Meeting Sunday, the Bills and Overtures Committee voted 19-0 to refer eight commissioner resolutions to other committees of the 225th General Assembly for their consideration.
Thirty-five Presbyterian women, including 11 young adults, will attend the 59th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York in March. The delegation is organized through a partnership involving the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations, Racial Ethnic & Women’s Ministries, and Presbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Presbyterian presence is possible because the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is accredited to the United Nations through the Economic and Social Council.
For Mrs. Tout Tou Bounthapanya, the Rev. Khampheng Mitpasa, and the Rev. Sharon Stanley, clean water is deeply personal. Three of a team preparing for a Living Waters for the World (LWW) clean water system installation in Laos, they each know what it is for life to depend upon clean water.
The three are attending LWW’s inaugural Clean Water U West, at Calvin Crest Conferences in Oakhurst, Calif.
Clean Water U is the training program of Living Waters for the World — a ministry of the Synod of Living Waters — “where volunteers learn to be trainers to …
Clean water is now flowing at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Matanzas, Cuba, because of Presbyterians living up to the very name of their synod — Living Waters — and the gospel compassion behind it.
A group of Presbyterians from First-Trinity Presbyterian Church in Laurel, MS, recently returned from Matanzas, where they installed a new water-filtration system, celebrated the achievement with residents and pondered the spirit of Jesus behind it all.
“It’s mind-boggling to think of those words of Jesus: ‘I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink,’ ” said Verniece Goode, a First-Trinity member who …