Worshiping Communities Archives

On The Way Church celebrates a year of ‘great blessing’

Posted November 14th, 2018

During Sunday’s one-year anniversary celebration of On The Way Church, the Rev. Rafael Viana began to see a convergence of many things.

Sanctuary at dinner church, monthly pub talks

Posted October 9th, 2018

The Rev. Laura Bentley, pastor of Sanctuary Faith Community, felt called to be a pastor — but she had the best pastoral conversations sitting at bars with people over food and beer.

Couple dreams of starting new worshiping community in coffee shop that employs people with disabilities

Posted October 5th, 2018

Seeing in color again By Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service PITTSBURGH – When Brett Foote decided to go to Princeton Theological Seminary in the fall of 2016, his wife… Read more »

Potential 1001 New Worshiping Community leaders identify gifts, potential blind spots

Posted October 3rd, 2018

When the Rev. Sarah Lee attended a recent Discerning Missional Leadership (DML) assessment here, she believed she was answering God’s call.

Pastor, congregation offer shelter, food and hope in Florence’s aftermath

Posted September 24th, 2018

As the eyewall of Hurricane Florence passed over the Rev. Dr. Doug Cushing’s home in Leland, North Carolina, on the morning of Friday, Sept. 14, it was as if someone “had opened a firehose.”

College coffeehouse provides safe space for race conversation

Posted September 10th, 2018

When racially insensitive photos surfaced at Cal Poly University in the spring, Front Porch, a coffeehouse and 1001 worshiping community in San Luis Obispo, California, began engaging students — many of whom were disgusted by what they saw.

Trinity Presbytery embraces Vital Congregations initiative

Posted September 7th, 2018

When Phyllis Sanders saw a recent article in South Carolina’s newspaper, The State, titled Losing Faith, she considered it a godsend.

10 worshiping communities awarded Mission Program Grants

Posted August 31st, 2018

The Presbyterian Mission Agency recently approved Mission Program Grants to 10 new worshiping communities. The Mission Development Resources Committee announced the following recipients:

‘New Creation’ provides a space for the previously unchurched

Posted August 29th, 2018

The Rev. Keith Gunter, pastor of the newest chartered PC(USA) congregation, New Creation Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee, finally had a moment to reflect on what has been ‘a whirlwind of a summer.’

Killed by police as he ran away, Pittsburgh teen Antwon Rose would’ve been 18 today

Posted July 12th, 2018

On June 19, Antwon Rose was looking forward to his upcoming birthday. Until his life was cut short by police bullets fired into his back, as he ran unarmed, from police in East Pittsburgh.