Squeezed together with girls about her same age, Mary sat on a bamboo pew in the sanctuary. It was the first morning of a three-day children’s trauma healing workshop. The list of things written in her new notebook included: too much housework, loss of my parents and missing school.
Sara and I live on the edge of Jerusalem. Often, our paths take us near the Mount of Olives. Tourists and pilgrims come from all corners of the globe and pose for photos on a terrace there, with the breathtaking sight of the “Holy City” in the background.
Presbyterians do mission in partnership, and a vital part of that partnership is celebrating how God’s Spirit speaks through our partners in God’s mission.
A Latin America/Caribbean partner consultation held in Cartagena, Colombia, late last month marked the end of a cycle of four international consultations with global partners that will provide input for mission strategy for the 21st century.
Doris Ellyn Anderson Reeves, a Presbyterian missionary who taught at the same elementary school in Cameroun (the French spelling of Cameroon) she had once attended, died Dec. 30, 2018 at age 89.
Hery Ramambasoa is World Mission’s new area coordinator for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. His home base will be Suava, Fiji, so he can easily travel throughout the region.
When Dan Turk gazes at fruit-laden tangerine trees in Antanetibe, Madagascar, he sees more than an agricultural success story.
He sees a path out of poverty for the families who tend the crop.
The cautious optimism that characterized the popular mood in Zimbabwe at the beginning of 2018 had largely dissipated by the beginning of this year. In January 2019, a huge fuel price increase triggered widespread protests that were brutally suppressed by security forces, prompting concerns that Zimbabwe is returning to the repression that marked the Mugabe era. In the midst of this turmoil, the Church is working to foster national dialogue that emphasizes the sanctity of the 2013 Constitution and unity in diversity.
Young adults in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ages 18–30 can now apply to serve during a Young Adults in Mission (YAM) Work Camp July 23-31 on the island of Curaçao in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
