UKirk Collegiate Ministries and the Office of Christian Formation in the Presbyterian Mission Agency have developed a worship resource for use this Sunday, Aug. 7, which is College and Young Adult Sunday. Download the resource here. Read more »
August 2, 2022
Worship resource designed to aid churches celebrating College and Young Adult Sunday
UKirk Collegiate Ministries and the Office of Christian Formation in the Presbyterian Mission Agency have developed a worship resource for use this Sunday, Aug. 7, which is College and Young Adult Sunday. Download the resource here. Read more »
Conflict, the Rev. Dr. David Anderson Hooker likes to say, is just two ideas trying to share space. 
Genuine relationships and a long-term commitment are key. That message was clearly stated during a conversation about community partnerships between Black community leaders in Louisville and leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) agencies and entities held on July 28. 
“The world is hungry for healing and hope,” the Rev. Dr. Diane Moffett, president and executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, told the Urban Presbyteries Network conference on Thursday following opening worship. “I want to remind us today to keep the main thing the main thing: the church’s call to make disciples of Jesus Christ.” 
The Rev. Shanea D. Leonard, national coordinator for Gender & Racial Justice in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), knows what it’s like to lament by being honest before God about the pain they have experienced in the church. 
Only a preacher as gifted as the Rev. Aisha Brooks-Johnson can take worshipers from “Green Acres” to the heavenly city. 
The Rev. Katherine Culpepper, who goes by “Cully,” and the Rev. John Cheek, both members of the National Response Team for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, continued to minister to the Uvalde, Texas community this week, capped by a lunch-n-learn event Monday at First Presbyterian Church. 
As the historic, hybrid 225th General Assembly (2022) came to order on June 18 in the newly renovated conference center at 100 Witherspoon Street in Louisville, Kentucky, it was in no way business as usual. 
Malcolm Graham, who represents District 2 on the Charlotte City Council, is as qualified as anyone to speak on a panel discussing gun violence, as Union Presbyterian Seminary’s Center for Social Justice and Reconciliation offered Tuesday. 
The Rev. John Thomas “Jack” Mathison, navigator of peace, died on May 24 at age 97 after a period of declining health, in Richmond, Virginia, according to an obituary published in the Washington Post this week. He was the widower of Elaine (Sauerwein).