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Presbytery of Northern Kansas Newsletter -
January 12, 2026
| | | PNKS Streamlines Payments: Introducing RAMP for Faster, Easier Disbursements | | |
PNKS is always looking for ways to be more efficient with our time and our gifts. At the end of 2025, PNKS switched from using Bill.com to RAMP. Our accountants will now use RAMP to make ACH payments for vouchers.
The next time you are due to receive a payment from PNKS, you will receive an email from RAMP (communications@RAMP.com) asking for your bank/payment information. THIS IS LEGITIMATE! Please complete the information as requested so we can get your payment made as quickly as possible. We encourage you to set up any payments by EFT as it is quicker and cheaper, but if you require a paper check, we can make that happen. Please just let us know the next time you submit a voucher for payment.
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A Lenten Companion for Our Time:
Discipleship in a Divided Age
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As we prepare to enter Lent, many of us are carrying uncertainty, exhaustion, or concern for a world that feels increasingly fractured. This year, the Presbyterian Outlook is offering a new Lenten devotional — Discipleship in a Divided Age.
Written by Outlook Publisher/Editor Teri McDowell Ott, this daily devotional helps to anchor us in Scripture and guide our spiritual practices during this sacred season.
Discipleship in a Divided Age follows the Gospel of Matthew and speaks directly into our moment. Through daily reflections, thoughtful questions and weekly visio divina practices, this resource invites us to live faithfully amid division and uncertainty.
Whether you read it on your own, bring it to your session or small group, or share it with your entire congregation, this devotional offers:
- Six daily readings each week grounded in Scripture
- Reflection questions to help integrate faith into everyday life
- Closing prayers shaped for personal or communal use
- Weekly visio divina
- A pastoral voice that meets readers with honesty, clarity and hope
This is a digital download resource. For More Information, CLICK HERE.
| | Celebrating God's Work in PNK | | PNK Grant Supports Juntos Guatemala Visit and Mission Partnership in Salina | | |
In November, the PNKS Mission Ministry Team approved a Mission Project Grant submitted by FPC Salina. This grant was used to support discipleship development and an international mission partner visit by the brother/sister team of Gerber and Mirna Perez of Juntos Guatemala (JT). FPC Salina has been partnering with Juntos Guatemala for over 15 years.
The congregation was able to hear updates from Mirna on the evolving work Juntos Guatemala has been coordinating in the remote region of Ixcán, as well as exciting new developments underway in San Antonio Aguas Calientes.
In conjunction with Mirna's visit, her brother, Gerber Pérez was present as guest lecturer. Gerber is an experienced educator and leader in community development and collaborative cross-cultural mission. He has been an effective guide and teacher for multiple North American groups and service teams over the past 15 years.
| | While in Salina, Mirna and Gerber spoke to Salina Rotary, engaged with local healthcare professionals during a Lunch-n-Learn, explored the local partnership with Salina Grace Resource Center, toured the facilities of both Salina Grace and the Emergency Aid Food Bank, and joined in celebrating Salina's Women of Achievement. Mirna and Gerber also spent some dedicated time with youth and Midweek children. One evening, Gerber served as guest speaker during a Midweek Fellowship Dinner. On Sunday, the Pérez siblings lead Sunday Worship. |
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Have you ever heard the word POLITY? Have you ever wondered what it meant? If so, join our very own Bob Frasier from the comfort of your own home to learn about Presbyterian Polity. This 4-session course is from 7-8:30pm and takes place on 1/19, 1/26, 2/2, and 2/16.
- Spots are SAVED for anyone enrolled in the CLP program AND anyone that has completed the APS program and is interested in continuing their education.
- Clerks of Session, Session Members, Deacons, other leaders in the congregation: you are welcome to register and IF WE HAVE EXTRA SPOTS, you will be admitted to the course on a first come first serve basis.
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Registration is officially open for three of the retreats offered by OPSF (Omaha Presbyterian Seminary Foundation)in 2026. These events are open for anyone to register and participate. As a reminder, current participants in Pastoral Leadership Revitalization (PLR) may attend one retreat at no cost and PLR alumni may register for a discounted fee of $100. Information on a fourth retreat and other programming will be announced in the near future!
If you have any questions, please reach out to Rev. Tricia Dillon Thomas, Director of Programs, at programs@opsf-omaha.org.
https://omahapresbyterianseminaryfoundation.org/
| | A Fresh Future for Special Offering | |
For decades, Presbyterians have joined together through the Special Offerings for opportunities to support the mission and ministry of the PC(USA) while creating transformative change in the world.
Now we are excited to announce that the Special Offerings are getting a refresh for 2026 in line with changes approved by the 226th General Assembly (2024), transforming into three cause-based opportunities to create global impact through the PC(USA).
Aligned with causes that encapsulate the many ways the Church is at work in the world, the Special Offerings will continue to support initiatives that work to end inequality, feed the hungry, protect the vulnerable, and safeguard our shared future.
They will be:
- One Great Hour of Sharing — Supporting ministries of compassion through causes addressing hunger, disaster, poverty, climate change, and immigration/migration and refugees.
- World Communion Offering — Calling all God's people to cultivate forms of reconciliation through racial justice, gender justice, peacemaking, global witness and ecumenical and interfaith relations.
- Christmas Joy Offering — Supporting causes and ministries that serve God's children, including youth and young adults, children at risk, leadership development for people of color, Presbyterian-related schools and colleges equipping communities of color and servants of the church in need.
For more information on the Special Offerings, the causes and ministries they support, and a special Q&A session with Church leadership, register for one of our upcoming webinars!
Sign Up Now:
January 15, 2026 — 4:00-5:15 p.m. EST [REGISTER HERE]
January 28, 2026 — 7:00-8:15 p.m. EST [REGISTER HERE]
February 10, 2026 — 4:00-5:15p.m. EST [REGISTER HERE]
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