prayer Archives

Time for more prayer, less talk

Posted September 16th, 2020

Session and committee meetings can be transformed when we are more attuned to God’s will through intentional times of prayer and silence.

Minute for Mission: World Day of Prayer for Care of Creation

Posted August 17th, 2020

The environmental work of the Presbyterian Hunger Program is grounded in Scripture, Reformed theology, General Assembly policies that call us to care for Creation, including the 1990 foundational policy “Restoring Creation for Ecology and Justice,” and prayer.

Praying for one another

Posted July 27th, 2020

Just how powerful is prayer? On Sunday morning I was greeted by an email from a colleague at the Presbyterian Mission Agency with these words: May you feel the love and receive strength from all the prayers coming your way this day.

Hagar’s Community Church pastor sees answer to prayers

Posted July 27th, 2020

I have sat down to write this blog almost a hundred times. Each time I have given up after a couple of minutes.

Invite a Presbyterian mission co-worker for a virtual visit to your church

Posted July 22nd, 2020

Until in-person visits can resume safely, there has never been a better time to invite mission co-workers to visit your congregation virtually than right now.

‘Into the Light: Finding Hope Through Prayers of Lament’

Posted June 19th, 2020

When author and artist P. Lynn Miller proposed the theme of “lament” to the national Bible Study Committee of Presbyterian Women four years ago, no one had any idea how timely the topic would be now.

Seattle pastor survives the coronavirus

Posted June 17th, 2020

The Rev. Jane Pauw remembers the date, March 12, when she blacked out and entered the darkness, into what she calls “a warm, mindless comfort” that she had never experienced before.

Presbyterian co-pastors ‘fill the church’ with members’ photographs during livestreamed services

Posted June 16th, 2020

There’s no need to have an empty church on Sunday mornings, even in the midst of coronavirus social distancing directives. Co-pastors Tami Seidel and Chip Low of First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown, New York, aren’t encouraging disobedience to stay-at-home orders. Rather, they’ve placed photos of church members in the pews for them to look out on as they offer livestreamed Sunday morning services from the church sanctuary.

Presbyterian Church of Colombia sends a pastoral letter

Posted June 16th, 2020

The Presbyterian Church of Colombia is reaching out to its siblings around the world, sending greetings of “solidarity in God’s call that invites us to do everything in our power to protect the life of the people in our congregations and neighboring communities through pastoral and humanitarian care.”

Survival checklist

Posted May 27th, 2020

He drives up the Philadelphia Turnpike for his semi-annual appointment with the allergist, and sneezes. Not unusual for this time of year. Should he, a senior, be nervous? He’s not anxiety-prone, but with the advancing virus constantly in the news, how can he not have dying at the back of his mind?