As the plaintive strains of “Be Still, My Soul” filled the Presbyterian Center, worshipers gathered for prayer, both online and in the chapel, on the morning following the national election.
While the clever lawyer in the parable of the Good Samaritan may ask Jesus, “Who is my neighbor,” the members and leaders at Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana in Brownsville, Texas, boldly ask a slightly different question.
Who is my family?
As a rush of fresh-faced students filed into the Presbyterian Pan American School’s Harte Student Center, Dr. Joey King beamed with pride.
And rightfully so.
The new president of the small, PC(USA)-related college-preparatory school located in the Texas Coastal Bend some 90 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, has exciting plans to flourish PPAS’s most valuable resource, its students.
As a longtime Presbyterian with a heart for justice, the Rev. Janice Kamikawa has been on many mission trips over the years. But a recent visit to Panama with the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) stands out for her and others who participated.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board heard from people who provide important back-office services in the Administrative Services Group on Thursday.
According to the Rev. Wilson Kennedy, people doing the work of ministry do well to remember the words of a pair of neurologists who star in the Netflix documentary series, “Lennox Hill”: “Remember, there is a person here.”
On the first day of two days of meetings that began Tuesday, the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board approved and sent to the 226th General Assembly recommendations for changes to the PC(USA)’s Special Offerings.
