By Melissa Barnhart World Vision U.S. President Richard Stearns expressed grief over the child sponsorships that were canceled after the organization announced its original policy change on hiring those in same-sex marriages. After receiving feedback from supporters and faith leaders who were opposed to World Vision’s decision to employ Christians who are in same-sex marriages,…
What are your summer plans — and the plans for your church youth and young adults? Consider a service camp in Joplin, Mo. Nearly three years after a tornado devastated the community, a Presbyterian church has revamped itself from “emergency outpost” that hosted thousands of volunteers in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 tornado into…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Based on a recommendation of its Justice Committee, the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board (PMAB) approved membership in and affiliation with the Ecumenical Poverty Initiative, the successor organization to the former National Council of Churches (NCC) Poverty Initiative. In the committee meeting, J. Herbert Nelson, who heads the denomination’s Office of Public Witness…
Knowing the symptoms of poverty is one thing. Getting at its root cause is something else entirely. That was the focus of a small-group discussion at the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board (PMAB) meeting held in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 25-27. Led by Greg Allen-Pickett, Andrew Kang Bartlett, Ruth Farrell and Valery Nodem, the discussion centered on…