Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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.

Today in the Mission Yearbook: September 26, 2018

FORMER MISSION CO-WORKER ELIZABETH "LIBBY" McALILY - The Rev. Elizabeth (Libby) Dunlap McAliley of Austell, Georgia, passed away July 25. Born May 15, 1928, in York, South Carolina, to Robert Floyd and Edna Henry Dunlap, she married the Rev. William Samuel McAliley Sr. on Aug. 11, 1979.

A graduate of Agnes Scott College in 1950, she served for 23 years as a Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS) missionary in the Belgian Congo. Her mission assignments included training young men and a few young women to become teachers in the first and second grades and teaching at the Theological School in the Congo.

She completed a master of Christian education degree in 1959 and received a master of divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in 1973. That same year, McAliley became the first woman in South Carolina to be ordained as a minister of the PCUS ...

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