Presbyterian Mission Agency installation Archives

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary to install its seventh president Nov. 12

Posted November 1st, 2021

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary will install the Rev. Dr. Asa J. Lee as its seventh president at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, Nov. 12, at East Liberty Presbyterian Church, 116 S. Highland Avenue in Pittsburgh.

When physical touch is impossible

Posted March 8th, 2021

A Virginia congregation created handprint stoles as a way to virtually lay on hands on newly installed elders and deacons.

PC(USA) offers guidance on baptism, ordination during the pandemic

Posted August 4th, 2020

The Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Office of Theology and Worship have together prepared a statement on the sacrament of baptism and services of ordination and/or installment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

First woman installed as senior minister of Vietnamese congregation

Posted May 12th, 2017

The Rev. Huong Dang, best known as “Cedar,” has been installed as pastor of the Vietnamese Presbyterian Church (VPC) in Garden Grove, California. She is the first woman to be installed as senior minister of a Vietnamese-language congregation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

A few good women

Posted October 26th, 2016

When the Rev. Terilyn Lawson was installed on Sunday, October 23, as associate pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Great Falls, Montana—and concurrently as the first resident in the Chaplain Candidate Residency Program newly launched by the Presbyterian Council for Chaplains and Military Personnel (PCCMP)—she had to marvel at what God had done.