National Response Team Annual Meeting Concludes after Full Agenda The Presbyterian Disaster Assistance National Response Team (NRT) treats every annual meeting like a family reunion. More than 100 volunteers and team members gather each year for training, worship, sharing and, in many cases, laughter. There are no strangers, just a close group of Presbyterians eager to meet and greet, catch up on travels and occasionally rib one another. Read more »
April 13, 2016
From resiliency to water issues, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance discusses challenges
National Response Team Annual Meeting Concludes after Full Agenda The Presbyterian Disaster Assistance National Response Team (NRT) treats every annual meeting like a family reunion. More than 100 volunteers and team members gather each year for training, worship, sharing and, in many cases, laughter. There are no strangers, just a close group of Presbyterians eager to meet and greet, catch up on travels and occasionally rib one another. Read more »
SDOP disburses over $97,000 to Projects across the United States Presbyterian News Service By Margaret Mwale Charleston, S.C. — The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) has approved grants totaling $97,650 to 8 self-help projects in the United States. The money is from the One Great Hour of Sharing offering (OGHS). Projects range from… 
Freedom School Partners are making a difference for those in need by Rick Jones | Presbyterian News Service Literacy skills, character strengths and a community that believes in success. Those are the three fundamental components behind the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Program, a summer literacy initiative with a focus on children who need, but cannot… 
Presbyterian Church invests in Educate a Child initiative By Rick Jones Compassion, Peace and Justice Communications Yvonne and José moved with their parents to Shelbyville, Ky., from Central America when they were second graders. Their parents were looking for work in the agricultural and horse industry but wanted to ensure their children received a quality… 
Education is the focus of 20-year initiative By Rick Jones Compassion, Peace and Justice Communications Editor’s note: Since this story was published, Rev. John Odom accepted a call to serve as the Presbyter for Community Life for Mid-Kentucky Presbytery. For two decades the Starmount Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, N.C., has been actively ministering to families resettling… 
Big Tent 2015 workshop focused on national Educate a Child initiative by Rick Jones | Presbyterian News Service Around the corner and around the world, young people can benefit from the power of education. That was the resounding message from leaders of the “Educate a Child” national initiative, during a session at Big Tent last… 
Mike Breen helps thousands of churches and leaders develop a missional mindset by Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service Louisville, March 22, 2016—Mike Breen is known around the world as one of the leading innovators in the church discipling movement. After leading a church re-plant that became the largest in England, he launched the movement in… 
Unity Presbyterian in Denver, North Carolina, has a history of peacemaking engagement, yet the word peacemaking was not always a term understood as connected with the church’s mission. Jay Sloan, now the volunteer coordinator for Unity’s commitment to peacemaking, moved to Denver four years ago and saw Unity Presbyterian as a mission-oriented church. It was… 
Science, Technology and Common Core Standards are Foundation of Program by Rick Jones | Presbyterian News Service Louisville, February 22, 2016—On any given afternoon, the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Wash., is abuzz with young people talking math, science or reading a good book. It’s not uncommon to find fifth graders sitting with kindergarteners, helping them… 
Pastoral leaders’ group in Presbytery de Cristo is a powerful witness to the impact of engaging in theological dialogue by Emily Enders Odom | Presbyterian News Service How times have changed. Historically, Presbyterians and those who stand in the Reformed tradition were bound together primarily by a shared theology and a common theological vocabulary, observes Gary…