Special Offerings

Links of Love inspires connections and giving

The Presbyterian Giving Catalog launched Links of Love recently as part of a special Giving Challenge. The Links of Love activity is aimed toward recognizing the power and impact of individual gifts when joined with others by creating a paper chain that visually represents Presbyterian generosity.

Detroit youth leadership group among four SDOP funded projects

Teenagers often find winter weather a great excuse to stay home. But an early-season snowfall didn’t deter the Youth Advisory Board of Detroit’s Urban Neighborhood Initiatives (UNI) from their regularly scheduled Tuesday evening meeting in Mid-November.

‘It’s a Wonderful Church’

Filmmaker, pastor and presbytery executive the Rev. Ryan Landino closes his most recent “Pastor Ryan’s Sixty Second Sermons” video, which he calls “It’s a Wonderful Church,” with a variation on the capper to a certain Jimmy Stewart holiday film standard: “Teacher says every time a church pays its per capita, an angel gets their wings.”

Menaul School helps young people succeed

When Tony and Lilia Acabal were determining where to send their children to school, they both carried deep memories of the struggles they faced years ago as new immigrants. 

Congregation fights hunger in greater St. Louis

As a Hunger Action Congregation, Faith Des Peres Presbyterian Church is taking aim at food insecurity in greater St. Louis by providing food for school children and other vulnerable populations.