Eight months ago our friend and colleague, Rev. Dr. Steve Hayner, President of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He has endured many rounds of treatment and is now awaiting the opportunity to participate in trial drug therapies. Please renew your prayers today for Steve, his wife Sharol, and their…
By Mary Holder Naegeli A person with cancer often becomes isolated; I have observed that my world has become smaller since November 4. Before I got sick, I was traveling to Kenya and Uganda on vacation. Now it is a major field trip to walk twenty minutes around the block surrounding my house. Pretty much…
Mary Holder Naegeli Presbyterians use the term “discerning one’s call” to refer to the process of figuring out one’s vocation. In the Presbyterian/Reformed Tradition, that call is sensed not only by the ministerial candidate personally but by the Presbytery’s Committee on Preparation for Ministry and ultimately by a congregation that desires to call a candidate…