Author Archives: Mike Givler

Jeri-Lynne Bouterse looking to the future in Washington Presbytery

Posted April 4, 2025

“God is at work everywhere, it’s just sometimes we overlook it.”

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Labyrinth making its rounds in Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery

Posted March 27, 2025

Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery has used a Synod grant to purchase a custom-made modified medieval seven-circuit 24-foot octagonal canvas labyrinth.

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Calvin Church continues bicycle ministry on South Dakota reservation

Posted March 10, 2025

The 2024 trip was Calvin’s eighth and about 130 bikes were provided.

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Sale of Tiffany windows allows United Church to ‘share them with the world’

Posted March 4, 2025

“What good is their beauty if there’s not a church and a congregation to appreciate them?”

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At New Salem, ‘We lost the building, but we didn’t lose the church’

Posted February 19, 2025

“I know the Lord’s guiding us because everything has just fallen so easily into place.”

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Churches Helping Churches Grant a way for Derry Church to give back

Posted February 21, 2025

“Instead of just filling our coffers, filling our storehouses, can we share with others? And that’s what the Gospel calls us to do.”

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First Church of Lansdowne gives back to Lenape Nation after sale of manse

Posted January 21, 2025

“The fact that everybody was essentially on board from the beginning tells me that indeed the Spirit is moving, and I don’t question it was the right thing to do.”

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Meg Steele, Susan Nesti ready for roles as Synod co-moderators in 2025

Posted January 21, 2025

Meg Steele, a ruling elder from Washington Presbytery, and Susan Nesti, a ruling elder from the Presbytery of Redstone, are serving as the co-moderators for the Synod of the Trinity in 2025.

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Intertwined still going strong in year 2

Posted January 16, 2025

“Intertwined” is a faith community in the Presbytery of Carlisle that is attempting to reach “nones and dones.”

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Longing for Home

Posted December 18, 2024

“Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have their nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

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