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: September 9, 2012

MINUTE FOR MISSION: CHRISTIAN EDUCATION - Life is full of puzzlers. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Today's lectionary passage from James has us going in circles about whether faith or works come first. One puzzle that stirs our youth is: God-sightings or God's sightings?

Last summer, youth and adults from Latrobe Presbyterian Church spent a week on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where we saw poverty we have never seen in our small town in Pennsylvania. We were eager to live out our faith through hard work, and in turn, we were able to convert a bus into a mobile soup kitchen, provide indoor plumbing at a very remote house, re-roof a church, and dig an outhouse trench for a school. We worked hard.

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