Discussion Forum
Responding to Hate with Love and Justice
Responding to Hate with Love and Justice Report to Presbytery on May 26, 2022 from Presbytery Co-Executive for Vison & Mission, Tom Cramer Greetings, siblings in Christ. Grace and peace to you. As you well know, the recent weeks, and even days, have brought loss,...
A Pastoral Letter from Tom Cramer
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Over the past weekend, we experienced two unspeakable acts of gun violence on our nation’s soil, one in our own presbytery at the campus of Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, and the other at a neighborhood supermarket in Buffalo,...
Strategic Task Group Update and Invitation
At its September 2020 meeting, the Presbytery of Los Ranchos voted “that Council, in consultation with the Generative Catalyst Team and the Strategic Coordinating Team, appoint a Strategic Task Group, representative of Presbytery, for the purpose of review and...
Summer Youth Events: VBS Revisited
The Summer Youth Events, scheduled for July 10 and August 7 have been cancelled. Sunday, June 5, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Morningside Presbyterian Church1201 Dorothy Lane Fullerton, CA 92831 Calling all PLR Youth! Remember when you were a kid and summer meant VBS?...
PHS LIVE: Remembering the Community School of Tehran
Wed, April 27 at 5pm EST on Zoom and Facebook. Join a roundtable discussion about the Community School of Tehran led by Matthew Shannon. The Community School of Tehran was a Presbyterian Mission institution whose internationalist ethos influenced multiple generations...
Two PLR Churches Certified as Earth Care Congregations
Grace First, Long Beach, and St. Mark, Newport Beach, Presbyterian Churches have been certified as Earth Care Congregations by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s Presbyterian Hunger Program. This honor speaks to the commitment that these churches have made to care...
Blankets Spread God’s Love: A Word from LAC+USC Chaplain, Elizabeth Gibbs Zehnder
This Winter COVID surge has made for some very challenging days at the LAC+USC Medical Center. So many of the staff are out sick, families are restricted from visiting and patients are in need of spiritual and emotional support. One bright spot has been the outpouring...
Day of Remembrance Executive Order 9066 and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in Internment
Mary Buck Speaker Series:A Day of Remembrance - Executive Order 9066 and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in Internment Camps Saturday, May 7 | 1:00 - 3:00PMin the Sanctuary Grace First Presbyterian Church will host a special program on the significance and...
Los Ranchos Churches Celebrate and Work Together to Build a Bright Future
On March 19, 2022, New Hope Presbyterian Church and St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church celebrated their pending merger with a worship service and fundraising reception. During the reception, people wrote messages of love and encouragement on the unfinished walls and floor...
Greetings from the Nominating Committee
At the present time your Nominating Committee is hard at work on filling the current thirty-four vacancies on the Presbytery’s various teams, committees, and commissions as well as finding representatives to related entities. In the weeks and months ahead, you will be...