Presbyterian Mission Agency rev. erica rader Archives

Funding Model Development Team co-moderators take to the airwaves to explain their work to date

Posted June 17th, 2024

This month’s webinar put on by the co-moderators of the Funding Model Development Team laid out the work completed so far on the team’s General Assembly mandate to “develop and implement experiments that will fund councils of the church, above the session, that will be consistent with the identified values and adaptive challenges of the mid councils.”

The PC(USA)’s Unification Commission hears from the two people who will be most responsible for PMA and OGA unity

Posted March 9th, 2023

On Thursday during the first day of what will be a three-day session in the conference center at the Presbyterian Center, the Unification Commission heard from the two people who will be most responsible for what a unified Office of the General Assembly and Presbyterian Mission Agency will be: the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, and the Rev. Dr. Diane Givens Moffett.

PDA helps California presbytery navigate wildfire response

Posted September 9th, 2020

Whenever a disaster strikes, the Rev. Erica Rader does three things: she gives to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA), she gives to a food bank in the impacted area, and she prays. Now she is finding out what those gifts to PDA are supporting.

Mental health from the trenches

Posted August 17th, 2020

The Rev. Ryan Althaus, the founder of Sweaty Sheep and the Hunger Advocate for the Presbytery of San Jose, convened a thoughtful and moving webinar over the weekend on mental illness and the church. His first-person story is told with candor and grace in the sidebar below.