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Rev. Robert Jeambey
December 1, 1931 – October 27, 2023
Robert Jeambey passed away at age 91 on October 27, 2023. Bob graduated from Lincoln Northeast, Nebraska Wesleyan, and San Francisco Theological Seminary. He was ordained into the Presbyterian Church in 1965. Prior to ordination, Bob was a newsman at several area radio and television stations, as well as KNBC in San Francisco. In 1970, he began serving as the executive of Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska and the Lincoln Fellowship of Churches. In addition, he served one term on the Lincoln City Council from 1975 - 1979. From 1981 until his retirement, he served as Executive for Communication for the Presbyterian Church at the Synod office in the Twin Cities.
After retirement, Bob returned to Lincoln, where he taught Sunday School classes at First Presbyterian Church, and became active in teaching for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute through UNL.
Bob is survived by daughters: Michele Langer (Kirk) and Suzanne Brage (Mark); as well as three grandchildren: Josh Brage, Sean Brage, and Maya Langer; and five great-grandchildren.
Published by Lincoln Journal Star on Nov. 5, 2023
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Cambria got the blues
On the first Sunday in Lent the congregation at Cambria PC wore blue as a testament to one of the ways One Great Hour of Sharing makes a difference with the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance program. PDA provides emergency and refugee support for communities adversely affected by crisis and catastrophic events.
One Great Hour of Sharing is the single, largest way that Presbyterians come together every year to work for a better world. 2024 is the 75th anniversary of this offering. OGHS resources.
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Millions in medical debt erased
John Knox Presbytery raised over $30,000 and sent it to RIP Medical Debt. Just found out the result…$3,906,533.98 in medical debt wiped out for 2,167 families in North Carolina, Indiana, Texas and Idaho!
Hmmm…how to explain what almost $4 million looks like? It’s like taping $20 bills end to end for about 18 miles…from Postville to Waukon…or from Reedsburg to Wisconsin Dells. What an amazing ministry!
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New life for an old building
The building that housed East End Presbyterian in Ottumwa, Iowa, for most of the congregations' life has a new ministry as a shelter for homeless women and children. Read more.
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PC(USA) congregation in Minneapolis co-creates a healing space with sex-trafficked neighbors
As womanist theologians, the pastors of Liberty Community Church in Minneapolis are seeking the healing of their Northside neighborhood through co-creating spaces of rest and resistance with individuals victimized by the sex trafficking trade and within a community suffering from the effects of systemic poverty and structural racism.
Northside Healing Space is just one of many initiatives that the Matthew 25 congregation has supported over the past 25 years in its efforts to address the multiple layers of oppression experienced by its neighbors through cycles of systemic poverty and the historic realities of structural racism. Read more.
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Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis offers up Michele Norris to share six words on race
LOUISVILLE — For her talk last week at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, author and journalist Michele Norris gathered prominent Minnesotans — including the state’s lieutenant governor — to take turns sharing various people’s six words on race. Read the full article by Mike Ferguson.
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PC(USA) partnership gives away more than 4,800 copies of family-friendly book of psalms
‘Psalms of Wonder’ giveaway was ‘an immense joy’
by Beth Waltemath | Presbyterian News Service
Thanks to a partnership between the Presbyterian Mission Agency and the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 414 churches and communities of faith recently received free copies of the illustrated book “Psalms of Wonder,” by Carey Wallace.
Published in the fall of 2023, the book features accessible and inspiring translations and illustrations of a selection of the psalms by the author and by the book’s illustrator, Khoa Le. A grant overseen by the PMA’s Office of Christian Formation gifted bundles of 10 books in either English or Spanish to congregations so they could share them with families for faith formation in the home. Another 70 books were handed out as door prizes last month at the annual gathering of the Association of Partners in Christian Education.
Read more.
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The Rev. Megan Berry and Carrie Sanders of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Madison, Wisconsin, are pictured. Copies of “Psalms of Wonder” were given away at an Advent event, breakfast with Santa and Mrs. Claus, Christmas Eve services and special events around the United States and Puerto Rico. (Photo by the Rev. Charlie Berthoud.) | |
The PC(USA)’s Special Offerings will be pared from four to three under a proposal approved by the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board
LOUISVILLE — On the first day of two days of meetings that began Tuesday, the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board approved and sent to the 226th General Assembly recommendations for changes to the PC(USA)’s Special Offerings.
The General Assembly will meet online for committee work and in person for plenary sessions in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 25-July 4.
Members of the Special Offerings Review Task Force joined Special Offerings staff to discuss the SORTF report, which is here under the “Meeting Papers” tab.
Read the full article.
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The co-chairs of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board, the Rev. Shannan Vance-Ocampo and the Rev. Michelle Hwang, presided at table during closing worship during the Matthew 25 Summit held at New Life Presbyterian Church in South Fulton, Georgia. (Photo by Rich Copley) | |
Stories of hope and empowerment highlighted in 2024 SDOP Sunday Resource & Yearbook
Let the guide ‘inspire you to take decisive action against poverty,’ SDOP coordinator says
by Darla Carter | Presbyterian News Service
LOUISVILLE — The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People has released its annual SDOP Sunday Resource & Yearbook and it’s available for free online, with a list of 13 ways to engage in poverty eradication.
The downloadable publication — “Celebrate SDOP Sunday Resource & Yearbook: People Investing in People March 10, 2024 and Beyond!” — also includes stories, statistics, a sermon and hymns for congregations and individuals who desire to lift up or learn more about the work of the justice-rooted ministry and its partners. (A companion survey can be found here.)
"I consider our denomination’s SDOP one of our unsung or under-sung heroes,” the Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace, Co-Moderator of the 225th General Assembly
Read more.
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Presbyterian Women begins its third annual Justice & Peace Book Discussion Group
Online gatherings are scheduled the second Monday of every other month
by Kathleen Keefer for Presbyterian Women | Special to Presbyterian News Service
Presbyterian Women Inc. has begun the third annual Justice & Peace Book Discussion Group.
The group meets via Zoom on the second Monday of every other month at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Books are chosen by the national J & P Committee each year. They reflect the issues facing each of us in our country and the world.
The Justice & Peace Book Discussion Group is open to anyone — she, her, he, him, they, them — all! To see the books the group will discuss or to register, go here.
Read the full article.
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Presbyterian Women are Bold
PW are uniquely BOLD around the world and especially in the Synod of Lakes and Prairies. Read the spring issue of The Sower newsletter to see that PW are the "hands and feet of Christ."
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2024 Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women
Learn more at: Gathering
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Presbyterian Women
in the Synod of Lakes and Prairies builds community and affirms women’s calls to leadership and spiritual growth.
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Winging It: The Common Sense Guide to the Enneagram for Pastors
April 8-11, 2024
Cedar Valley Retreat Center,
West Bend, WI
This retreat is open to pastors, commissioned ruling elders, and congregation members seeking community for exploration of the Enneagram, rooted in an ancient, dynamic system for understanding ourselves (and others).
More information is available by clicking here.
Offered by The Omaha Presbyterian Seminary Foundation and in partnership with OPSF's Pastoral Leadership Revitalization Program.
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Thanks to the financial generosity and spiritual encouragement of our judicatory and subscription members, The Ministry Lab had a wonderful 2023, full of creativity, collaboration, and transformation. And we’re poised for an even more innovative 2024. We encourage you to learn what you’ve enabled in 2023 - and discover how we might collaborate with your congregation in 2024 in our New Year Newsletter, 2024. Thank you, members!!
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Congratulations to the Graduate!
Fred Allen Smalls, 106, received an honorary diploma from Georgetown High School in South Carolina.
News story at WPED.
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