News & Announcements
October 2009
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Oct. 30, 2009
Unusual loan revives two weeklies
Philadelphia PC(USA) church brings newspapers to life
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Oct. 30, 2009
Getting heard
Effective advocacy requires a plan, workshop teaches
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Oct. 30, 2009
Nominees sought for best Presbyterian writer
Presbyterian Writers Guild will name honoree at 2010 General Assembly
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Oct. 29, 2009
‘Between Iraq and a hard place’
PC(USA) supports tenacious Christian community in Middle East
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Oct. 29, 2009
Church as a way of life
Luke 6 Project to be Christian partner in interfaith community at Stony Point
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Oct. 29, 2009
Service-oriented
YAVs say PC(USA) volunteer stints lead to sense of call
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Oct. 28, 2009
Partners across borders
Plenary session focuses on mission in the Americas
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Oct. 28, 2009
Renowned Christian educator Mary Duckert dies
Teacher, author was APCE ‘Educator of the Year’ in 1995
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Oct. 28, 2009
Rising market lifts BOP’s portfolio 21.2 percent
Board mulls over Congressional health care reform proposals
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Oct. 27, 2009
The old college try
FC College, other Pakistan Presbyterian schools are making a comeback
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Oct. 27, 2009
Living together, faithfully
Interfaith residential community at Stony Point to focus on nonviolence
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Oct. 26, 2009
Seeking land
PC(USA) mission worker helps those displaced by tsunami, war
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Oct. 26, 2009
Graduation day
Partnership enables Liberian refugee to complete CLP training
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Oct. 26, 2009
UN expert: Governments failing indigenous declaration
U.S. signals willingness to sign agreement it previously rejected
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Oct. 23, 2009
Family gathering
Farrell to Mission Celebration participants: ‘transform global activity into global discipleship’
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Oct. 23, 2009
Money’s no object
Genuine partnership is about relationships, not wealth, workshop told
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Oct. 23, 2009
Dissident Cuba blogger cannot receive prize
Government denies travel visa to New York ceremony
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Oct. 22, 2009
Change partners
Mission partnerships take many forms, PC(USA)’s Cuba Network learns
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Oct. 22, 2009
When water is personal
Their own bad water experiences drive water system installers in Laos
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Oct. 22, 2009
The ‘wholesaler’
Mexico mission worker matches volunteers, needs
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Oct. 21, 2009
Professing faith
Alice Winters teaches and learns from her students in Colombia
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Oct. 21, 2009
Ginny Davidson dies at 93
Rochester native was much-honored advocate for full inclusion
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Oct. 21, 2009
Presbytery and synod news
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Oct. 20, 2009
Common ground
Reconciliation at the center of couple’s ministry to Muslims and Christians
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Oct. 20, 2009
Bowled over
Miami Valley Presbytery’s Calvin celebration goes down a different alley
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Oct. 20, 2009
Seminary news
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Oct. 19, 2009
Working with, not working for
Mission co-worker learns value of humility, partnership in Philippines
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Oct. 19, 2009
Calvin legacy is mixed in South Africa
Supporters, defenders of apartheid both tried to claim Reformer
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Oct. 16, 2009
A seed grows in Tijuana
Bill Soldwisch’s 25-year mission career inspired while a teenager
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Oct. 16, 2009
Connecting, learning, sending
World Mission Celebration lifts up mission work, opportunities Oct. 22-24 in Cincinnati
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Oct. 16, 2009
Media Violence Fast ’09 counters anti-immigrant hate speech
Seven-day emphasis, sponsored by interfaith coalition, is Oct. 19-26
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Oct. 15, 2009
‘Life in Haiti abounds’
Mission co-worker focuses on simple, sustainable farming
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Oct. 15, 2009
Presbyterian Native American nursing school honored with National Historic Landmark status
Historian: Sage Memorial changed Anglo and Native American attitudes
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Oct. 15, 2009
Text and context
More study sought on WCC’s ‘The Nature and Mission of the Church’
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Oct. 14, 2009
Seeking a lasting peace
Northern Ireland mission worker worries about complacency
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Oct. 13, 2009
A PK on Broadway
Presbyterian elder Tim Shew says ‘Hello, Birdie’; show opens Oct. 15
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Oct. 13, 2009
Reaching others for Christ
Mission co-workers in Thailand work with theology students, prostitutes
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Oct. 12, 2009
A new meaning of ‘partnering’
Mission co-worker shares stories of mutual relationship between Russian, U.S. churches
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Oct. 9, 2009
Seminary at the crossroads
Seminario Evangelico de Puerto Rico is ‘focal point,’ says Irizarry
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Oct. 9, 2009
Partnering presbyteries
Colombian pastor speaks in Wisconsin on peacemaking amid civil war
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Oct. 8, 2009
From texts to haiku
Web writing requires brevity, liveliness, links, personal voice
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Oct. 8, 2009
Bible requires new reading, says Nicaraguan theologian
Araica: in ‘convulsed world’ alternate reading must be open to experience
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Oct. 8, 2009
Notes about people
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Oct. 8, 2009
Seminary news
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Oct. 7, 2009
From greed to need
Pastor is still in the investment business, going from large firm in Houston to small church in North Texas
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Oct. 7, 2009
Carolyn Gillette pens new hunger walk hymn
Liturgical resource aids CROP walks, World Food Day observances
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Oct. 6, 2009
SFTS president resigns to return to pastoral ministry
Butin concludes service in January after seven years
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Oct. 6, 2009
Self-Development of People announces grant recipients
$140,000 awarded to fund seven self-help projects in the United States
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Oct. 6, 2009
College news
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Oct. 5, 2009
PC(USA) responds to south Asian disasters
Leaders appeal for prayers, PDA support in Indonesia, Samoa, Philippines
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Oct. 2, 2009
Legendary mission innovator Margaret Flory dies at 95
Ohioan founded Junior Year Abroad, Frontiers in Mission programs
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Oct. 2, 2009
Awakening leaders
National Korean Presbyterian Men conference focuses on equipping lay people, sharing God’s blessings
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Oct. 1, 2009
Yodogawa Christian Hospital contributes more than $200,000 to PC(USA) mission in Asia
Missionary-founded health care center planning new facility near site in Osaka, Japan
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Oct. 1, 2009
Cool, clear water
SDOP helps bring clean water to Haitian squatter communities in the DR