Presbyterian News Service staff

Contact the Presbyterian News Service staff by phone Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. ET, or at any time by voice mail, fax or email (addresses listed below).

Call toll-free at (888) 728-7228, followed by the extension number of the person with whom you wish to speak, or (502) 569-5493. News Service Coordinator Jerry Van Marter can also be reached by cell phone at (502) 472-5106. The News Service fax number is (502) 569-8073.

Please send mail to News Service at this address:

Presbyterian News Service
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
100 Witherspoon Street
Louisville, KY 40202

Presbyterian News Service beats

The Presbyterian News Service staff works on a "beat" system — each reporter has ongoing responsibility for covering specific areas of ministry. Assignments outside the beats are made by News Service Coordinator Jerry Van Marter.

Questions, comments and story ideas should be directed to the reporter covering that beat; or contact Jerry Van Marter. The Presbyterian News Service beats, effective June 1, 2005:

The Rev. Jerry L. Van Marter
Coordinator
(888) 728-7228 x5493
(502) 472-5106 (cell)
Email Jerry

Biography:

• Presbyterian News Service staff since 1988
• PNS coordinator since 1994
• Presbyterian minister for 36 years, parish pastor for 17 years
• Member, San Francisco Presbytery

Beats:

• Theology, Worship and Education program area
• Evangelism and Church Growth program area
• Executive Director’s Office (except the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy)
• Vocation
• Communications and Funds Development — Funds Development and the Mission Initiative: Joining Hearts & Hands
• Board of Pensions
• Office of the General Assembly — Ecumenical Relations
• Synod and Presbytery news

Evan Silverstein
Senior Reporter
(888) 728-7228 x5492
Email Evan

Biography:

• Presbyterian News Service staff since 1998
• Former reporter for the Lexington, Ky. Herald-Leader, Louisville, Ky. Courier-Journal and the Elizabethtown, Ky. News Enterprise

Beats:

• Racial Ethnic and Women’s Ministries program area
• Relief and Development program area
• Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation
• Office of the General Assembly — Committee on the Office of the General Assembly
• Presbyterian colleges’ news

Toya Richards Hill
Reporter
(888) 728-7228 x5325
Email Toya

Biography:

• Presbyterian News Service staff since 2005
• Former reporter for the Little Rock, Arkansas Gazette; Burlington, Vt. Free Press; and Lexington, Ky. Herald-Leader, and former editor for the Gary, Ind. Post-Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.

Beats:

• Peace and Justice program area
• World Mission program area
• Communications and Funds Development — Mission                      Interpretation (including Presbyterians Today, Special                  Offerings, Mission Yearbooks, Presbyterian Planning                      Calendar)
• Presbyterian Investment and Loan Program
• Presbyterian Publishing Corporation
• Office of the General Assembly — Constitutional Services
• Presbyterian seminaries’ news