Enduring Witness Fund 2020 Application deadline is April 1, 2020. Grants are awarded in June. Purpose Community Engagement grant funds are intended for community outreach, more specifically for community organizing and community engagement by congregations in the Presbytery of Baltimore. There is $25,000 total available to be awarded by the Commission on Reconciliation. The grants […]
2019 Christmas Celebrations
‘Tis the season! With December here, we’re collecting a list of Christmas festivities, concerts and activities throughout Maryland. Please contact us if you have an event to be added. If you are looking to attend an Advent or Christmas service, please contact your local church for dates, times and more information. We wish everyone a […]
Community Engagement Grants Awarded
2023 Recipients CHERRY HILL $3,500The Cherry Hill Distribution Ministry provides bags of food and toiletries to community residents free of charge. This significantly impacts their health and quality of life. Every other month, residents from the Cherry Hill Community come to the church to pick up bags of food including canned goods, rice, beans, vegetables, […]
Artist Spotlight: Patricia M. Jackson
Patricia’s artwork is on display at the Presbytery offices through December. Seeking worship spaces for the Spirit – visible and invisible, new and old – has continuously been part of Patricia Jackson’s journey of faith through art. She learned to create with fabric and threads from her mother and both her grandmothers and expanded that […]
Seeking Program Assistant
Paid Staff. An exempt, term position with the Office of the General Assembly (OGA), GA Meeting Service Department Term: Approximately 6 months (concluding within 30 days following the General Assembly). The Program Assistant provides administrative support for the COLA office and works closely with the Volunteer Committee and work groups to manage the volunteer database […]
Artist Spotlight: Laura Oldham
Laura’s work is on view at the Presbytery offices through October. She is a member of the First & Franklin Presbyterian Church. When did you first recognize your artistic gifts and how has your art evolved? Creating art has been a part of my life since I was old enough to use crayons! I always […]
Why coaching?
The Spiritual Leader Development Commission has been exploring the best ways to support our clergy in their work for a few years. One of the realities in our presbytery is that the majority of our churches in the presbytery are pastored by solo pastors, sometimes in communities that are more isolated from other churches in […]
Triennium Report
On July 15th, almost 70 high school students from 11 different churches in our presbytery piled into two buses and headed for Purdue University in Indiana for the 2019 Presbyterian Youth Triennium. During their week there, they heard inspiring plenary speakers, made new friends in small groups, and shared fun times with other students from […]
A Letter to President Donald J. Trump from the Leaders of Maryland’s Christian Communities
The Ecumenical Leaders’ Group of Maryland released this letter to President Donald J. Trump in response to his many tweets about Baltimore over the past weekend. July 29, 2019 To the President of the United States: As the judicatory heads of a number of Christian denominations in Maryland, we want you to know that many […]
Big Tent 2019 Baltimore
August 1-3, 2019 Join the movement of Presbyterians in Baltimore for a Big Tent like no other. The theme, Called to a Movement beyond Institution, will emphasize our hope of the Gospel and its power to challenge institutional conventions. The goal is to come together and live in this moment, immersed in our current cultural […]