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: September 10, 2013
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION WEEK: PRESBYTERY OF HUDSON RIVER, NEW YORK - Even as the Poughkeepsie Church closed its doors, its members received a vision for the future and the possibilities toward which God calls the church. As members sold their building and merged with another congregation, they set aside a portion of the proceeds to be used as seed money for new, creative, transformational ministries in the Presbytery of Hudson River. One of the ministries funded by their vision is a Cross-Cultural Network coordinator, a part-time presbytery staff position imagined by four teaching elders serving congregations in increasingly diverse communities. In addition to the Poughkeepsie money, the team also received a General Assembly Mission Program Grant, which, combined with financial support from a network of congregations in the presbytery, will fund the three-fourths-time coordinator position through the end of 2014. At a March 2012 presbytery meeting, Sarah Henkel was called to serve as the Cross-Cultural Network coordinator and ordained as a teaching elder.
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