Presbyterian Mission Agency mel tubb Archives

The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board’s Matthew 25 Team seeks an end to anti-transgender and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation

Posted July 18th, 2023

The Matthew 25 Team, created by the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board to help do the work of the Matthew 25 movement, turned its attention Monday to giving mid councils and congregations tools to minister to people living in the growing number of states passing anti-transgender and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

There’s relief in sight

Posted June 27th, 2022

When Melonee Tubb graduated from Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky with a Master of Divinity degree, she was saddled with $85,000 in student loans.

Presbyterian Mission Agency, Board of Pensions partner on student loan debt

Posted May 5th, 2022

Every person who has student loans should explore their options for Public Service Loan Forgiveness by October 2022.

Changes in Public Service Loan Forgiveness program favor the borrower

Posted January 25th, 2022

The message from Monday’s Student Loan Debt Webinar describing recent changes in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF) is overwhelmingly in favor of the borrower — and potentially beneficial to ministers and other church leaders.

Student loan debt webinars will address changes in Public Service Loan Forgiveness program

Posted January 12th, 2022

Mel Tubb and the Rev. Alexandra Zareth of the Presbyterian Mission Agency know what it’s like to burdened by student loan debt.

New YAV class will be commissioned Sunday in virtual ceremony

Posted August 20th, 2021

The Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) program will commission 33 members of the 2021-22 class virtually Sunday. The ceremony will be carried live on the Young Adult Volunteer Facebook page at 4 p.m. Eastern Time.

‘It’s like they wanted to throw money at people’

Posted October 12th, 2020

The Rev. John Russell Stanger doesn’t like talking about money, or his student loan debt.

Visits that sing

Posted August 19th, 2020

On day one of the 2020 Virtual Vital Congregations Gathering on Tuesday, four panelists from Trinity Presbytery described how beginning the two-year VC initiative in January — and its Seven Marks of a Vital Congregation — helped prepare them as church leaders for the pandemic.

‘That’s what we need to root out’

Posted July 16th, 2020

One moment emerged above all the others Wednesday during a “Vital Conversations” webinar hosted by the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Office of Vital Congregations.