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With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, churches have been forced to cancel in-person worship and instead meet electronically (if possible). The act of passing the offering plate is both an important part of worship and a familiar way of...

When I was a senior in high school, one gray day in November, the loudspeaker in the classroom came on suddenly and the news came on of the shooting of President Kennedy and went to church that night. During my...

COVID-19 is changing the way the world interacts and the church is not immune to those changes. Amid social distancing and shelter in place orders, many churches have either canceled worship or moved to a virtual form of worship. Pastors...

Editor's Note: This story was written and posted on Thursday, March 12. Situations have changed since this initial article was written. We will update this story as we are able. Presbyterian seminaries are taking action to prevent the spread of...

[caption id="attachment_6807" align="alignright" width="124"] Anita Clemons, Vice President, Managing Director of Investments[/caption] We enjoyed a bull market for quite a long while. Now, the stock market is balancing out – and we’re all feeling the effects. Thanks to Coronavirus and...

Packaging thousands of meals to feed the hungry goes a lot faster when music is playing. As feel-good hits from Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neil Diamond and Michael Jackson played from a loud speaker in a corner of the Fellowship Hall,...

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. (Matthew 4:1) Uncertainty and Wilderness Choices It was a bit of a marathon trip to Mexico as part of the Presbyterian Foundation Board...

Editor’s note: We asked Minner Serovy, ministry relations officer for the Presbyterian Foundation, to reflect back on her career in ministry within the PC(USA). She retires at the end of February. She’s provided us with some terrific and hopeful observations....

When Rev. Joseph Moore looks toward the future of the church he sees one of hope and possibility. Moore is the Presbyterian Foundation’s new Ministry Relations Officer for the South Central Region, replacing Sherry Kenney, who recently retired. His territory...

During my six and a half years with the Presbyterian Foundation, I visited at least two hundred different churches throughout the states of Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and the little slice of Nebraska in the South Central region I...