Summer Food Service Program flourishing in Columbia, PA
Vicki VanSickle knows about hunger. For a time many years ago, she was raising two boys on her own, and when it came time for a meal, they ate and she didn’t. Now, she’s trying to make sure no one else has to go through what she and her children went through. Vicki is the…
Disability Inclusion Sunday more than yearly outreach for Chartiers Hill United PC
Every congregation seems to have its own niche. Maybe it’s the free breakfast it prepares for the community once a month. Or maybe it’s the garden it cultivates that provides food for the community. Or maybe it’s the prayer shawl ministry that distributes handmade comfort items to the sick. For Chartiers Hill United Presbyterian Church…
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Synod’s Governing Commission ready to lead
There were many highlights at the Synod of the Trinity’s Assembly Meeting in State College, PA, in late June, from discussions about civil unrest and race relations to roundtable talks among commissioners to times of communion and listening to spiritually-moving sermons and devotions. Another key component to the two-day meeting was the formation of the…
Five congregations call Ruffner Memorial PC home in Charleston, WV
“Be careful what you pray for.” That could very easily be the slogan for Ruffner Memorial Presbyterian Church in Charleston, WV, these days. A once overflowing congregation that had some 800 worshipers on a given Sunday morning in the 1960s has seen that number dwindle to around 40 in 2015, leaving a vast church building…
Prayer Shawl Ministry getting job done anonymously
Susan Remely will admit she doesn’t know how it’s getting done. But through the grace of God, it is. “It” is the Prayer Shawl Ministry that has been thriving at Southminster Presbyterian Church near Pittsburgh. For over a decade, the Prayer Shawl Ministry has been creating knitted comfort shawls for people with illnesses or those…
Rev. Fred Milligan has found a new home in Chile
The Rev. Fred Milligan Jr. is a bit of a nomad. Moving from place to place, he has lived in eight states, spending time in anywhere from Portland, OR, to the Caribbean Island of St. Croix preaching the gospel and serving the church of Jesus Christ. So it seems fitting that after 37 years of…
Synod Transitional Executive Susan Wonderland responds to Charleston tragedy
When the news surrounding the events in Charleston, S.C., broke last week, many took to the internet to share their pain, their outrage, their disbelief and their solidarity with those affected most deeply. Posts by entities in the church ran the gamut of calling us a broken society to a need for prayer to declaring…
Synod Assembly Meeting for October 2015
The Synod of the Trinity Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Synod of the Trinity Assembly Meeting October 5, 2015 (convenes at 10 a.m.) – October 6, 2015 (adjourns by noon) The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel – 215 Innovation Blvd., State College, PA 16803 Docket Dated: September 25, 2015 DOWNLOAD DOCKET HERE (All paperwork will be available…
Moderator Barbara Chaapel offers challenge following gun violence in Charleston
What follows are the opening remarks made by Synod of the Trinity Moderator Barbara Chaapel at the Synod’s Assembly Meeting on June 22. We come today with heavy hearts and disturbed minds in the wake of the violence and death in Charleston. That violent act, a sign of the conflict and hatred in our society,…