Presbyterian Mission Agency around the table Archives

Around the Table initiative cohorts launch later in 2024 and in 2025

Posted May 9th, 2024

Application for the first cohorts of the Around the Table initiative is open until May 31. These first cohorts are experimental in nature and will help inform the larger launch of more cohorts in 2025.

Grandparents take their seat ‘Around the Table’

Posted April 22nd, 2024

For its sixth episode, the hosts of the “Around the Table” podcast, the Rev. Michelle Thomas-Bush and the Rev. Cliff Haddox, turned to a pair of grandparents to share their wisdom on holding meaningful and helpful conversations with young people. Listen to their 46-minute conversation with the Rev. Robert Hay Sr. and the Rev. Dr. Sarah Reyes Gibbs here.

PC(USA) podcast offers up a how-to on how to hold conversations when not everyone is on the same faith journey

Posted April 16th, 2024

For the fifth of six installments of their “Around the Table” podcast, which can be heard here, hosts the Rev. Michelle Thomas-Bush and the Rev. Cliff Haddox each invited a friend to talk about conversations around the table where not everyone is a person of faith.

The PC(USA)’s ‘Around the Table’ podcast looks at faithfully parenting children through different life stages

Posted April 9th, 2024

The fourth episode of the “Around the Table” podcast series features Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) pastors talking about how parents can have faith conversations with their children throughout different stages of the child’s life. Listen to the 32-minute edition here.

‘Every Season Sacred’ author Kayla Craig joins the PC(USA)’s ‘Around the Table’ podcast

Posted April 2nd, 2024

Kayla Craig describes her family’s dinner table as “absolute chaos, but it’s a great kind of chaos.”

‘Everything Good about God is True: Choosing Faith’ author Bruce Reyes-Chow is the guest on a new podcast

Posted March 11th, 2024

As the guest of the new podcast “Around the Table” from the Office of Christian Formation, the Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, an author, speaker and Moderator of the 218th General Assembly (2008), offers up his perspective on how conversations at home can improve and enrich family connections and spirituality.

Resources and networking opportunities abound at APCE Christian Formation luncheon

Posted January 29th, 2024

As Stephanie Fritz took the microphone last week to give the sold-out crowd at the APCE Networking and Resourcing Lunch a “fast and furious introduction” to the abundance of resources and initiatives offered by the PC(USA), Laura Sparks caught her breath.