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First Presbyterian Church of Lansing, Mich., Pastor Stanley Jenkins, regarding the proposal by Willye Bryan to collect money from her church, with a predominantly white congregation, for a grassroots effort of reparations. The church ended up raising $100,000 over the course of 10 years and individual congregants gave $80,000. The initiative became known as the Justice League of Greater Lansing and has collected around $400,000 in less than three years. (NPR — May 1, 2024)

The First Presbyterian Church in Lansing, Michigan has kept its promise to pay reparations for the Black community. The church most recently provided a $40,000 check to the Justice League Of Greater Lansing, an organization that collects reparations for the city’s Black community. The latest contribution comes after the church previously raised $18,000 for the… Continue reading Michigan Church Keeps Its Promise To Pay $100K In Reparations To The Local Black Community: ‘We Wa...

A church in Lansing, Michigan has pledged to raising $100,000 in reparations for the Black community in their town and give money for up to ten years.

The First Presbyterian Church of Lansing raised the money as an act of "repentance, reconciliation, and reparations" for African Americans in their city.

A Lansing, Michigan church is delivering on its promise to raise reparations funds for the Black community. The First Presbyterian Church of Lansing handed ...

Michigan State University introduced Kevin Guskiewicz as its 22nd president in a press conference Monday. MSU trustees selected Guskiewicz, the chancellor of the University of North …

Four new “Along the Road” podcast episodes were released in October, two from the “Encounter” series for mid council and church leaders and two “Nourish” episodes for deacons and ruling elders.

In the Directory for Worship of the Book of Order, the charge, as a part of the act of sending, is described in this way: “We are blessed to be a blessing to others...”

While I was a professor with the Lansing Community College writing program, part of my job was to help grade students’ writing. Their writing was keyed to class assignments. The one I hated was the one where students were assigned to write about a photograph.

A church created before the U.S. Civil War stands tall today in downtown Lansing. But with its age comes a decline in members.