Associate Pastor–First Presbyterian Church–Vero Beach, FL

…committees, and providing pastoral care to members of the Congregation. In addition, the Associate Pastor will directly manage and oversee growing youth and young family ministries programs. This position encourages and supports the multi-generational ministry of the church, and through it connects the body of Christ across all age groups. The Associate Pastor will serve as a generalist in the …

“I Wanna Be Whole” Luke 17:1-19

…hoped for, and the evidence – certainty – of things not seen. The one leper received spiritual healing because of his faith. I submit to you that there is a vast difference between being healed and made whole. Ten were cleansed but only one was made whole. Nine had new dermatology — one had new theology Nine had new careers …

Congratulations to Alumna Rev. Dr. Angela Sims (Ph.D.’08), Newly Inaugurated President of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

…about self-nurture, self-care. People will need you. People will depend upon you. People will argue with you. People will challenge you. And yes, people will support you. But in the end, the one person, the only person who can guarantee your spiritual, mental, and physical well-being is you. Identify your quiet, safe space. Nurture it. Put boundaries around it. And …

Appreciation of Music Is Motivation for Gift to Watts Organ Fund

This is post 2 of 5 in the series “Sharon&Brook Summer 2019” Strengthening Faith Formation Among Children Appreciation of Music Is Motivation for Gift to Watts Organ Fund Remembering James H. Smylie Worship, Ecology, and Community Revisited The Gargoyle Speaks: Unscheduled Beauty   2019 SUMMER ISSUE / GRADUATION The Campaign for a New Pipe Organ Dr. Earl Trevathan is not …

Ghana Travel Seminar: Touching the lives of children and teenagers

…Ghana Travel Seminar: Singing without words Ghana Travel Seminar: Handcrafts with personality and stories Ghana Travel Seminar: Touching the lives of children and teenagers Ghana Travel Seminar: Hospitality and kindness Ghana Travel Seminar: Love and anger are the key BY CAROLYN PEGRAM Oh, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Psalm 133:1 The …

Ghana Travel Seminar: Elimina Slave Castle

…slaves to the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbeans. It has stood for some 530 years. Built by the Portuguese, taken by the Dutch, sold to the British, and relinquished to the Ghanaians in 1957 when they gained their independence. There were some three million Africans captured for shipment through Elmina. Of the three million, 1/3 were killed in the forest …

Alec Powell: The Unconventional Call

…Moultrie, Georgia. Not only was this his first paid job and ministry experience, it was also the first time he had lived in a place other than his home and college town of Clinton, South Carolina. “I didn’t know anyone. It was the first time I could just be Alec,” he recalls. Powell’s role as DCE involved caring for a …

Congregational Corner: When the world changed

…pray for and long for the day when we can say that we are not only the United States of America, but the United Kingdom of God. Alumna Jordan B. Davis is associate pastor for youth and young adults at Kirk of Kildaire Presbyterian Church in Cary, North Carolina, and editor of Congregational Corner. Photo by Axel Houmadi on Unsplash …

Colleen Earp: Camping, conservation, and chickens

…fills a lot of different needs for the camp and presbytery but also includes the environment in ways they haven’t before. She runs youth programming, manages service projects, and heads environmental programs at the camp and the presbytery. During summer camp, Earp is focused on nature education at camp. Earp helps Camp Hanover raise and care for animals every summer. …

Union matters! podcast: God and the sanctuary movement

This is post 7 of 9 in the series “Union matters! podcast” Expanding access to healthy food: Shalom Farms at Union Helping cops cope with traumatic violence: VALEAP Marking milestones at The Presbyterian Outlook Memory sanctions & Confederate statues The rise of Womanism: Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon Understanding Muslims: Dr. Zeyneb Sayilgan Union matters! podcast: God and the sanctuary movement …

Congregational Corner: Mercy Calls

…we might all seek ways to share God’s mercy on our way to “home” and in that way, we might usher in the Kingdom of God here on earth and all high-five and say “Good game, y’all!” Alumna Jordan B. Davis is transitional associate pastor at Kirk of Kildaire Presbyterian Church in Cary, North Carolina, and editor of Congregational Corner. …

Congregational Corner: A prayer for youth pastors

…to this ministry, but God – we need you to get us through this summer, because fall is coming sooner than we would like… In Christ’s name, who probably forgot his toothbrush as well, we pray. Amen. Alumna Jordan B. Davis is transitional associate pastor at Kirk of Kildaire Presbyterian Church in Cary, North Carolina, and editor of Congregational Corner. …

Middle East Travel Seminar: Following Jesus around the Sea of Galilee

…disciples to bring some of their catch to be grilled. After lunch, our final visit took us to Capernaum where Jesus also carried out his ministry. It was a bustling city of three-to-five thousand people, a hub of commerce for caravans of traders. It was a crossroads for Jews and Gentiles. Jesus taught in the synagogue that now lies in …

5 African-American students to graduate

…Edloe Graduating with a Th.M. is the Rev. Dr. Leonard Edloe. Leonard has had a long career as a pharmacist and has pastored New Hope Fellowship for many years. Edloe asserts that the most important thing he learned at Union is the conscientization process, taught by Dr. Katie Cannon that allows him to use theological resources to develop norm clarifications …

Middle East Travel Seminar: Sacred ground above the Dead Sea

…Middle East Travel Seminar: Diverse cultural perspectives in Roman-era Zippori Middle East Travel Seminar: A day of memory, history, hope… and sweets! Middle East Travel Seminar: The Western Wall, Temple Mount, and Dome of the Rock BY ARDY SKIDMORE We started our day saying goodbye to Jordan. We loved our time in this beautiful country and will carry many memories …

Middle East Travel Seminar: Scrolls, mud, salt and temptation

…have been the one that Zacchaeus used to get a “better look” (Luke 19:1-10)? We made a brief stop at a glass factory to purchase some fine craft and the best dates on the planet, then went back to the hotel for the night. After dinner, our sweet Becky Jones offered a beautiful send off to Carson Brisson and four …

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Rev. Mitri Raheb brings message of hope to Charlotte campus

By Gail Henderson, M.Div. student Dr. Mitri Raheb – I had only recently heard about him, about his wisdom, his perspective, his experiences, and his writing. His work and his testimony had been recommended to me less than a month before he came to speak at Union Presbyterian Seminary here in Charlotte, North Carolina. What a gift he was to …

A Litany of Embodied Justice

…that the injustices and injuries clinging to our lives may be willfully and knowingly wiped away— that we might embody that for which we pray. Unity, unity. Let us pray. Let us pray for justice, let us lift all voices together, shouting for freedom and equity— all people, times, and places— ‘til the way of the earth bends and all …

Muslim refugee history to be discussed amid global immigration debate

…in the Christian Kingdom of Abyssinia: Implications for Christian-Muslim Relations Today,” will take place in Lake Chapel at the Early Center, 1106 Westwood Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia. It is free and open to the public. The Migration to Abyssinia, present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea, in the year 613 was an episode in early Islamic history where the first Muslims fled from …

Alice Walker to keynote Center for Womanist Leadership gathering

RICHMOND, Va. (January 23, 2018) – Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” will keynote the Bearing Witness to Womanism inaugural gathering, in Richmond, Virginia, April 5-7, 2018. The event is sponsored by the Center for Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. Walker’s keynote is free and will …