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Launching Intentional Communities for young adults is ‘game changer’ for PC(USA)

Posted January 25th, 2017

Coming of age in New Zealand, Paul Humphreys deeply understood that country’s special, spiritual connection with the land. “As a child, I was often messing around in rivers, hiking, biking, and sailing,” says Humphreys, who has served as program director for Outreach and Disciple-Making at the Crestfield Camp & Conference Center in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, for the last two years. Crestfield, the camp and conference center for Pittsburgh Presbytery, is a thriving facility that currently serves over 600 campers in the summertime as well close to 3,000 conference and retreat users.

Launching intentional communities for young adults is ‘game changer’ for PC(USA)

Posted December 29th, 2016

Coming of age in New Zealand, Paul Humphreys innately understood that nation’s special, spiritual connection with the land.

“Keeping Faith” July/August video newsletter published

Posted August 3rd, 2016

“Keeping Faith” the video newsletter from Tony De La Rosa, interim executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency is live.

A new generation of Presbyterian leaders looks to the church’s future

Posted June 24th, 2016

Group seeks more inclusion and outreach by Rick Jones | Presbyterian News Service PORTLAND – As the 222nd General Assembly winds down in Portland, four emerging young church leaders gathered… Read more »

Financial Aid for Service offers consultations at 222nd General Assembly for prospective Season of Service applicants

Posted June 9th, 2016

When the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board unanimously approved a change in name for the Financial Aid for Studies office to Financial Aid for Service in the fall of 2012, the action signaled an intentional shift in the PC(USA) from an emphasis on education purely for the sake of education to education for a life of discernment and service.