By Carolyn Krause In April 2025, First Presbyterian Church of Oak Ridge donated $30,000 of its former Belize Fund to the Holston Presbytery. The purpose was to provide relief to individuals in northeastern Tennessee who suffered damages to their homes from flooding induced by Hurricane Helene last year. The donation was made for two reasons. …
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By Susan Sumrall, Stated Clerk, Presbytery of Mississippi March 24, 2023 – It was a dark and stormy night… NO, it wasn’t; the high school prom was that night. People had gathered for Friday night dinner at Chuck’s Dairy Bar. It was life as usual until about 8:00 P.M. when the heavens opened and the …
By Hardie Frankel, Winward Committee Member Today I received the 2025 Presbyterian Women Birthday Offering brochure. One of the annual recipients is the Presbyterian Disaster (PDA) Volunteer Host Site, Windward, the housing facility at the Leland Presbyterian Church in Leland, Mississippi. This project almost didn’t get funded, but God had other plans. You see, Windward …
By Rev. Karen Russell The initial panic of having a hurricane come to the Appalachian Mountains has subsided a bit. Since the arrival of Helene in our midst, Holston Presbytery, with the generous help from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA), churches and presbyteries within the Synod of Living Waters, and individuals and churches from around the …
Pastor Kim Van Brimmer, Orange Beach Presbyterian Church On Friday night I made one last phone call to the church member who was heading up the church work day the very next day. “I’m not sure how many people will be there – we might have ten, we might have twenty. We’ll just have to …
It’s been over 2 ½ years since an EF-4 tornado ripped through Kentucky destroying lives and property for thousands of people impacted. Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) has been working with the Presbytery and the communities on recovery effort since the storm hit in December 2021. PDA Director Rev Edwin Gonzalez and Rev Jim Kirk recently …
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In July 2023, a group of 13 volunteers from the WKY Presbytery embarked on a mission trip to Buckhorn, Kentucky, to participate in Camp Noah. This week-long camp was designed to provide healing and support to children impacted by the devastating floods of 2022. With generous donations and volunteer efforts from the WKY Presbytery, Camp Noah was able to serve …
Rev. Ann Kelly, Leland Presbyterian Church “Rowboat or Sailboat?” asks the title of Chapter 3 in Joan Gray’s Spiritual Leadership for Church Officers. After studying that chapter. the Session of Leland Presbyterian Church in Leland Mississippi agreed that we are a rowboat church. What’s more, we are extremely comfortable rowing. We know the resources that we …
Leland Presbyterian Church welcomed four members of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance National Response Team on Sunday, October 29, as part of a commissioning ceremony for the church’s recently established disaster recovery volunteer host site as well as for the site’s coordinator. The host site, called Windward, was established following the devastating F-4 tornado that leveled …
Ralph Young, Executive Presbyter Ralph Young, Presbytery Executive writes “The Presbytery of Western Kentucky is thankful for its Tornado Recovery Team! This team has been working to help victims of the December 2021 tornados since January 2022. They have been coordinating efforts to connect churches with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and other relief agencies. The team is currently managing …
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