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Resources now available for planning Christian Formation Celebration Week

Posted July 8th, 2021

New resources are now available to assist Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations planning to celebrate Christian Formation Week, which begins the Sunday after Labor Day on September 12.

What’s next for ministry in the post-pandemic era?

Posted June 24th, 2021

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Office of Christian Formation (OCF) recently introduced two new resources designed to help congregations, church leaders, communities and organizations navigate the post pandemic world.

Amazing Grace Smith!

Posted May 10th, 2021

It’s truly a ‘virtual world’ when someone born and raised in South Carolina can work full-time in Portland, Maine, while also serving as a virtual Young Adult Volunteer fellow with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kindness ‘rocks’ on first Mister Rogers’ Day in the PC(USA)

Posted March 23rd, 2021

What did you do on Mr. Rogers’ Day? Saturday, March 20 would have been the 93rd birthday of Fred Rogers (1928–2003), remembered perhaps as the greatest virtual teacher of all time and a beloved ordained minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Hurricane hospitality and the connectional church

Posted September 10th, 2020

A few days before Hurricane Laura made landfall as a category 4 storm in the early hours of Aug. 27, Marie Nelson, associate director of Gilmont Camp and Conference Center in Gilmer, Texas, reached out via email to the administrators of the nonprofit Evergreen Life Services, a community for adults of differing intellectual and developmental abilities in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She wanted to make sure they knew residents and staff from Evergreen would be welcome to shelter at the camp if needed, just as they had done briefly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.