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Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, holds a ‘service of service’

Over the summer, Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, put service into its worship service. The Rev. Chris Peters, Westminster’s head of staff, offered a monthlong “When Life Shows Up to Church” preaching series by considering the question, “What do we do when the storms of life show up to church?”

‘Being Matthew 25’ gives Presbyterians a view from inside the 67th Commission on the Status of Women, which concludes Friday

Reporting from the United Nations and the nearby Church Center for the United Nations during the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the people behind Being Matthew 25 brought the monthly series to its conclusion Thursday with a wide-ranging report featuring both #CSW67 organizers and Presbyterian participants. Click on the link above to watch the 31-minute broadcast hosted by the Rev. DeEtte Decker, Director of Communications for the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

When Justice Knox, it’s best to answer

Opportunity knocks in most people’s lives, but in Knoxville, Tennessee, justice knocks. The Matthew 25 work of Justice Knox was the focus of a recent “Being Matthew 25” broadcast, which can be viewed here. The guest of the Rev. DeEtte Decker, communications director for the Presbyterian Mission Agency, was the Rev. Meredith Loftis, associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Knoxville.

PC(USA) Co-Moderators take their turn behind the microphone during this month’s ‘Being Matthew 25’

Calling herself a sometimes “reluctant pursuer of hearing God’s voice,” the Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace nonetheless picked up the phone one day early in 2022 and “made a blind call to this dear sister and now friend,” the Rev. Shavon Starling-Louis, to discuss standing for the office of Co-Moderators. The rest is history, of course: in June 2022, commissioners to the 225th General Assembly elected the two as Co-Moderators, offices they hold right up until the 226th General Assembly, set to be held online and in-person in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2024.