by Gail Strange | Presbyterian News Service
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters via Unsplash
LOUISVILLE â Itâs been almost a year since most of the employees of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) packed up their offices and left the building because of COVID-19. While the building is open only on a limited basis, customer service employees who work at the Presbyterian Center are actively engaged and continue to be available to assist Presbyterians from across the country.
On March 24, 2020, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced he would sign an executive order closing all non-life-sustaining businesses to in-person traffic by Thursday, March 26, 2020.
In response to Beshearâs order, Kathy Lueckert, president of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation, said, âAs members of this community, we will honor this request. Effective Friday, March 27, 2020, the Presbyterian Center will no longer be open.â
Young Lee Hertig, ISAAC cofounder and executive director.
When Janette Ok was growing up in Michigan, her family’s Korean church hired a woman to lead its English-speaking ministries. Seeing pastor Mary Paik administer the sacraments and send her congregation off with a benediction each week offered Ok “tangible evidence that despite what people said, women could and should preach and pastor.”
“It was this image that I really clung to during the drought of exposure to Asian American female preachers that I experienced for years afterwards,” said Ok, now a pastor and New Testament professor at Fuller Theological Seminary. “I did not see another one for years after we moved to California.”
Hugh Gould Nevin Jr.
SLINGERLANDS The Reverend Dr. Hugh Gould Nevin Jr. of Slingerlands died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 one week shy of his 88th birthday after a battle with cancer.
“Hugh was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Gould Nevin, a successful banker, and Eda McCoy Nevin, a vibrant Wellesley College grad,” his family wrote in a tribute. “Both his father and mother were descendants of the original Scots-Irish settlers of western Pennsylvania. (Hugh had a passionate interest in family genealogy, his history of the Nevin family name becoming one of his two published books.) Pittsburgh also left its mark on Hugh as a life-long Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers fan!”
by Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service
The Rev. Katie Todd preaches during UKirk Sunday in March 2019 at Alamance Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Photo by Danny Thomas)
LOUISVILLE â The eventual idea to provide Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations with a video worship service for use after Easter this year came to the Rev. Katie Barrett Todd in the playroom of her house, which is just above the garage.
It was May 2020. She and her husband, also a pastor, were three months into the pandemic. And she was editing yet another weekly worship service video, this time for her husband, Mason.
Former co-moderators will discuss white supremacy during advocacy webinar
January 25, 2021
Cintrón-Olivieri and Anderson will be guests on the second episode of âWhere Do We Go from Here?â
by Rich Copley | Presbyterian News Service
The Rev. Denise Anderson, co-moderator of the 222nd General Assembly, and Ruling Elder Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri, co-moderator of the 223rd GA, will be the guests Thursday on the PC(USA) advocacy webinar, “Where Do We Go from Here?” (Photos Michael Whitman and Rich Copley)
LEXINGTON, Kentucky â Two former co-moderators of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly will join the Office of Public Witness/Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations for a discussion about white supremacy and the intersection of racism and gender inequality.