Download as a pdf document at https://www.pachurches.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Family-Separation-Statement-6-18.pdf. A Statement on the Separation of Families at the Border For the LORD your God… executes justice for the orphan and widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. –Deuteronomy 10:17-19…
Here are the pictures and biographies of the panelists for Intersectional Realities Around COVID-19: Impacts on Vulnerable Communities and Partnering to Address the Problems (April 19, 2021) Rev. Ralph E. Blanks Rev. Ralph E. Blanks is the Third Pastor of the Vine Memorial Baptist Church. Rev. Blanks previously served as pastor of Harry Hosier, Mother African…
REPORT ON THE COUNCIL’S WORK IN 2019 The Pennsylvania Council of Churches is church bodies and agencies representing Anabaptist, Episcopal, Orthodox, Pentecostal, and Protestant communions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania working together for Christian unity for the sake of the world. [John 17:23] IMPORTANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS Looking Ahead. The Board of Directors made the determination to…
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed… —2 Corinthians 4:8-9 (NRSV) The Pennsylvania Council of Churches grieves with our sisters and brothers who have suffered the loss of life, shelter, possessions and security in the wake of Hurricane…
