The Rev. Teresa Cho, pastor of St. John’s Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, hated her middle name as a child. “Eungyong literally means ‘silver bells’ and I thought, ‘Oh great, another thing to be teased about at school ― Teresa Silver Bells Cho,’” she told 5,300 youth and their leaders at a July 18 outdoor worship service at the 2013 Presbyterian Youth Triennium on the campus of Purdue University here.
More than five thousand participants—5,241 as of July 9 and counting—will gather for next week’s 2013 Presbyterian Youth Triennium, held July 16–20 at Purdue University.