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Presbyterians Today May/June 2020 Presbyterians To d a y May/June 2020 The digital church arrives Is it here to stay? LINK UP AND JOIN THE CELEBRATION! Links of Love – our first-ever national collective giving activity – will be on display at the 224th General Assembly (2020) in Baltimore. Each link represents a gift given through the Presbyterian Giving Catalog, and our goal is to make a 1,000-ft. long paper chain. The total length of the paper chain will be announced at the Presbyterian Giving Catalog booth (Hall E in the Baltimore Convention Center) on Saturday, June 20. Come celebrate with us, and see just how far Presbyterian generosity can reach. Can’t make it? Follow @givingcatalog on Instagram and Facebook for Links of Love updates! God, from my youth you have taught me. — Psalm 71:17 Building a Life of Faith COVER PHOTO: MICHAEL ERDELYI PHOTO: COVER BUILDING THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD Every strong building needs a solid foundation. Won’t you join us? WHEN WE ALL DO A LITTLE, Through the Pentecost Offering, IT ADDS UP TO A LOT! Presbyterians are helping build a foundation of lifelong faith and service in our children, youth and young adults. To learn more, go to gomore, learn To pcusa.org/pentecost Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Volume 110, Issue 3 Presbyterian Mission May/June 2020 CONTENTS PDS 17116-20-003 22 26 16 Features The digital church is here — will it stay? Outdoor sanctuaries till new ministries 16 The COVID-19 pandemic showed just how 30 Presbyterians are looking at their church vital technology in the church could be. lawns as places of new ministries, turning When the health crisis ends, though, what green spaces into food forests and pollina- role will livestreaming and Zoom continue tor gardens. playing in congregations? Donna Frischknecht Jackson Donna Frischknecht Jackson Beds for children: a new mission focus Deacon makeovers 36 Churches in the Presbytery of Detroit take 22 With membership decreasing and the Matthew 25 to new heights, building beds struggle for volunteers increasing, con- for children and teens who have no place gregations are developing new models for to lay their heads at night. deacons, bringing the ancient office into Tammy Warren modern times. Sherry Blackman Pentecost Offering gives hope 40 to children and youth Juneteenth celebrations grow Gifts to the Pentecost Offering help 26 A holiday commemorating the freeing of churches build a brighter future for enslaved people in Texas, the last state children and teens. to grant freedom after the Civil War, is a Jessica Denson Van Hoy reminder that freedom’s work is not done. Zeena Regis On the cover: The Rev. Dr. Donna Giver-Johnston of Community Presbyterian Church of Ben Avon, Pa., prepares to livestream Sunday worship. Photo: Steve Mellon STAY CONNECTED Find us. Follow us. Like us. AND SHARE @presby_today pcusa.org/today facebook.com/PresbyteriansToday 30 36 40 Publisher Biblical quotations, unless otherwise . also inside Jeffrey C. Lawrence noted, are from the New Revised Standard Version. Editorial Donna Frischknecht Jackson, Editor Your privacy is important to us. We Jennifer Cash, Copy Editor never give anyone your information. 4 From the Editor Donna Frischknecht Jackson J. 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Broyles III History doesn’t have to repeat Presbyterians Today | MAY/JUNE 2020 3 FROM THE EDITOR | Donna Frischknecht Jackson The one thing I am certain of Jesus Christ is the same — yesterday, today and forever even hundred words are all I need for this editorial. were our personal agendas to get back the church of It’s not a daunting task. The real struggle is “word yesterday — to be the church we wanted, not what God Scrowd control.” And yet, even when writing in times wants. As a pastor, I’ve felt the frustration of leading of national crisis (9/11) and personal loss, words never God’s children into uncharted territory, where new ideas, abandoned me as they have now. I’m not sure what to like moving Sunday school away from Sunday and slowing write because I don’t know what our lives will be like by down all programming to pray more, were looked upon as the time you read this. crazy. What I do know is that the comfort we took in the One of the craziest ideas I had was that of being a predictability of our rinse-and-repeat lives screeched to a “modern-day circuit rider” in my rural area. I suggested halt during Lent when COVID-19 brought us phrases like that the churches use video conferencing to “beam” me in “ atten the curve” and “social distancing.” The pandemic on a given Sunday. I would preach in person at one church made us scramble for alternative ways to work, school our per week, with the other churches tuning in online. Each children and preach God’s Word. It was truly a Lenten church would have me in person one Sunday a month journey in which the invitation to walk more closely with and utilize virtual preaching the other Sundays. The idea Christ was no longer an option, but mandatory. tanked. No one was willing to risk using technology in The world was given a divine timeout that it needed. such a way on Sunday morning. That was three years ago. And with fatalities from the virus rising, concerns for Now COVID-19 has created a deluge of Presbyterian my elderly parents, disabled brother and truck driver YouTube personalities who have had to master online husband had me reevaluating what was really important. worship overnight. I, too, picked up the camera again Was I being true to myself — to God’s call in my life? The and resurrected my idea of online devotionals lmed at goats on my “someday” list edged higher up. my Vermont “farm” — remember, I still need to get those I also found myself reevaluating the stories in goats. When I posted the videos to the church’s Facebook this issue. The long lead time for the production of page, something happened: They were well received! The Presbyterians Today meant that 99% of the stories were crazy idea wasn’t so crazy after all. written many weeks before we even heard of COVID-19. I believe we are only beginning to process the impact The perfectionist in me wanted to rewrite the pages with COVID-19 will have on our ministries. I also believe that stories on how this crisis has already changed us. The the impact goes beyond the use of technology. This isn’t media, after all, didn’t waste time with its sensational about becoming the next televangelists, but about being headlines that this was the end of the world as we knew it. faithful in serving God’s children within the context to There was no time, though, for rewrites. which God has called us. For some, that might mean Still, I couldn’t stop thinking how bidding adieu to the utilizing the old-fashioned phone tree to keep connected old world wasn’t bad. I read about swans and dolphins with parishioners. And that’s okay. Wherever we go, I just returning to Venice’s less traf cked Grand Canal. I saw pray we don’t go backward. I pray we dare to risk big and images of China’s atmosphere clearing as fewer cars on boldly for the glory of God. the road meant fewer fumes in the air. I heard stories of When I look again at this issue, the perfectionist in time-stressed families sitting down to a meal together.
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