Presbyterian Mission Agency matthew 25 movement Archives

Affordable housing, community space at the heart of a PC(USA) congregation serving its District of Columbia community

Posted December 11th, 2024

Members and friends of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest District of Columbia has been exploring how they can best use their property for the community.

Helping to eradicate systemic poverty one Christmas purchase at a time

Posted December 6th, 2024

As far as Third Presbyterian Church’s Anti-Racism Task Force was concerned, the already overcrowded, post-Thanksgiving calendar was missing a critically important date for holiday shoppers.

PC(USA) church reaches out to its D.C. neighbors, including those with substance use disorders

Posted December 2nd, 2024

Westminster Presbyterian Church in the southwestern section of the District of Columbia has been serving the community for decades, evolving to address its changing needs.

Raising the roof — and the rest of the house as well — is one way New Castle Presbytery is responding to the Matthew 25 call

Posted June 12th, 2024

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has affirmed since 2016 a commitment to mission and ministry as guided by Matthew 25. That commitment, to building vital congregations, dismantling structural racism, and eradicating systemic poverty, is meant to move us into deeper understandings of who we are called to be as followers of Jesus Christ and how we are called to love our neighbors.

‘A call to imagine the change we want to see’

Posted May 2nd, 2024

Flautist, futurist, bandleader and composer Nicole Mitchell Gantt joined the Rev. Jermaine Ross-Allam Wednesday for the second installment of the Matthew 25 series, “Imagining a Future Beyond Systemic Poverty and Structural Racism.”

North Carolina youth ask the important question, ‘¿Cuándo te vimos?’

Posted April 2nd, 2024

If given the choice, most people would rather not ride on a hospital gurney. Except for Hector Cardenas.

Embodying Easter in a Waynesboro, Pennsylvania laundromat

Posted March 28th, 2024

While most pastors devote Holy Week to poring over commentaries, planning worship and washing feet, the Rev. Caroline Vickery also washes clothes. At the local laundromat.

Webinar explores challenges faced by Roma population

Posted March 25th, 2024

The PC(USA)’s Office of the Middle East and Europe, part of the World Mission ministry, is presenting a webinar titled “Roma in Europe: Living on the Margins.”

From Plato’s ‘The Cave’ to the 21st century lawful execution of criminal convicts, even children

Posted March 19th, 2024

In an ongoing series of prison-related stories from around the world, this article will take us to Pakistan, one of the several countries in the Indian Subcontinent of South Asia located between the Himalayas in the north and the Indian Ocean to the south.

World Mission’s Africa Area Coordinator discusses the value of education, especially for girls

Posted March 15th, 2024

The Rev. Cheryl Barnes, Africa Area Coordinator for Presbyterian World Mission, delivered an engaging address on education Friday during the in-person and online gathering of the Congo Mission Network.