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Young Adult Volunteer program names new coordinator

Posted November 4th, 2021

Destini Hodges was named this week as the permanent coordinator of the Young Adult Volunteer program. She has served in the interim role for the past 12 months.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Evangelical Church of the Czech Brethren hosting conference on youth involvement

Posted October 1st, 2021

The Evangelical Church of the Czech Brethren (ECCB) and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are hosting a virtual conference on youth involvement from 2 p.m. through 4 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, October 17.

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.

‘The struggle does not define us’

Posted August 17th, 2021

On Saturday, Aug. 28, the Presbyterian Week of Action will celebrate the liberation, resilience and vibrancy of Black people through two main events: a panel discussion and an evening concert.

Do the queer community and the church need each other?

Posted June 2nd, 2021

Do people in the LGBTQIA+ community need the church? Does the church need people who are LGBTQIA+?

Breaking free from purity culture

Posted May 5th, 2021

The second Linda Kay Klein heard that the gunman in the March 16 shootings at three Atlanta spas considered his victims “stumbling blocks,” she knew he had been raised in purity culture.

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.

Young Adult Volunteers are developing relationships to ‘last a lifetime’

Posted April 1st, 2021

In its 30-year history, the Young Adult Volunteer program has produced future ministers of word and sacrament, ruling elders, educators and leaders of nonprofit organizations. But in this special virtual year some are getting the opportunity to learn in-depth about the Presbyterian Mission Agency and its ministries.

Black Caucus president: ‘We cannot rest’

Posted February 4th, 2021

“Just Talk Live” kicked off Black History Month this week with an appearance by the Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Priest, Jr., president of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus.