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Consultants recommend a decentralized, partner-seeking and harm-repairing Presbyterian Mission Agency

Posted September 16th, 2021

A consulting firm hired to help redesign the structure and purpose of the Presbyterian Mission Agency to more adeptly carry out the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Matthew 25 invitation and to better serve a changing Church and changing world has completed a report that recommends some sweeping changes for the agency over the next 30-42 months.

Minute for Mission: Native American Day

Posted August 25th, 2021

Jesus was asked, “… And who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29) America’s history with Indigenous peoples hasn’t always been neighborly. In the past five years, the General Assembly has taken actions to change that legacy, and to be neighbors not conquerors.

Responding to a crisis in Indigenous communities is the focus of Week of Action Thursday

Posted August 12th, 2021

On Thursday, Aug. 26, the Presbyterian Week of Action will focus on an ongoing crisis in Indigenous communities in the United States, Canada, and around the world with a day themed “No More Stolen Relatives: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People.”

Imagine Tulsa 21 invites participants to ‘reflect and respond’ to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Posted June 7th, 2021

In the second of three events commemorating the centennial of the Tulsa race massacre, Imagine Tulsa 21 and the Synod of the Sun’s Network for Dismantling Racism (N4dR) participants were called to “reflect and respond” to the initial conversation with Hannibal B. Johnson, an attorney, author and consultant specializing in diversity and inclusion as well as chair of the Education Committee for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission.

Special GA committee seeks to keep momentum going on a unified budget

Posted April 28th, 2021

The Moving Forward Implementation Special Committee continues to discuss ways to help three of the denomination’s entities — the Office of the General Assembly, the Presbyterian Mission Agency and the A Corporation/Administrative Services Group — develop a unified budget to present to the 225th General Assembly next year.

New investment strategy focuses on diversity, equity and inclusion

Posted March 26th, 2021

New Covenant Trust Company will start utilizing new positive and negative screening tools to assist investors who want their investments to align with their values beginning April 1. These tools will allow New Covenant Trust Company to target investment in companies with a strong record of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Presbyterian women discuss leadership during UN event

Posted March 24th, 2021

Jyungin Lee, moderator of Presbyterian Women, was recently asked by a woman who is white if she still experienced racism in her work with the church.

Panel to explore obstacles and triumphs of women in PC(USA)

Posted March 18th, 2021

A panel discussion on women’s leadership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be held at 1 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday as a complement to the 65th annual session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65).

UN gathering lights fire of advocacy in Presbyterian woman

Posted March 12th, 2021

Kay Woods was a newcomer to the United Nations’ largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment when she traveled to New York City in 2019 as part of a Presbyterian delegation.

‘The new thing before us is the now thing’

Posted February 4th, 2021

Thoughtful, moving and imaginative worship was front and center during the national event of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators Thursday afternoon, when more than 1,000 people from four continents joined for an online opening worship service anchored by prophetic preaching from the Rev. Aisha Brooks-Lytle.