Minute for Mission: Children’s Sabbath; Educate a Child, Transform the World

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A and D bible share (Photo provided by Alonzo Johnson)

At last year's Presbyterian Youth Triennium, one of my young participants — who was part of the Presbyterian Youth Triennium’s planning team — read Scripture in worship in front of a large audience of enthusiastic young people. Having known this incredible individual for over 20 years, I felt immense pride as I witnessed this. He had been one of the remarkable young people in the urban church I served many years ago. Since my departure from that church, I hadn’t seen him in what seemed to be years, and in that time, he had finished high school and was finishing college, so as one can imagine, I was excited to see him blossom into the amazing leader he is today. When he read Scripture at the lectern during Youth Triennium, my heart was both full and proud. After the service, he approached me and said, “Rev, I have something to show you.” He handed me a Bible and told me to open it. When I did, it contained my writing and words of encouragement to him from over 15 years ago on the first page. This was the Bible that our church had given him at his confirmation. As I held back tears reading my old words to him, he said, “I carry it with me.” This moved me deeply and made me reflect on the important work the church does to care for, nurture and shape its young people. 

Our young people thrive when churches provide consistent care and support, including encouragement in their education. When I think of this remarkable young person now serving the church, I am reminded that our congregations can offer every young person hope, nurture and sustenance. In these ways, we carry them with us.

The Educate a Child, Transform the World covenant describes this supportive work of the church as the practice of Christian Disciplines. These disciplines prepare, propel, ground and sustain children for life, leadership and justice. Through confirmation and other spiritual practices — including worship, prayer and Bible study — the church communicates God’s grace and strengthens both the community and its young people in faithful witness. Practicing Christian Disciplines also means celebrating, honoring and supporting those who educate our children. Our baptismal vows unite us with the universal Church, a covenant community called to pursue justice for every child.

The following links offer ways to support young people and explore issues related to public education:

Educate a Child website: https://pcusa.org/about-pcusa/agencies-entities/interim-unified-agency/ministry-areas/self-development-people/educate-child-transform-world

PC(USA) Poverty Page: https://pcusa.org/how-we-serve/justice-peace/poverty

Rev. Dr. Alonzo T. Johnson, Convener of the Education Roundtable

Let us join in prayer for:

Zenia Baker, Administrative I, Operations, Presbyterian Foundation
Adriana Ballard, AVP, Director of Investment Management, Investments, Presbyterian Foundation

Let us pray:

Because we affirm that all children are a gift of God, created by God and
created good; all children are a gift to the whole of the human community;
all children have a real faith, and gifts for ministry; all children have the
right to be children; and all children are not just tomorrow, they are today.
Therefore, we covenant to act, with God’s grace, to help all children to learn,
to succeed and to fulfill their God-given potential. Amen.

This prayer was adapted from “A Protestant Worship Service,” in Wonderfully Made: Preparing Children to Learn and Succeed. National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths, Copyright 1999, Children’s Defense Fund, and A Vision for Children and the Church. It can be found in our PC(USA) Policy on education: pcusa.org/resource/loving-our-neighbors-equity-and-quality-public-education-k-12

Mission Yearbook: Before ‘Mister Rogers’ was ‘The Children’s Corner’ with Josie Carey

"The Quiet Success of Fred Rogers," Robert Bianco,
The Pittsburgh Press Sunday Magazine, 1989; from
the archives of the Presbyterian Historical Society.

When Fred Rogers met Josie Carey at the brand-new Pittsburgh public television station WQED, he likely had no idea of the extent to which their collaboration would shape his career. 

At the vanguard of children’s educational television, the two developed content that would shape many elements of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” from singing puppets to moral messages of kindness. 

Josephine V. Franz was born in Pittsburgh on Aug. 20, 1930. Raised in Butler, Pennsylvania, by her mother and grandmother, Josie’s was a childhood filled with joy. She took singing, dancing, and piano lessons and loved to “play show” for whoever would watch. 

Despite her idyllic upbringing in Butler, Josie dreamed of moving to Pittsburgh. So, she learned to type and got a job with a Pittsburgh advertising agency in her early 20s. 

Josie spent evenings acting at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. It was here in 1953 that she was “discovered” by WQED manager Dorothy Daniel.

When WQED hit the air in April 1954, it did so as the first fully community-funded public television station in the country. It was here that Josie would connect with Fred Rogers, and once the two learned that they both had an interest in children’s television, they decided to work together. “We learned right on television how to do television,” Josie said of the period.

Running from 1954 to 1961, Josie and Fred’s program “The Children’s Corner” was one of the first programs to air on the station. Fred and Josie wrote and acted the entire show, which ran for an hour each weekday, and the two had almost unlimited creative freedom. Aimed at children ages 8–12, the show was a pioneer that set the standard for future children’s educational television.

Episodes of “The Children’s Corner” consisted of songs, gags, guests and, especially, Fred’s puppets. Much of the show saw Josie chatting the puppets, many of whom would go on to appear in “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood." These dynamic conversations were entirely improvised. “Josie would talk to Daniel as if he was the only person in the room,” Fred said of her interactions with Daniel Tiger. “It was magical how they would converse.”

Josie and Fred used the show to interact with children across the region. Kids would write in to share their birthdays and would tune in to hear the puppet King Friday XIII sing “Happy Birthday” on air. Children could also be part of a club in which they “earned stripes.”

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One day, they invited all the kids who had earned four stripes to Daniel Tiger’s birthday. They expected to see a handful of kids, but instead, children lined up around the block. Josie led the kids in a song in French that they had learned to earn a stripe and every one of them sang it perfectly. Josie declared it one of the most exciting moments in her career.

“The Children’s Corner” was so successful that soon NBC called. Josie and Fred started traveling to New York for Saturday-morning episodes. In the first several weeks, the network received 138,000 letters about the show, breaking a record. 

It was during his time on “The Children’s Corner” that Fred enrolled at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and began studying to become a Presbyterian minister. The show itself was not explicitly religious. “We didn’t try to tell the children what religion to follow or that they should go to church or anything like that,” Josie said of the messaging. Rather, Christianity was primarily expressed through song. Josie performed “Good Night, God” and “Good Morning, God” every week. Both Josie and Fred heard from families that their children sang the former every night before bed. Josie stated, “I always felt that God really did have a hand in what was happening to us.”

Though lesser known than “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood," “The Children’s Corner” carried immense meaning for its fans. Josie would later receive letters from people telling her she shaped their careers. Musicians, teachers and even a professor of French were inspired by the whimsy of “The Children’s Corner” and its surprisingly robust educational content. Of her legacy, Josie stated, “I’d like to be remembered as someone who brought a little light into the world.” 

Olivia Cacchione, Presbyterian Historical Society (Click here to read original PNS Story)

Let us join in prayer for:

Charles Baker, Production Clerk, Presbyterian Distribution Service, Administrative Services Group
Kristine Baker, Associate for Risk Management, Administrative Services Group

Let us pray:

God of all Creation, we thank you for all the ways you shelter and encourage us during the storms of life. As we seek to restore what has been broken in our world, restore us in faith and purpose. Help us to be your hands and feet and to witness to the love you give us through your Son and our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Minute for Mission: World Food Day

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Guillermo and Julio Lanuza show off their catch of the day. (Courtesy of Asofenix)

World Food Day is observed every year on Oct. 16. This year’s theme, “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow,” asks us to look at how forward-thinking solutions can work alongside traditional knowledge to feed people and protect the planet. On Zapatera Island in Nicaragua, a group of families is showing that innovation doesn’t always require complex technology. Sometimes, it means finding new ways to harness the sun, the sea, and the resources already around them to build a more resilient future.

Zapatera Island, located in the municipality of Granada, faces unique challenges. Reachable only by small wooden boats built by residents, the island suffers from relative isolation. This geographic barrier limits access to government support and broader markets, leaving many families in poverty, suffering from poor nutrition. Yet, the island possesses a wealth of resources: fertile soil, freshwater, forests, abundant fish and plenty of sunlight. 

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A man installs solar panels on Zapatera Island.(Courtesy of Asofenix)

The Asociación Fénix (Asofenix), a Nicaraguan nongovernmental organization, specializing in renewable energy and sustainable agriculture, has worked for over two decades to improve living conditions in rural areas. Their track record includes installing solar-powered water systems, small hydroelectric plants and more than 500 clean wood-burning stoves across 15 communities. As a partner of the Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP), Asofenix brings both technical expertise and a deep commitment to community-led development.

Their current initiative, funded by PHP, focuses on capacity building for 28 families, aiming to establish small, community-based businesses powered by solar energy. The project rests on three pillars. First, it promotes sustainable aquaculture and value-added processing of fish, moving beyond subsistence fishing. Second, it revives Indigenous agricultural techniques, helping families cultivate crops like corn and beans for both consumption and sale. Third, it introduces a solar-powered retail system, allowing the community to preserve and sell natural products efficiently. Throughout this process, the families participate in planning, implementation and management through elected committees.

The impact extends to approximately 150 people across four communities. By producing manuals on Indigenous agriculture and compiling a community cookbook, the project ensures that community knowledge will remain within the island. Looking ahead, Asofenix plans to expand the program to more families and develop community-based tourism to secure long-term funding. 

As World Food Day reminds us, true food security is rooted in sovereignty. For the families of Zapatera Island, harnessing the potential of their own land, waters, and the sun is about more than nourishing themselves today, it is about building a future where they can sustain their families and feed their communities for generations to come.

Eileen Schuhmann, Associate for Global Engagement and Resources, Presbyterian Hunger Program

Let us join in prayer for:

Nora Baez, Lead Reservation Specialist, Stony Point Center, Presbyterian Life & Witness
Amber Baker, Donor Advised Fund Specialist, Operations, Presbyterian Foundation  

Let us pray:

May God bless the soil and waters of Zapatera Island, bringing abundant crops, plentiful fish and nourishment for every family. May the sun power their endeavors, giving light and energy to their work and hope for the future. Guide their hands with wisdom and perseverance, and may their harvests bring nourishment, prosperity and a brighter tomorrow. Amen.

Mission Yearbook: New hymn focuses on integrity and loving neighbors

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The Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is pictured near Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in central New York state. (Photo courtesy of Carolyn Winfrey Gillette)

“Give Us Integrity, God, In the Ways We Are Living” is a new hymn by the Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette that speaks to the need for churches to lift up moral and ethical values including loving our neighbors, welcoming strangers and opposing warfare that targets the innocent and the vulnerable.

“Sometimes as a pastor, I hear people argue, ‘That’s political! We shouldn’t be talking about anything that’s happening in the nation or world in church,’” she said. But during the Office of Public Witness’ recent webinar on “Faithful Resistance to ICE,” a panelist “talked about how Christians need to speak out and take action if we want to have any integrity as followers of Jesus,” she said. “The word ‘integrity’ is a good one for us to consider as we sing and pray.”

She noted that Jesus once asked, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I tell you?” Those who follow Jesus “need to love our neighbors, feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, work as peacemakers, show compassion to all (not just to people like us) and seek justice for the oppressed,” she said. “If we close our eyes and our hearts to people in need, if we ignore the cries of our neighbors (including those we are being told to hate and be afraid of), how are we living with integrity as followers of Jesus’ Way?”

Her most recent hymn “is a prayer that we will live our faith through visible acts of compassion, neighborliness, kindness, justice and advocacy.”

Scriptural references for the hymn include Proverbs 14:32; Matthew 21:28–32; Matthew 25:31–46; Luke 6:37–38; John 15:18; Mark 10:13–16; Matthew 5:9; Luke 1:52–53; Luke 12:13–21; Luke 10:25–37; and 1 John 4:16–21.

Give Us Integrity, God, In the Ways We Are Living

LOBE DEN HERREN  (“Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty”)

Give us integrity, God, in the ways we are living.

Christ taught us well — to be welcoming, kind and forgiving!

Yet all around, powers of hatred abound.

May we seek Christ and obey him.

Jesus reached out with a blessing and welcomed the children.

Yet all around us are forces of death that would kill them.

When there is war, we see Christ stand with the poor;

may your church also stand with them.

Jesus condemned and admonished the proud and the greedy.

He said to open our hearts to the cries of the needy.

May we who say we follow Jesus today

kneel with him, serving the hungry.

Sometimes we hear, “That's political!” That’s not our problem.

Yet if we live with integrity, we'll pay attention.

May people find Christians are moral and kind

and that, with Jesus, we love them.

Mike Ferguson, Editor, Presbyterian News Service (Click here to read original PNS Story)

Let us join in prayer for:

Joty Allison, 1001 NWC Apprentice, 1001 New Worshiping Communities, Presbyterian Life & Witness
Katherine Babicz, AVP Financial & Investment Planning Professional, Trust Services, Presbyterian Foundation

Let us pray:

Almighty God, guide our efforts to provide a ministry to all who seek your love and grace. Help us to appreciate your children, to encourage their gifts, and to be facilitators and supporters as we offer them a welcoming place to gather in the light of your love and wisdom. Amen.

Minute for Mission: Mothers and daughters find connection at CSW

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Punky Dahl, left, and daughter Haley attended events during the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. (Photo by Rich Copley)

Participating in this year’s Commission on the Status of Women was a family affair for some of the Presbyterians who gathered in New York City in March.

The Presbyterian News Service caught up with a few mother-daughter pairs who took part in the 70th session of CSW, an international gathering aimed at promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. 

Interviewed at Church of the Covenant were Laura Browne and her daughter, Julianne; Punky Dahl and her daughter, Haley; and Laura Zhang-Choi, whose daughter, Ella Choi, commented later.

The duos were among nearly 70 participants recruited by Presbyterian Women and the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations to take part in timely discussions and educational sessions, worship services and advocacy opportunities.

“I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of the CSW,” said Ella Choi of Stewartsville Presbyterian Church in New Jersey. “It was an extremely eye-opening experience, and I learned a lot about how faith and female empowerment are integral to one another.”

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Before the event, the Brownes of Orangewood Presbyterian Church applied but didn’t expect to get accepted.

“I thought, ‘Are you kidding me?’” said daughter Julianne Browne of Phoenix. “A place where I can actually go and talk to people who are doing good in the world, learn from them, bring stuff back? That sounded like everything I had been wanting for so long.”

When the Brownes learned they had been accepted, “we were screaming” with joy, Laura Browne said. 

This year’s theme, ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, prompted sessions on topics ranging from gender-based violence to survival in war-torn regions.

Laura Browne came to learn about the gender wage gap and women in leadership. It’s “very depressing that it's 2026 and there's still a huge gender wage gap in many countries.”

Julianne Browne focused more on sexual violence against women. “It's close to my heart because pretty much every woman I have met in my life, especially my friends — every single woman — has had some kind of violent experience at the hands of a man, including myself.”

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Zhang-Choi wanted her daughter to witness discussions about challenges that don’t “just exist in Stewartsville or in New Jersey, but worldwide, women face a lot of the same challenges.” She also wanted Choi “to see the beauty of God's imagination for all humankind,” the diversity, and the importance of making space for everyone to belong.

Choi, a junior at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City, said participating in CSW with her mother “made it even more meaningful and impactful. Not only did it deepen our relationship through faith, but it also connected us through a shared understanding of how gender equality has progressed across generations. It reminded me of the work women, including my mom, have done for gender equality, and it motivated me to advocate for future generations of women by uplifting female voices in faith spaces.”

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Punky Dahl, who’s based in Oklahoma City but attends Southminster Presbyterian Church in Tulsa, said CSW provides an opportunity to learn about issues affecting women around the world and bring that knowledge home.

Having her daughter, Haley, with her provided additional support. “Some of the sessions are very heavy, and when you can sit down and you can discuss it with someone you love, and get two different opinions, but come together as one, it makes such a huge difference,” Punky Dahl said.

Haley Dahl attended to get a feel for CSW and participated in events that did not require a U.N. badge. She was particularly interested in a panel on the intersection of homelessness and gender-related issues and began thinking about how to apply what she learned locally.

For Julianne Browne, the experience also offered a new sense of belonging. Before CSW, she said, “I didn’t feel like I belonged or like people would accept me because I am queer and I’m a woman.”

After participating in a regional online orientation, however, “it felt like the first time in a very long time that I had gotten like a sign.”

Upon arriving in New York, she said she felt welcomed by delegates and others she met. “I have felt seen.”

Darla Carter, Communications Strategist, Presbyterian Life & Witness (Click here to read original PNS Story)

Let us join in prayer for:

Roberta Romano, 1001 NWC Apprentice, 1001 New Worshiping Communities, Presbyterian Life & Witness
Rebecca Newgren, 1001 NWC Apprentice, 1001 New Worshiping Communities, Presbyterian Life & Witness

Let us pray:

O Holy Spirit, open each new generation to your renewing wind. Blow afresh in our lives, that we all might be empowered to do your will in service and love. Amen.

Mission Yearbook: Sermon covers the messy work of being human

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Kate Trigger Duffert, shown at a Presbytery of Milwaukee meeting at Grace Presbyterian Church in Beaver Dam, Wis. (Photo by Rich Copley)

Kate Trigger Duffert, who leads General Assembly Planning, recently stepped away from those duties to preach during a Chapel Service that included mid council leaders from across the country receiving their orientation.

Calling her sermon “The Messy Bits,” Duffert preached on Ezekiel 37:1–14, which lays out the prophet’s vision of a valley of dry bones. We can place ourselves in Ezekiel’s shoes, she said.

“We hear the story and imagine how we might be called to be a prophetic witness to those around us,” she said. But “if you’re anything like me, you may be feeling a bit more like you are a part of the multitude of dry bones in the valley.”

We’re living in a time where the world seems intent on wearing us down to the bone, she said. “We carry in our bones the stories of ancestors who were harmed and who harmed. We carry DNA altered by generation after generation surviving times of sickness, hunger, upheaval and violence.”

“We are bone tired,” she said, “and so today I can’t help but find myself in our story laying out in the sun-bleached bones.”

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Photo by Tim Wildsmith via Unsplash

And yet, we’re people of faith and hope. “We have the benefit of knowing what’s on the other side of Ezekiel’s vision and the stories of Bible,” she said. We know God takes “what feels tired and useless” and shapes “life-giving witnesses to the world.”

But unlike the Creation accounts in Genesis, where God “sculpts and forms,” the image given to Ezekiel “is not one where nothing becomes something.” Instead, God “layers the deeply embodied, physical components of a person into bones before the spirit is breathed in.”

This new creation doesn’t remain bone, “jingling about like a Halloween decoration clanking bone on bone,” she said. Instead, Ezekiel’s vision is centered on a step we hope God might have skipped: It’s “the messy bits, the deeply human parts of encountering the sinews, the muscles, the tendons, the organs and blood and fluids that build upon our bones to make us alive.”

That got Duffert to thinking about the 1999 film “The Mummy,” whose skeleton is enfleshed as the film goes on. “The stuff of humanity builds upon him like scaffolding until he is finally recognizable as his former, living self,” she said. “The scenes are not pleasant. … They are messy, goopy and meant to make the viewer squeamish.”

As one “feeling like dry bones, I have to say that the idea of being alive and made new is incredibly appealing,” Duffert said. While the idea of layering on sinews and flesh “does not seem like an enjoyable way to get there, God-who-can-do-all-things makes it clear that it is a necessary part of the process. God shows us that if we are to be alive, we must engage with the muck and mire of being human.”

There are times in the church “when we are so fixated on becoming what God wants us to be that we forget our embodied humanity,” Duffert said. “We seek to disinfect our stories rather than admitting the painful truths at play. We will ourselves into the cleanliness of sun-bleached bones, forgetting that means we are no better than dead.”

But we’re called “to do the human work of being people in community, with all its mess,” she said. “When we fail to engage with the fullness of our globs of humanity, we choose to stay dry, dead bones.”

The Hebrew word “ruach” means both breath and spirit, “the same breath that is that root of not only respiration but inspiration,” sharing oxygen and carbon dioxide in a cycle back and forth with all of Creation. “It’s when we have taken on the messy work of humanness that we open ourselves up to God’s profound inspiration and the community that is Creation,” Duffert said.

Mike Ferguson, Editor, Presbyterian News Service (Click here to read original PNS Story)

Let us join in prayer for:

Thomas Soadwa, 1001 NWC Apprentice, 1001 New Worshiping Communities, Presbyterian Life & Witness
Joaquin Lopez, 1001 NWC Apprentice, 1001 New Worshiping Communities, Presbyterian Life & Witness

Let us pray:

Lord, we thank you for the privilege of being able to support your mission here and around the world. Give us the wisdom daily to do your work. Amen.

Minute for Mission: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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The Rev. Irv Porter, left, leads participants at the Presbyterians for Earth Care Conference in the Blanket Exercise at the Stony Point Center in Stony Point, N.Y.

Traditionally, on the second Monday of October, the United States celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492.

However, many communities across the nation celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day rather than Columbus Day. Indigenous Peoples’ Day is part of a growing movement to end the celebration of the Italian explorer and rather honor and recognize Indigenous people, the original occupants of the Americas.

Many scholars believe it was Viking Leif Erikson who first came to what would be become known as the New World from overseas. They believe Columbus wasn't the first European to discover what we know as the Americas and that he first landed on the island of Guanahani in the Bahamas. And, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Columbus never set foot in North America but in present-day Venezuela on his fourth journey.

While Columbus didn't technically discover America, he was instrumental in the colonization of North America and its lasting effects on this nation.

In an effort to help Presbyterians realize the atrocities enacted upon Indigenous people, the Native American Intercultural Congregational Support ministry has conducted the Blanket Exercise so that individuals can better visualize the impact of Columbus and the Church’s actions against Indigenous people.

The exercise explores the tenets of the Doctrine of Discovery, the 1493 papal edict promoting the appropriation of land and the subjection of inhabitants of that land during the era of European exploration.

Part physical experience and part history lesson, the Blanket Exercise raises awareness of the systemic and systematic process Europeans, the U.S. government and the Church used to steal land, separate families, forcibly take children from parents to boarding schools and murder hundreds of thousands of Native Americans.

During the exercise, individuals are invited to stand on the blanket of their choosing among about 20 or so covering the floor. Four individuals read from a script that outlines the cruel effects the Doctrine of Discovery had on Native Americans. An assistant periodically rolls up corners and edges of the blankets until there is scant room for participants to stand.

As the blanket exercise plays out, crowd members — playing the part of the up to 30 million Native Americans present in what Europeans called the New World when Christopher Columbus landed on Caribbean islands more than five centuries ago — take a seat as disease, warfare, broken treaties, forced migration and mandatory boarding schools took their toll. In the end, very few people remain standing on what’s left of the blankets.

In one presentation of the blanket exercise, Irv Porter, associate for Native American Intercultural Congregational Support, told participants, “If you’ve never heard this before, you’re not alone. This is the kind of history nobody cares about.” The mission, he said, is to “wake us up that this happened. We as a denomination are trying to blunt this racism.”

Although the exact number of communities that observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day,  on the second Monday in October is unknown, at least 10 states, many college campuses and more than 100 cities have replaced Columbus Day with some version of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

For many Native Americans, Columbus Day is viewed as hurtful and misleading. It’s reminiscent of centuries of violent history and colonial oppression at the hands of European explorers and the Church. For many, the hurt and ramifications of those actions and wounds still run deep today.

However, as Porter said during a blanket exercise, quoting Rio Ramirez, a Tohono O’odham educator in Tucson, Arizona: “No one here today made these things happen. But we are the ones who are living now, and we need to understand that we are all in this together.”

Gail Strange, former Communications Strategist, Presbyterian Life & Witness (Click here to read original PNS Story)

Let us join in prayer for:

Amisi Ngongo, 1001 NWC Apprentice, 1001 New Worshiping Communities, Presbyterian Life & Witness
Eka Tawe, 1001 NWC Apprentice, 1001 New Worshiping Communities, Presbyterian Life & Witness

Let us pray:

Lord Jesus, thank you for inviting all of us to participate in your mission. Guide our congregations as we disciple, giving them opportunities to see your work in and through them in the world. Amen.