Matthew 25 Archives

A little church with a big heart for mission

Posted September 1st, 2021

Bethel Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia is an African American congregation of about 45 members that’s doing the work of a congregation 10 times its size. Bethel is described as a little church with a big heart for mission. The congregation accepted the Matthew 25 invitation in 2019, but it was already doing the work the gospel requires.

Matthew 25 invitation reaches milestone

Posted September 1st, 2021

First Presbyterian Church of San Luis Obispo recently made the commitment to become a Matthew 25 church, and that marks the 1,000th registration received for the Matthew 25 vision, launched in April 2019.

Co-Moderator joins call to action for critical issue in Indigenous community

Posted August 27th, 2021

Four out of five indigenous women experience violence in their lifetimes. Indigenous women face the highest rates of going missing or being murdered. In some areas, the rate is 10 times the national average.

‘We shouldn’t sit back and wait for folks to come’

Posted August 27th, 2021

Who are the “nones,” the more than 50% of the U.S. population who told Gallup pollsters last year they no longer belong to a church, synagogue or mosque?

Week of Action program on racialized poverty promotes activism

Posted August 25th, 2021

The Book of Isaiah helped to set the tone for a Presbyterian Week of Action program focused on the need to mobilize against systemic and racialized poverty.

Three churches work together

Posted August 25th, 2021

Three W.Va. churches have teamed up to support one another in the work of Matthew 25 and give new energy to members.

More than two centuries of giving back to the community

Posted August 24th, 2021

Next month, Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Dandridge, Tennessee, will celebrate its 236th year in ministry. While that’s a history to be proud of — Hopewell is one of the oldest churches in the Volunteer State — the church’s pastor, the Rev. Brad Napier, told Between Two Pulpits hosts Bryce Wiebe and Lauren Rogers on Monday that the congregation of 88 members also takes pride in its consistent history of giving, especially through the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Special Offerings and even during the long pandemic, when the church actually saw increased giving and membership growth.

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