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Title: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
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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
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Title:Description:Web site of the Presbyterian Writers Guild, a network of individuals who value writing as a Christian ministry. The community contains members from across the country who seek to nurture their skills and support each other in \u201ctelling the story\u201d through a wide variety of communication vehicles.Creator:Presbyterian Writers Guild. (creator)Subject names:Presbyterian Writers Guild.Topics:Christian authors--United States., Christian literature., Guilds--United States.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130155
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Description:Web site of Opening Doors To Discipleship, a series of four courses in the Presbyterian/Reformed tradition to help teachers and leaders equip themselves to be faithful teachers and leaders.Creator:Opening Doors To Discipleship. (creator)Subject names:Opening Doors To Discipleship.Topics:Christian education--Curricula., Presbyterian Church--Education--United States., Presbyterian Church--Education--Canada., Religious educators--United States., Religious educators--Canada.Geographic subjects:United States., Canada.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130142
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Title: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
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Description:Web site of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC). Since 1950, NCC has served as a leading voice of witness to the living Christ. NCC unifies a diverse covenant community of 38 member communions and over 40 million individuals– 100,000 congregations from Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, Evangelical, historic African-American, and Living Peace traditions– in a common commitment to advocate and represent God's love and promise of unity in our public square. NCC partners with secular and interfaith partners to advance a shared agenda of peace, progress, and positive change.Creator:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (creator)Subject names:National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.Topics:Interdenominational cooperation--United States., Christianity--United States., Councils and synods, Ecumenical.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130129
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Title:Description:Web site of More Light Presbyterians. More Light Presbyterians works for the full participation of LGBTQ people in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and in society.Creator:More Light Presbyterians. (creator)Subject names:More Light Presbyterians.Topics:Church work with gays--United States., Gay rights--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Sexual orientation--Religious aspects--Christianity., Lesbian clergy--United States., Gay clergy--United States., Christian sexual minorities--United States.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130120
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Description:In 1989, the Covenant Fellowship of Presbyterians and Presbyterians United for Biblical Concerns merged to form Presbyterians for Renewal (PFR)--a broad based advocacy and ministry organization. In 2011, a movement began that would come to be known as the Fellowship of Presbyterians--reclaiming a covenanted biblical community within the PC(USA) where unity is derived from a clearly articulated theology, where the common mission is making disciples of Jesus Christ, and where new generations of leaders could be nurtured to speak the gospel into a rapidly-changing world. In 2014, these two organizations blended the best of their ministries together to form The Fellowship Community.Creator:Fellowship of Presbyterians. (creator)Subject names:Fellowship of Presbyterians.Topics:Evangelicalism--Presbyterian Church., Covenant theology.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130088
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Description:Web site of the Presbyterian Older Adult Ministries Network, a network of persons who are engaged in ministry with older adults. These people work in presbyteries and synods, they are leaders in congregations, and some serve in specialized ministries such as chaplains in care facilities and presbytery staff who are involved with older adult ministry committees.Creator:Presbyterian Older Adult Ministries Network. (creator)Subject names:Presbyterian Older Adult Ministries Network.Topics:Church work with older people--United States., Church work with older people--Presbyterian Church., Preaching to older people--United States., Christian education of older people--United States., Professional associations.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130078
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Description:Web site of the National Black Presbyterian Caucus (NBPC). NBPC is committed to Jesus Christ and works to ensure that the witness of Presbyterians of African decent is healthy, growing, dynamic and empowering; that racial justice is integral in the church's self-understanding and lived out in every aspect of ministry within the Presbyterian Church. Transformational church growth and leadership development also remains a high priority for the NBPC.Creator:National Black Presbyterian Caucus. (creator)Subject names:National Black Presbyterian Caucus.Topics:African American Presbyterians--United States., African American Presbyterian churches--United States., African American civil rights workers--United States., Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130077
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Title: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
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Title: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
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Title:Description:Web site of the Presbyterian Outlook, the independent news publication for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).Creator:Presbyterian Outlook. (creator)Subject names:Presbyterian Outlook.Topics:Religious newspapers and periodicals--United States., Electronic newspapers--United States., Presbyterians--United States--Newspapers.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130060
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Title:Description:Web site of That All May Freely Serve (TAMFS), founded in 1992 to advocate for an inclusive and welcoming Church and for the ordination of qualified lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) candidates for ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA). TAMFS works to resist and transform structures and systems of injustice by being present and engaged– pastorally and as advocates– during these times of transition in the Presbyterian Church (USA). TAMFS joins in solidarity in making the connections with those disenfranchised by racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ablebodyism, gender identity oppression, eco-exploitation, militarism, and all other structures of exploitation and oppression through the lens of our social location. It focuses on the liberation from religious prejudice and exclusionary church policies.Creator:That All May Freely Serve (Association) (creator)Subject names:That All May Freely Serve (Association)Topics:Church work with gays--United States., Ordination of gays--Presbyterian Church., Ordination of lesbians--Presbyterian Church., Gay rights--Presbyterian Church.--Religious aspects, Sexual orientation--Christianity.--Religious aspects, Christian sexual minorities--United States., Christian gays--United States., Christian lesbians--United States., Christian transgender people--United States., Bisexuals--United States.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130049
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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
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Description:Web site of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM). PAM provides resources, conferences, publications and a vast network of members who are engaged in worship, music, and the arts worldwide. Choir directors, organists, Christian educators, artists, clergy, and lay people will find PAM to be a valuable resource for creative worship planning. Members of PAM have access to these benefits which improve worship planning for any size church in any location with information addressing new and old issues facing all denominations.Creator:Presbyterian Association of Musicians (U.S.) (creator)Subject names:Presbyterian Association of Musicians (U.S.)Topics:Church musicians., Church music--Societies, etc., Music--Instruction and study., Professional associations.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130019
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Description:The web presence of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators, a national organization dedicated to "connect, enrich, empower, and sustain" all persons engaged in educational ministries.Creator:Association of Presbyterian Church Educators. (creator)Subject names:Association of Presbyterian Church Educators.Topics:Religious education--Societies, etc., Presbyterian Church--Education--United States., Presbyterian Church--Education--Canada., Religious educators--United States., Religious educators--Canada., Professional associations.Geographic subjects:United States., Canada.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130018
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Description:Web site of the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (APCU), an independent, not-for-profit association dedicated to helping each member institution "seek its own way". The APCU advocates the important, ongoing role that higher education plays within the Presbyterian Church (USA); serves as a resource on market trends, church doctrine, and legislative activity to member institutions; assists presidents and chaplains in the development of strategies that fulfill their respective institutional missions; creates/maintains partnerships that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of member institutions; administers a range of programs and services that strengthen and distinguish member institutions.Creator:Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities. (creator)Subject names:Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities.Topics:Presbyterian universities and colleges--United States., College chaplains--United States., Christian education--United States., Professional associations.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130002
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Title:Description:In 1989, the Covenant Fellowship of Presbyterians and Presbyterians United for Biblical Concerns merged to form Presbyterians for Renewal (PFR)--a broad based advocacy and ministry organization. In 2011, a movement began that would come to be known as the Fellowship of Presbyterians--reclaiming a covenanted biblical community within the PC(USA) where unity is derived from a clearly articulated theology, where the common mission is making disciples of Jesus Christ, and where a new generations of leaders could be nurtured to speak the gospel into a rapidly-changing world. In 2014, these two organizations blended the best of their ministries together to form The Fellowship Community.Creator:Presbyterians for Renewal. (creator)Subject names:Presbyterians for Renewal.Topics:Evangelicalism--Presbyterian Church., Covenant theology.Geographic subjects:United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129994
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Description:Web site of the Presbyterian Church Camp and Conference Association (PCCCA). The mission of PCCCA is to equip leaders for vibrant and sustainable ministries. It seeks to provide a common voice and shared vision for Presbyterian camp and conference ministry. Bringing together people who support and represent the 156 Presbyterian camps and conference centers in the United States and Canada, the association offers many educational and connectional events. PCCCA also provides a quarterly enewsletter, a directory of camp and conference centers, representation on national committees, consulting services, an online repository of resources, job listings, special discounts on products/services, and a network of collegial support.Creator:Presbyterian Church Camp and Conference Association. (creator)Subject names:Presbyterian Church Camp and Conference Association.Topics:Church camps--Presbyterian Church., Church camps--United States., Church camps--Canada., Church conference centers--United States., Church conference centers--Canada., Professional associations.Geographic subjects:United States., Canada.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:129964
