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Young Adult Volunteers

New Orleans Young Adult Volunteers respond to tribe impacted by Hurricane Ida

Posted September 23rd, 2021

Following hurricane Ida’s South Louisiana landfall late last month, the New Orleans Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) site turned a learning relationship with the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe in Terrebonne Parish into a service opportunity.

Transforming the Season of Peace into an art form

Posted September 13th, 2021

The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program’s Season of Peace has been enhanced this year by artists with something to say — or sing, or paint, or even throw, such as pottery — and it was Simon Doong’s task on Monday to discuss the impact artists are having on Presbyterians subscribing to the Season of Peace videos and spoken word.

Peruvian Young Adult Volunteers are blazing new trails for the program

Posted August 26th, 2021

Once again the Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) Program is breaking new ground.

New YAV class will be commissioned Sunday in virtual ceremony

Posted August 20th, 2021

The Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) program will commission 33 members of the 2021-22 class virtually Sunday. The ceremony will be carried live on the Young Adult Volunteer Facebook page at 4 p.m. Eastern Time.

Forums slated for Black Millennials

Posted August 9th, 2021

The African American Intercultural Congregational Support ministry announces its inaugural Black Millennials and the Church forum. The online event will begin at 7 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, September 9.

Pentecost Offering nurtures youth and at-risk children

Posted May 18th, 2021

The Church’s annual Pentecost Offering supports ministries that help children at risk, youth and young adults through the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

Amazing Grace Smith!

Posted May 10th, 2021

It’s truly a ‘virtual world’ when someone born and raised in South Carolina can work full-time in Portland, Maine, while also serving as a virtual Young Adult Volunteer fellow with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in Louisville, Kentucky.

Ministry at the intersection of faith, race and justice

Posted May 4th, 2021

As a student of social and health psychology at Presbyterian-related Davidson College, from which she graduated in 2019, Langley Hoyt knew her own mind best of all — not to mention her hands and feet.

What can be done to resolve the nation’s gun violence problem?

Posted April 28th, 2021

Near the end of Tuesday’s episode of “Just Talk Live,” peace activist Kathryn Fleisher reflected on how community members united after a mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.

Presbyterians contribute to new book on race

Posted April 14th, 2021

The latest episode of “Just Talk Live” aired Tuesday with the specter of yet another police-involved shooting of a Black man looming overhead.