Related Organizations

  • 1001 New Worshiping Communities

    1001 New Worshiping Communities

    1001 New Worshiping Communities is a movement happening in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Across the PC(USA), God is raising up leaders in churches and presbyteries who are creating new worshiping communities. They are taking on new and varied forms of church for the changing culture. The goal is to form new disciples of Jesus, transforming the denomination and impacting the world.

  • Board of Pensions PC (USA)

    Board of Pensions PC (USA)

    The Board of Pensions is the agency legally responsible for administering the pension and benefits programs of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Board of Pensions is governed by an independent Board of Directors nominated by the General Assembly Nominating Committee and elected by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

  • Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company

    Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company

    Brotherhood Mutual insures America’s churches and related ministries. It has for more than 90 years. But there’s more. From Brotherhood’s perspective, insurance is more than a commercial endeavor. It’s a platform to accomplish its mission: to help America’s churches and related ministries build the Kingdom. Brotherhood does that by providing quality property and liability insurance coverage, custom designed to help churches and related ministries do their work safely and effectively.

  • Church Innovations

    Church Innovations

    Church Innovations Institute does research and consulting that innovates a church’s capacities to be renewed in God’s mission. It has helped more than 1,800 congregations, 75 national and mid-governing bodies and 24 denominations on four continents and in all 50 United States. It is a non-profit organization rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It helps churches focus on God’s mission in the world and it is committed to listening for God’s leading for every congregation.

  • PA Council of Churches

    PA Council of Churches

    The Pennsylvania Council of Churches is 42 church bodies and agencies representing 20 Anabaptist, Anglican, Orthodox, Pentecostal and Protestant communions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania working together for Christian unity for the sake of the world.

  • Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

    Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

    Pittsburgh Theological Seminary is a graduate theological school of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), offering Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Arts in Theology and Ministry (M.A.T.M.), Master of Arts in Theological Studies (M.A.T.S.), Master of Theology (Th.M.) and Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) programs as well as Spiritual and Christian Leadership certificates.

    Rooted in the Reformed tradition, the Seminary is committed to the formation of women and men for theologically reflective ministry and to scholarship in service to the global Church of Jesus Christ. Its student body is comprised of Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Orthodox and more than 20 other traditions.

  • Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

    Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

    Presbyterian Disaster Assistance enables congregations and mission partners of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to witness to the healing love of Christ through caring for communities adversely affected by crisis and catastrophic event. Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is the emergency and refugee program of the PCUSA. The core budget, including staff and administrative costs, is funded through the One Great Hour of Sharing, and its program work is additionally funded through designated gifts.

  • Presbyterian Media Mission

    Presbyterian Media Mission

    In a world of confusing and competing messages, the Presbyterian Media Mission communicates a creative and compelling witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ through media.

  • Presbyterian Men

    Presbyterian Men

    The Presbyterian Men’s Mission Network is a lay organization affiliated with the National Council of Presbyterian Men whose purpose is to direct vocational and spiritual gifts of the men of the church to projects of Ministry, Mission and Community best suited for those gifts. The General Assembly Mission Council, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the National Council of Presbyterian Men have formed a Covenant of Agreement.

    Semi-annual council meetings are held each year – spring and fall – where representatives from the presbyteries report on mission network activities, receive training and participate in project appropriate workshops. Regional conferences are held on an annual basis.

    Current mission networks are Prison Ministries (Kiski), Prayer Network (Beaver-Butler), Volunteers in Mission (Pittsburgh), Community Development (Carlisle), Male Mentoring (Philadelphia) and Garden Project (Northumberland). Annual retreats for men are held in West Virginia Presbytery, and the men of Lake Erie Presbytery participate in the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Program.

    Lay organizations represent a variety of disciplines and services some of which may be provided on a pro bono basis; however, most will be provided on a fee basis, terms and conditions to be established by the parties involved. Marketing/service areas will vary from national to state and/or regional/local.

  • Presbyterian Women

    Presbyterian Women

    The Presbyterian Women in the Synod of the Trinity provides fellowship throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia and southeastern Ohio. It is united by its love of Jesus Christ the Savior, and it joins together regionally to support mission projects, work for justice and peace and nurture faith through prayer and Bible study.

  • The Center for Parish Development

    The Center for Parish Development

    The Center for Parish Development is an ecumenical not-for-profit organization, a mission agency with a deep commitment to the practical workings out of a missional ecclesiology for the life of the church today. The Center forms dynamic learning partnerships with those who bring gifts and concerns for the transformation of the church into a missional way.

    The mission of the Center is to discover how the church in general and the local church in particular can learn to discern and participate in God’s mission more faithfully and effectively, and to provide counsel and resources to facilitate that transformational process.

  • West Virginia Council of Churches

    West Virginia Council of Churches

    The vision of the West Virginia Council of Churches is to renew, to strengthen and to expand its covenant together. The mission of WVCC is to make more visible the unity of Christ’s church, provides a Christian witness on public issues, and engages in cooperative mission and service for all West Virginians.

  • WV Ministry of Advocacy & Workcamps, Inc.

    WV Ministry of Advocacy & Workcamps, Inc.

    The West Virginia Ministry of Advocacy and Workcamps (WVMAW) is a Christian ministry supported in part by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) that offers the opportunity for discipleship by partnering with those in need whose lives have been devastated by natural disasters or by the disaster of poverty in areas of West Virginia. WVMAW believes that doing justice is bridging the gap between the rich and the poor, between those who may have skills or abilities and those who need assistance, between those who are victims of disaster and those who are able to reach out.

  • World Council of Churches

    World Council of Churches

    The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches that confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior according to the scriptures, and therefore seek to fulfil together their common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

    It is a community of churches on the way to visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship, expressed in worship and in common life in Christ. It seeks to advance towards this unity, as Jesus prayed for his followers, “so that the world may believe.” (John 17:21)

  • World Mission Initiative

    World Mission Initiative

    World Mission Initiative (WMI) is a fellowship of Presbyterians dedicated to developing mission vision, nurturing missionary vocations and cultivating missional congregations and exists to help Christians understand how God is at work in the world and how they can share in that work.

    WMI has a seminary focus in order to prepare seminary students to become pastors with a larger Christian worldview and a passion for mission. Its congregational focus seeks to support, educate and encourage congregations so that they can grow in their knowledge and commitment to mission.