By Rev. Eugenia A. Gamble Prepare! Arise! Shine! Your Light Comes! Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the contrast between light and darkness, love and hate, beauty and despair as clearly defined as in this present moment. In times of conflict and turmoil, both personal and global, God knows our deep need …
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Gregory A. Goodwiller, Synod Executive I have devoted a good bit of my vocational life to the development and implementation of policies, procedures, bylaws, and rules. That kind of work has always come very naturally to me, and I’ve always seen it as part of what I have to offer the churches and councils …
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By Rev. James Gale It feels like the last couple of years have given interim ministry a bad name. Everywhere I turn, there are articles about how interim ministry has lost its way or conversations about how the interim process can stall a church. In my experience, it is true that in far too …
By Steve Young Each morning, across 28 nations in over one thousand communities, men and women begin their day operating a Living Waters for the World purification system. Their faithfulness, day after day, week after week, month after month, is an expression of hope lived out, a very real giving of life itself. Because reliable …
By Rev. Ann Laird Jones Like all good celestial collision paths, Christmas Eve 2023 brings the incarnational arc as close together as imaginably possible. In the morning on December 24 we wake up to Advent 4. By afternoon we are zooming towards Christmas Eve. Purple paraments yield to white. The now-complete circular Advent wreath …
By Rev. Eugenia A. Gamble I never thought it would be like this. When I was unexpectedly thrust into retirement after thirty-five years of pastoral ministry due to complications from what should have been a routine surgery, I was ill prepared in every possible way. The church has always formed the rhythms of my life. …
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By Althea Jerome The high school youth in my home church are an inspiration. They enjoy spending time together. They support one another in their school activities, celebrating one another’s accomplishments. This group includes individuals who are involved in sports, band, debate team and show choir. Recently, we met for a conversation about …
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 …
By Rev. Eugenia A. Gamble A child of the Synod of Living Waters, Alexandra Hutson grew up in First Presbyterian Church in Tuscaloosa Alabama. “My family joined FPC when I was seven years old. We were always welcome there and it was the one place throughout my school years where I knew I could always …
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Upon the 2017 closing of Nicholasville Presbyterian Church (Nicholasville, Kentucky), the Presbytery of Transylvania committed to continuing the nearly 200-year ministry of that congregation by establishing a New Worshiping Community in Nicholasville. Opening earlier this year, Urban Village is that legacy ministry. Located in the old post office in downtown Nicholasville, the mission of Urban …
