecca Barnes says her ministry would want to create one.
Likewise, Creation Justice Ministries (CJM) executive director Shantha Ready Alonso says the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has played a major role in her organization’s establishment and growth.