Reformed ministers in Switzerland take steps to meet the Jerusalema Dance Challenge
February 23, 2021
Dance craze to top-rated South African song with phrases like âSave me! Come with me! Donât leave me here!â is sweeping most of the world â except the US
by Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service
Holding plates to convey a sense of happiness despite the difficulties they face, this dance group from Angola started the Jerusalema Dance Challenge (Photo courtesy of Fenomenos de Semba dance group)
LOUISVILLE â âHow would you like an uplifting story?â
The question came in an email from the Rev. Catherine McMillan, a minister of the Reformed Church of Zürich in Switzerland.
Buried in the church columbarium
February 17, 2021
By confessing the story of a racist gift, a Cincinnati congregation takes the first step in dismantling structural racism
by Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service
CINCINNATI â The gift of $22,000, which after legal fees would be worth around $250,000 in todayâs dollars, was given to Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati exactly 100 years ago to aid the congregation in constructing a new church. But according to Knoxâs pastor, the Rev. Adam Fronczek, there was âsome loreâ in the congregation about the gift, which came from a woman who wanted to be buried inside the walls of the church.
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.
by Paul Seebeck | Presbyterian News Service
This fall, 20 cohorts were offered by the Christian Formation Partner Association Collective.
LOUISVILLE â Gina Yeager-Buckley came away from her experience coaching the Presbyterian Youth Workers Association (PYWA) cohort for the Office of Christian Formation dramatically changed.
âIâm excited again, renewed,â she said. âIt took me back to my love and passion for youth ministry.â
Gina Yeager-Buckley
From the start, Yeager-Buckleyâs PYWA cohort â one of 20 cohorts offered this fall by members of the Christian Formation Partner Association Collective â clicked and became important to cohort members.
She said members in the cohort really talked and listened to each other, using one of the principles of holy listening: no interruption. It worked so well that the cohort is planning on getting together for an informal gathering in 2021.