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 2013 Mission Yearbook were gathered around the question of Jesus to his disciples, “How many loaves have you?” from Mark 6:38. The book is filled with stories of God’s abundance in the face of overwhelming needs and a scarcity of resources.

Today in the Mission Yearbook: March 3, 2013

Lucy Craft Laney

MINUTE FOR MISSION: CELEBRATE THE GIFTS OF WOMEN - On Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday, we celebrate faithful women in the church and society. Two of these women trailblazers were Lucy Craft Laney and Mary McLeod Bethune. Laney’s father, David Laney, was born a slave in South Carolina and later became an influential African American Presbyterian pastor.

Mary McLeod Bethune, another educator, from South Carolina, attended Trinity Mission School, run by the Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen, and later Scotia Seminary, now Barber-Scotia College. She began teaching in 1896 at Haines Normal Institute. Bethune spent only a year at Laney’s school but was influenced deeply by her and adopted many of her educational philosophies designed to improve the conditions of African Americans by educating primarily women.

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