With the fall kickoff to the church program year fresh in mind, my thoughts keep coming back to the Protestant idea of the priesthood of all believers. This doctrine teaches that because of Jesus Christ, there is no need for someone to act as a mediator between the people and God. Everyone is just as spiritual, just as capable of speaking to God, and just as called to deliver God’s message to the world. Everyone is equally called to do God’s work and to minister to God’s people.
The history of organizing Latino Hispanic Presbyterian Women dates to the 1930s, when small groups of women gathered in their churches to discuss women’s issues and help with the work of the church. Over the years, this work broadened, and the groups joined other groups of women in presbyteries and started to work with groups of women at the synod level.
Faith-based organizations have been at the forefront of calls to accelerate HIV testing and treatment for children and adolescents. As gaps in infection and treatment between adults and children have become more apparent, there are now efforts to “super fast-track” services for children. But will they be enough?
It’s Friday night in Holguín and the streets of this city in northeastern Cuba are filled with noisy revelers — just like bustling metropolises everywhere. Music is in the air, motorcyclists roar up and down the street, people laugh and talk.
In each of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s partner relationships in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, women in leadership roles lead with grace, strength, vision, collaboration and energy, despite immense challenges and pressures. The guests of honor of the General Assembly of the National Evangelical (Presbyterian) Synod of Syria and Lebanon (NESSL)
Quickly, kids! We need to get going or we’ll miss the service! This was my plea one Easter morning as I ushered my children out the door to make it to church. My husband and I served in different churches and worshiping together was impossible. However, on this morning he was the guest preacher at a church that had a different worship schedule from ours. We were thrilled. Our family could celebrate together.
Presbyterian congregations in the U.S. are learning about the struggles and successes of church work in Venezuela this fall from the moderator of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Venezuela visits. The Rev. Zulema Garcia is a pastor of the Western Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Venezuela.
Why do we settle for less? September 25, 2018 Which version of Jesus do we settle for? A wise philosopher? A meek and mild but constant caregiver? A macho conqueror?… Read more »
Bringing communities together “in faithful pursuit of justice, service and reconciliation” is one of the goals of David H. Crawford, the new president of McCormick Theological Seminary. Crawford, who had served as interim president, was the Board of Trustees’ unanimous choice to serve as the seminary’s 11th president.
For the first time ever, representatives from the five “ages and stages” ministry associations that work in Christian formation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) were in the same room, at the same time, with the same goal: to figure out how they might more collaboratively work together with the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA).
