Presbyterian Mission Agency madison mckinney Archives

Dialogue session to focus on Native American issues

Posted November 1st, 2024

A fourth and final dialogue session, hosted by PERUSA, a PC(USA) World Mission ministry which features partners working in Peru and the U.S., will focus on Indigenous people’s rights in recognition of November being National Native American Heritage Month.

Presbyterian Mission Agency Board joins online for a full and rich day

Posted October 4th, 2023

Wednesday, the first of three days of online meetings for the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board, began with worship and ended with a devotion. In between, board members heard reports, held fearless dialogues with the Rev. Dr. Gregory Ellison and team, and celebrated the work and ministry of James Rissler, the president and CEO of the Presbyterian Investment and Loan Program (PILP), who is retiring at the end of the year.

Madison McKinney, an Indigenous person and a Presbyterian, invites the church ‘to sit with me in this pain’ of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people

Posted May 3rd, 2023

Each year as May 5 approaches, which is the National Day of Awareness & Action for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-Spirit People, Madison McKinney feels what she called on Wednesday “a heavy burden in my heart.”

Devotions, actions and discussion wrap up the final day of Presbyterian Mission Agency Board meetings

Posted April 21st, 2023

The Rev. Jeromey Howard, who serves First Presbyterian Church in Montgomery, New York, started the third and final day of Presbyterian Mission Agency Board meetings Friday with a brief devotion taken from Micah 6:8.

Co-Moderator joins call to action for critical issue in Indigenous community

Posted August 27th, 2021

Four out of five indigenous women experience violence in their lifetimes. Indigenous women face the highest rates of going missing or being murdered. In some areas, the rate is 10 times the national average.

Advocacy committees call for recognition of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls day

Posted May 5th, 2021

Since 2017, grassroots actions on May 5 to honor and call for justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) have increasingly grown at the local, regional, national and international level.

Challenging the status quo

Posted August 29th, 2020

Young adults with a desire to see the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) move forward say they’re running up against a wall when they try to approach older members about sensitive issues, such as institutional racism and bias against queer people.

Committee members call on PC(USA) to ‘start leading’ on justice issues

Posted June 27th, 2020

The Rev. Michelle Hwang has been out to protest against police brutality and systemic racism in the Chicago area, been inspired by the diversity she sees in the crowd, and comes back home thinking about the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Reminiscing over a very good year

Posted May 21st, 2020

For the Presbyterian Mission Agency, 2019 will go down as the year the Matthew 25 invitation was extended and embraced by dozens of mid councils and thousands of congregations.

Native American women are emerging leaders in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Posted August 26th, 2019

Women are playing increasingly pivotal roles at every level in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). From moderators, to heads of agencies, stated clerks at the middle governing body level to synod and presbytery executives and pastors, women are at the forefront. And not to be excluded from this wave of women leadership are Native American women.