Publications and periodicals
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What Is Missional Ecclesiology?
From Office of the General Assembly—Form of Government
Missional ecclesiology demands more of the church than deciding which community service projects to undertake or setting congregational priorities for the coming year. Missional ecclesiology is a way of understanding the church. It begins with the missio Dei – God’s own “self-sending” in Christ by the Spirit to redeem and transform creation. In a missional ecclesiology, the Church is not a building or an institution but a community of witness, called into being and equipped by God, and sent into the world to testify to and participate in Christ’s work. The Church does not have missions; instead, the mission ...
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What We Bring With Us: A letter from Doug Orbaker in Nicaragua
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Mission Trips
Mission is the life we bring with us when we go to another place to serve, and it is the even richer life that we take back with us when we return.
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What if the church or presbytery doesn't want to talk about domestic violence?
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—PHEWA
Domestic violence cuts across all social and cultural borders – race, economic class, education, age, etc. That means that violence is probably taking place in some family in every one of our churches.
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What if you are a new pastor in a new community?
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—PHEWA
Presbyterians Against Domestic Violence Network (PADVN) provides help for new pastors confronting domestic violence situations in a congregation.
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What if you visit an elderly member and see signs of abuse?
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—PHEWA
Presbyterians Against Domestic Violence Network (PADVN) provides this resource for pastors. The indicators of elder abuse are similar to those for spousal/partner abuse and child abuse. In addition to physical, sexual, emotional or psychological and financial abuse, there is one other aspect of elder abuse. Elder abuse may also involve neglect — passive, active or self-neglect.
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What if your congregation discovered a church officer was charged with domestic violence?
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—PHEWA
Presbyterians Against Domestic Violence Network (PADVN) provides this resource.
What if members and leaders of a congregation discovered that an ordained church officer (pastors, elder or deacon) was charged with domestic violence in his or her family? What are the issues that need to be worked through and addressed by the community of faith?
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What it means to be a center accredited by the Ministry Development Council.
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Preparation for Ministry
If you partner with or use a Ministry Development Council accredited center, you can be assured of the following:
- Commitment to a mission
- Specially qualified personnel
- Procedures of the highest quality
- Wide range of services offered
- Close working relationship with church bodies
- Advantages of being part of a network
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What’s in it for the PC(USA)?
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Office of Public Witness
An analysis of the newly enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The new health care law enacted by Congress, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will have profound impacts on the lives of people living in the United States. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), grounded in our biblical tradition of love-of-neighbor, advocated that certain principles be encompassed in this new bill.
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Why should male ministers preach on domestic violence?
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—PHEWA
by the Rev. Kevin Fredericks, Black Mountain Presbyterian Church, Black Mountain, N.C., Presbyterians Against Domestic Violence Network (PADVN) Leadership Team
For years many church leaders have operated from the basic orientation that Domestic Violence is a women's issue. Within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the issue emerged through the Office of Women's Ministry. In a rather subtle and dismissive way church male leadership has frequently assumed that within our denomination there are women specialists who address the cases of domestic violence that emerge from time to time around the denomination. In so doing, we make the ...
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Wineskins Letter
From Office of the General Assembly—Office of Governing Body Relations
The New Wineskins Association of Churches has raised significant questions about the faith and mission of the church that every Presbyterian should take seriously. NWAC has presented its case in A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: Report of the Strategy Team of the New Wineskins Association of Churches. Unfortunately, in advancing their case New Wineskins has presented the positions of the PCUSA inaccurately. As they consider the analysis of NWAC, all Presbyterians deserve to know the defined positions of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
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