An already bad situation in the eastern portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is being exacerbated by ethnic rivalries and another outbreak of Ebola, but the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its partner are supporting those who are emotionally and physically wounded. Read more »
June 26, 2019
Violence and Ebola outbreaks plague Eastern Congo
An already bad situation in the eastern portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is being exacerbated by ethnic rivalries and another outbreak of Ebola, but the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its partner are supporting those who are emotionally and physically wounded. Read more »
루이빌 – 한국 전쟁은 1950년 6월 25일 대부분의 사람들에게는 휴식의 날인 일요일에 시작되었다.
2019년 6월 23일 주일아침에 인디애나폴리스 한인장로교회는 한국전쟁 참전 용사들과 그 가족들을 주일 예배와 친교로 초대하였다. 이 연합예배는 한국 전쟁에서 추운 겨울과 더운 여름의 피와 땀을 나눈 사람들의 희생에 감사하며 10년 넘게 한국전쟁 기념일로 지켜온 교회의 연례 행사이다. 
The Rev. Mary Brueggemann, a retired United Church of Christ pastor, began the Presbyterian Association of Musicians conference Bible study on Justice in the New Testament Tuesday with a quote about the Old Testament. 
As reports of inhumane conditions in child detention facilities near the United States-Mexico border surfaced over the weekend, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) staff working on immigration and asylum issues, like many observers, were shocked and saddened. 
By grace, Synod of the Trinity staff became involved with the Community Responders Network in Central Pennsylvania last spring to support them in getting three reader’s theater-style skits around bias into video production.
By grace, we met Ann Van Dyke, the writer of those skits, and as we got to know her, we learned of her work in civil rights for the state of Pennsylvania for many years.
Out of her personal calling, Van Dyke offered to do some work with us around hate. 
As part of the first week of the 2019 Presbyterian Association of Musicians Conference being held at Montreat Conference Center, Adam Tice was about to deliver his first Routley Lecture.
Just before he began, he was telling a conference participant how he was going to speak about music and peace — and congregational singing and peacemaking.
“That person said, ‘Well, first you’re going to have to define what you mean by peace,’” Tice said. 
During six years in El Salvador as a mission co-worker with the Joining Hands Network, Kristi Van Nostran worked to bring people to a common table and create a network to support ongoing efforts around justice and food sovereignty. Now she is working with two Southern California presbyteries to once again walk alongside her Central American brothers and sisters. 
“Peace is not the absence of chaos, but the presence of hope.”
That was the message from the Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka Sunday evening during opening worship kicking off week two of the 2019 Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ worship and music conference being held at the Montreat Conference Center. 
The Racial Equity Advocacy Committee issued this statement Monday: