Presbyterian Mission Agency matthew 25 movement Archives

‘A call to imagine the change we want to see’

Posted May 2nd, 2024

Flautist, futurist, bandleader and composer Nicole Mitchell Gantt joined the Rev. Jermaine Ross-Allam Wednesday for the second installment of the Matthew 25 series, “Imagining a Future Beyond Systemic Poverty and Structural Racism.”

North Carolina youth ask the important question, ‘¿Cuándo te vimos?’

Posted April 2nd, 2024

If given the choice, most people would rather not ride on a hospital gurney. Except for Hector Cardenas.

Embodying Easter in a Waynesboro, Pennsylvania laundromat

Posted March 28th, 2024

While most pastors devote Holy Week to poring over commentaries, planning worship and washing feet, the Rev. Caroline Vickery also washes clothes. At the local laundromat.

Webinar explores challenges faced by Roma population

Posted March 25th, 2024

The PC(USA)’s Office of the Middle East and Europe, part of the World Mission ministry, is presenting a webinar titled “Roma in Europe: Living on the Margins.”

From Plato’s ‘The Cave’ to the 21st century lawful execution of criminal convicts, even children

Posted March 19th, 2024

In an ongoing series of prison-related stories from around the world, this article will take us to Pakistan, one of the several countries in the Indian Subcontinent of South Asia located between the Himalayas in the north and the Indian Ocean to the south.

World Mission’s Africa Area Coordinator discusses the value of education, especially for girls

Posted March 15th, 2024

The Rev. Cheryl Barnes, Africa Area Coordinator for Presbyterian World Mission, delivered an engaging address on education Friday during the in-person and online gathering of the Congo Mission Network.

Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries to host Narcan webinar

Posted March 14th, 2024

From 4 p.m. through 6 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, March 19, Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries will be hosting a Narcan training webinar featuring Patricia Osterhoudt as the facilitator.

The Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Stony Point Center to host housing crisis symposium

Posted March 13th, 2024

On May 15-17, Stony Point Center is hosting a Housing Crisis Symposium both in-person and online supporting the eradicating systemic poverty focus of the Matthew 25 movement. Registration is encouraged by May 8.

Embodying kindness on the streets of Las Vegas

Posted March 5th, 2024

For Shawn Duncan, it’s the little things — like getting a birthday card — that mean a lot. Perhaps it’s because Duncan, a military veteran living in Las Vegas, hadn’t had a mailbox in years. Or a home.

In the footsteps of the Queen of Sheba

Posted February 28th, 2024

Many may recall the Queen of Sheba, who according to 1 Kings 10 caravanned from East Africa to visit King Solomon of the Israelites, a monarch deemed wiser than all the sages of Egypt and the Middle East.