Presbyterian Mission Agency rev. elmer zavala Archives

People’s Summit workshop trumpets the power of unity

Posted September 17th, 2024

One of six workshops offered during Friday’s People’s Summit on Food Systems and Urban Agriculture carried a title reflecting what many agricultural producers have wrestled with: “We Need Land, Money and Control.”

Monday is last chance to register for the 2024 Evangelism Conference

Posted September 5th, 2024

Registration for in-person and online registrants for the 2024 Evangelism Conference titled “A Lifestyle That Exudes Justice” closes Sept. 9.

Registration for 2024 Evangelism Conference now open

Posted May 13th, 2024

This year’s Evangelism Conference, planned by Theology, Formation & Evangelism, repents of “expressions of evangelism” that have “hurt people and promoted injustice” and encourages ways of embodying the good news that promote healing and compassion.

‘Why not just start your own learning hub?’

Posted May 10th, 2022

It’s one thing to watch the heartbreaking plight of new immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers unfold on the evening news. It’s quite another to meet Lissy H. in person.

Ellen Sherby named associate director for World Mission’s Global Connections

Posted April 26th, 2022

Ellen Sherby began her duties this week as associate director for a new area of Presbyterian World Mission called Global Connections.

Not even a pandemic can slow down this 60-member church

Posted April 18th, 2022

When it came time to minister to the families of recent asylees from Central America, it turns out a global pandemic was no match for the 60 or so members and friends of Beechmont Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky.

We the poor — all we have is God to protect us and we put ourselves in God’s hands’

Posted August 20th, 2020

The Rev. Elmer Zavala of the Presbyterian Hispanic Latino Ministry of Preston in southern Louisville knows about the unusual and difficult challenges that immigrants face with COVID-19.

‘I stir the pot a little to promote creativity’

Posted May 15th, 2020

Congregations looking for ways to be the church together during and even after the pandemic might well find what they’re looking for in the early church practice of house churches.

‘We the poor — all we have is God to protect us and we put ourselves in God’s hands’

Posted May 13th, 2020

The Rev. Elmer Zavala of the Presbyterian Hispanic Latino Ministry of Preston south of Louisville knows about unusual and difficult challenges immigrants face with COVID-19.