Reports and study guides

At the beginning of 2012, the Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, PC(USA) Director for Public Witness identified two significant challenges for the PC(USA) Office of Public Witness. The first aimed to show what this ministry does. That is, the OPW seeks to serve the whole church, not just a self-selected affinity group. The second was how to balance the richness of our past with the promise of our future. Nelson wrote, “It is clear to me that outreach to, and service with, young adults is essential to meeting both challenges.” This report was produced in 2015.

This document includes:

• Hospitality House: Overview and Vision
• 15 Things to Consider as you Launch Hospitality House
• Volunteers Exploring Vocation Discernment Journal
• Facilitator's Resource Book: Volunteer's Exploring Vocation
• Rules for Community Living
• Hospitality Houses featured in webinar: Bethany Presbyterian House of Hospitality (Trenton, NJ), The Common House (Waynesburg, PA), and AYAVA House (Austin, TX)
• Contact information for Sponsors and Panelists

Tributes, Districts, Reapings and Mockingjays … The Hunger Games trilogy is ready to commence in your youth room!

Join the millions of readers, young and not so young, in entering this fantastic and powerful story of a post-apocolyptic world dependent on its young to survive. 

You are invited to use this free resource, developed by two Presbyterian youth workers, to explore themes of courage, friendship and alliance!