Here are the top ten reasons why you should answer the call to serve as our Stated Clerk of Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery! Compiled by the Search Team for the Stated Clerk. 1. The timing is fantastic! As…
Wow, is it really summer already??? The staff has been hard at work these last several months in overhauling our financial accounting systems, streamlining the operations of our teams and committees, and resourcing our pastors and ministries…
In Deuteronomy 24:19-21, the law makes special provision for crops overlooked by harvesters to be left in the fields where they are. Farmers are instructed not to harvest all the way to the edges of their land,…
Why are mental health awareness and mental health care important? While 14k die in the US from hunger each year, approximately 8 million die from mental health variances yearly, but this is not something we talk about. 67 percent…
May Mental Health Awareness Blogs brought to you by Light 4 the Darkness The Uninvited Guest just appears–entitled, bossy and ever so critical. They follow me incessantly, like flies on dung, and know just what to say…
On March 28-31, Ryan Landino, Liz Kanerva, and Joy Myers all attended a pilgrimage to Montgomery, Alabama. They are so grateful for the opportunity to have experiences like this where they can be enriched in our work…
Have fun serving God while in fellowship with Church friends! Overnight or One-Day Mission Trip for Youth (going into 6th grade through graduating seniors). Do you love campfires and smores or just want to put your hands…
Yesterday, I was horrified to hear the news of yet another mass shooting, this time approximately two blocks from the national offices of the Presbyterian Church (USA), where our colleagues’ work was put on hold while they…
”And suddenly there was a great earthquake…” (the rolling of the stone from the tomb, Matthew 28:2) “I have seen the Lord!’ (Mary Magdalene to the disciples, John 20:18) “Suddenly Jesus met them and said, ‘Greetings!’” (Matthew…
Since arriving here as your presbytery leader, learning your sacred stories, who you are, and the circumstances that have shaped you, I continue to hear about the 2018 trip that several of you took to Montgomery, Alabama…
