Saturday, April 2, 2022

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.

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Today in the Mission Yearbook: April 2, 2022

NEW WORSHIPING COMMUNITIES - As a child, the Rev. Dr. Lindsay Armstrong loved Mister Rogers and his neighborhood of make-believe — especially the puppets King Friday XIII and Henrietta Pussycat.

She even remembers some of Mister Rogers’ life lessons, including the day he said while changing his shoes, “As human beings, our job in life is to help realize how rare and valuable each of us really is, that each of us has something that one else has — or will ever have — something inside that is unique to all time.”

“It sounds idealistic, even naïve or romantic,” she says now.

But as executive director of the New Church Development Commission in the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, Armstrong wonders what it would be like if Mister Rogers’ lessons were taken seriously ...

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