Presbyterian Mission Agency presbytery of mid-kentucky Archives

Mid-Kentucky Presbytery churches help Kentuckians eliminate more than $4.5 million in medical debt

Posted September 27th, 2023

Presbyterian church members became passionate about the plight of medical debtors who can’t afford their medical bills after learning about a debt relief effort offered by the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt organization. Through a donor campaign launched in their churches over the summer, together they raised enough money to abolish $4,577,749.43 of medical debt for thousands of Kentucky residents.

Presbyterian Center staff joins with Mid-Kentucky Presbytery to gather hygiene kits

Posted June 28th, 2023

“The mission committee of Mid-Kentucky Presbytery is ready to again collect hygiene kits for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance,” wrote Ruth Welch, coordinator of the project for the presbytery. “We hope the Presbyterian Center will join in collecting, sorting and assembling these kits.”

Presbyterian churches in Louisville, Kentucky take the plowshares approach toward halting gun violence

Posted December 5th, 2022

It took a village on Sunday for the Presbytery of Mid-Kentucky to pull off its Guns to Gardens event, including the village blacksmith.

‘Come Bear Witness’

Posted July 28th, 2022

As the historic, hybrid 225th General Assembly (2022) came to order on June 18 in the newly renovated conference center at 100 Witherspoon Street in Louisville, Kentucky, it was in no way business as usual.

Ellen Sherby named associate director for World Mission’s Global Connections

Posted April 26th, 2022

Ellen Sherby began her duties this week as associate director for a new area of Presbyterian World Mission called Global Connections.

Learning to sign ‘peace’

Posted September 23rd, 2021

A “peace movement” is taking place throughout Mid-Kentucky Presbytery. Its origins are found in Scripture for sure, but the movement has gained momentum largely in response to COVID-19.

The PC(USA), A Corporation’s rosy financial picture has but one thorn

Posted August 27th, 2021

Ian Hall, who began work in June as the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation, had a rosy financial report Friday to share with the A Corp Board in a report covering the first seven months of 2021.

‘We must stay on the wall’

Posted May 21st, 2021

As the COVID-19 virus spread across the country, statistics show that it impacted African Americans at a disproportionally high rate. In hot spots like New York, Detroit, New Orleans, and Chicago, Blacks are dying at alarmingly high rates.

Now’s the time to thank teachers

Posted April 20th, 2021

When a 12-year-old Jesus escaped his parents’ watchful eye during the family’s annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the anxious couple returned to find him at long last in the temple, “sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.”

Leading the PC(USA) from a world away

Posted April 6th, 2021

Just when most young people were beginning to imagine what nontraditional instruction might look like during COVID-19, Sami Han set about picturing an even more nontraditional path. She moved to South Korea with her parents.