by Albany Presbytery Office | September 2, 2020 | MissionRMM | Blog, Mission, News
Your presbytery Mission Committee wants to lift up a request from one of our six Mission Partners. Rural and Migrant Ministry (RMM) needs re-usable face masks. Here is a simple, non-financial way to support our partner – and in the process, to learn about their good... Read more
by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | August 24, 2020 | BLMcreation carepeacemaking | Blog, Creation Care, Peacemaking Task Force, Racial Justice
The Peacemaking Task Force of Albany Presbytery, at its August Zoom meeting, decided to focus on two major issues, Creation Care and Black Lives Matter, giving them each sustained attention. The more we discussed these two issues, the more we realized how much they... Read more
by Rev. Kate Kotfila | August 17, 2020 | | Blog
Beautiful Lebanon has been devastated by an economy in free fall and the ravages of Covid. The August 4 explosion of 2750 pounds of aluminum nitrate is yet another example of bureaucratic negligence. Stored for as much as 6 years after being seized from a ship, the... Read more
by Rev. Michael Burkley | August 14, 2020 | | Blog
For more than a decade, I have been doing most of my grocery shopping at my local PriceRite and Aldi’s. They have good products, and are considerably less expensive than other markets, and I’m always looking for a good bargain! One of the other things that I liked... Read more
by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | July 20, 2020 | BLMContemplationcreation careListeningmindfulness | Blog, COVID19, Creation Care, Equality
There are so many words and so much information flying around that it gets overwhelming. Our world is increasingly hyped and we go along with it. A digital world and a life of multi-tasking set us up for this. One result of living in a constant hyper state is that we... Read more
by Rev. Dr. Earl S. Johnson, Jr | July 13, 2020 | changeprayerreconciliationritualScripture | Blog, Peacemaking Task Force, Racial Justice
Several years ago, some of us from First Presbyterian Church in Johnstown, NY visited Johannesburg, South Africa on our way to rebuild a church in Mozambique. In Johannesburg, members of the local presbytery (a biracial group) outlined the four steps that they were... Read more
by Arthur Fullerton | June 29, 2020 | EqualityLGBTQMore LightPCUSA | Blog, Equality
I recently stood for Co-Moderator of the 224th General Assembly of the PCUSA. Westminster Presbyterian Church is part of a larger Christendom and within this country part of the larger Presbyterian Church USA. We are called Presbyterian largely because of how we are... Read more
by Bill Henderson | June 12, 2020 | BLMLovingKindnessRacialEquality | Blog, News, Racial Justice
The last few weeks have seen a huge outpouring of support for the safety of and respect of people of color in light of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In Albany Presbytery, which is mostly white, many of our ministers and church members lamented that the... Read more
