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History of interdenominational and interfaith cooperation, including the work conducted by the following organizations: Religious News Service, National Council of the Churches of Christ, American and Foreign Christian Union, American Sunday School Union, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Home Missions Council of North America. Featured image: Delegates of the World's First Religious Parliament, Art Palace, Chicago, Illinois, September 21, 1893.

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Title:
Montreat Conference Center.
Description:
Montreat Conference Center is one of three national conference centers affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), annually visited by over 35,000 people seeking physical and spiritual renewal in the beautiful mountains of western North Carolina. The conference center is under the management of the Mountain Retreat Association, which formed in 1905 and is a church-related institute.
Creator:
Mountain Retreat Association (Montreat, N.C.) (creator)
Subject names:
Mountain Retreat Association (Montreat, N.C.)
Topics:
Spiritual retreats--Presbyterian Church., Spiritual retreats--North Carolina--Montreat., Church camps--North Carolina--Montreat., Church conference centers--North Carolina--Montreat.
Geographic subjects:
Montreat (N.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130163
Title:
Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center.
Description:
Web site of the Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center, an interfaith education and retreat center of the Presbyterian Church (USA), located in a northern New Mexico landscape many deem sacred.
Creator:
Ghost Ranch (Abiquiu, N.M.) (creator)
Subject names:
Ghost Ranch (Abiquiu, N.M.)
Topics:
Spiritual retreats--Christianity., Spiritual retreats--New Mexico--Abiquiu., Church camps--New Mexico--Abiquiu., Interfaith worship--New Mexico--Abiquiu.
Geographic subjects:
Abiquiu (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130161
Title:
Stony Point Center.
Description:
Web site of the Stony Point Center. More than a conference center, this is a place of simple accommodations, sustainable values and a spirit of hospitality. The Center is welcoming across boundaries by providing overnight and day-use accommodations and meeting spaces for individuals and groups. It nurtures an inclusive community by respecting the uniqueness of each person. They practice courageous conversations, study of sacred texts, faithful action, and the creative arts. The Center also cultivates peace and justice by supporting the multifaith movement for nonviolence and eco-social justice. They engage in networking, human rights accompaniment, advocacy, coalition building, and nonviolent direct action.
Creator:
Stony Point Center (Stony Point, N.Y.) (creator)
Subject names:
Stony Point Center (Stony Point, N.Y.)
Topics:
Church conference centers--New York--Stony Point., Spiritual retreats--New York--Stony Point., Interfaith worship--New York--Stony Point., Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Green movement--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Stony Point (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130139
Title:
New Wilmington Mission Conference.
Description:
Web site of New Wilmington Mission Conference (NWMC). NWMC is dedicated to helping believers discern their call to be a "missionary," whether in their homes, schools, and jobs, in the local church, or in far away countries. As a result, NWMC provides programming for all ages, infants through adults. Families, youth groups, mission-minded individuals, pastors, lay people and missionaries all have a place at the New Wilmington Mission Conference.
Creator:
New Wilmington Mission Conference. (creator)
Subject names:
New Wilmington Mission Conference.
Topics:
Church conference centers--Pennsylvania--New Wilmington., Church camps--Pennsylvania--New Wilmington., Spiritual retreats--Pennsylvania--New Wilmington., Spiritual retreats--Presbyterian Church., Presbyterian Church--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
New Wilmington (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130116
Title:
Lakeshore Center.
Description:
Web site of the Lakeshore Center at Okoboji Camp and Retreat Center. The Lakeshore Center at Okoboji provides a sacred place and invites all to experience the life-changing love of Christ in the beauty of God's creation. It opened in the summer of 1956, and served as a summer camp for youth and adults until 2009. In 2009, the Center became the year round facility it is today.
Creator:
Lakeshore Center (Milford Site, Iowa) (creator)
Subject names:
Lakeshore Center (Milford Site, Iowa)
Topics:
Spiritual retreats--Iowa--Milford Site., Church camps--Iowa--Milford Site., Church conference centers--Iowa--Milford Site.
Geographic subjects:
Milford (Iowa)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130070
Title:
The Outreach Foundation.
Description:
Web site of The Outreach Foundation. For nearly 40 years The Outreach Foundation has connected Christians in the United States with church partners around the world. They help their global partners train leaders, start new congregations, expand their outreach programs, and strengthen their ministries of compassion. They raise funds to support missionaries, projects and partners who are sharing God's love in word and deed.
Creator:
Outreach Foundation. (creator)
Subject names:
Outreach Foundation.
Topics:
Missions., Church consultation--United States., Church growth--United States., Christian leadership--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Franklin (Tenn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130064
Title:
Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest.
Description:
Web site of the Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest. This Historical Society exists to "stimulate and encourage interest in the collection, preservation, and presentation of the Presbyterian and Reformed heritage in the four state area" of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. It encourages congregations to establish a heritage committee, preserve church records on microfilm or microfiche, celebrate anniversaries by writing histories of their work, and sketches of some of the saints of the church. It is an agency of the Synod of the Sun of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Creator:
Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Southwestern States--History., Church history--Societies, etc.
Geographic subjects:
Arkansas., Louisiana., Oklahoma., Texas.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130023
Title:
Mo-Ranch Christian Conference Center & Summer Camp.
Description:
Web site of Mo-Ranch, a Christian conference center, summer camp and spiritual retreat facilities nestled in the Texas Hill Country. The mission of Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly is to foster growth in God through Jesus Christ by sharing its unique living, learning, Christian environment.
Creator:
Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly.
Topics:
Spiritual retreats--Presbyterian Church., Spiritual retreats--Texas--Hunt., Church camps--Texas--Hunt., Church conference centers--Texas--Hunt.
Geographic subjects:
Hunt (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130021
Title:
Agricultural Missions, Inc.
Description:
Web site of Agricultural Missions, Inc., a steadfast response to rural poverty and injustice. Their mission is to support people of all faiths and spiritual consciousness around the world in the struggle to end the poverty and injustice that affect rural communities and work towards the creation of a peaceful and sustainable community.
Creator:
Agricultural Missions, Inc. (New York, N.Y.) (creator)
Subject names:
Agricultural Missions, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)
Topics:
Missions--Agricultural work., Rural missions., Church work with the poor.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129960
Title:
Unbound:
Description:
Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian Social Justice (\u201cUnbound\u201d) is an online journal and community that examines, expresses, and provokes social justice as inspired by the prophetic gospel of Jesus Christ. As both a journal and a forum for conversation, action and community building, Unbound is at once the inheritor of the print journal Church and Society (98 years running) and the innovator of an interactive approach to supporting social ministry. The journal is freely available, and four to six times a year, it issues a theme-based collection of articles written by academics, clergy, lay-leaders, and practitioners.
Topics:
Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity., Electronic journals., Electronic discussion groups., Christian literature.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129948
Title:
Zephyr Point - Lake Tahoe Conference & Retreat Center.
Description:
Web site of Zephyr Point, a year-round Presbyterian Conference Center nestled in the Sierra Nevada providing rental facilities and conferences on inspirational Lake Tahoe.
Creator:
Zephyr Point (Zephyr Cove, Nev.) (creator)
Subject names:
Zephyr Point (Zephyr Cove, Nev.)
Topics:
Church conference centers--Nevada--Zephyr Cove., Spiritual retreats--Presbyterian Church., Spiritual retreats--Nevada--Zephyr Cove., Church camps--Nevada--Zephyr Cove.
Geographic subjects:
Zephyr Cove (Nev.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129936
Title:
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.
Description:
Web site of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, a wide network of peacemakers who engage issues of both national and international import. The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship started in the 1940s as a group that provided support to Conscientious Objectors to World War II, a war in which objection was quite unpopular. Since then, they have continued to be a prophetic voice in our church, urging the abolition of war and encouraging our sisters and brothers to enact peace in the midst of our broken world. They have helped lead the PC(USA) to take bold stances in the face of violence.
Creator:
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.
Topics:
Pacifism--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Peace--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Gun control--United States., Arab-Israeli conflict.
Geographic subjects:
Stony Point (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129909
Title:
Mission Crossroads PC(USA).
Description:
Mission Crossroads is a web-based wisdom community which facilitates networking among mission participants, aids communication among members of mission-related groups, and provides a forum in which those engaged in mission may share ideas and experiences, both good and bad, so that future mission endeavors can be more effective.
Creator:
Mission Crossroads PC(U.S.A.) (creator)
Subject names:
Mission Crossroads PC(U.S.A.)
Topics:
Electronic discussion groups., Presbyterian Church--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129906

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