Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook

The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. The stories in the 2012 Mission Yearbook were gathered around the prayer of Paul for the Colossians, that these faithful brothers and sisters would bear fruit and grow in the knowledge of God (1:10).

Today in the Mission Yearbook: August 12, 2012

MINUTE FOR MISSION: HIGHER EDUCATION - Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Ephesians 4:31-5:2)

Early in the semester, a crisis arose among some of the students in our Religion Department. In a class on Friday it started as a heated debate about the role of women in the church. Unaware of this, on Tuesday, the interim director of campus ministry and I led worship in chapel (two women in the church), and that evening it grew hotter still as a male student posted 1 Timothy 2:12 on Facebook: “I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man, she is to keep silent.” By Thursday evening, all manner of bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with malice, was flying around our church-related institution of higher education.

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