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Home for Refugees: Creating Partnerships to Welcome and Build Long-Term Resettlement Success
From its beginning in 2016 with one staff person and twelve volunteers, Home for Refugees has grown into an organization with nine staff members and over 200 volunteers all working to fulfill the mission of “empower[ing] refugees to sustain new homes, find new hope,...
Curriculum Library
The presbytery has invested in the PC(USA)’s most recent curricula for children, youth and adults. Copies of all currently available units of Follow Me: Biblical Practices or Faithful Living and Growing in God’s Love: A Story Bible Curriculum, as well as the...
Meet Our Commissioners to the 225th General Assembly
The 225th General Assembly meets in Louisville, Kentucky, from June 18 – July 9. The presbytery's commissioners are Rev. Dr. Robin C. Clardy, Ruling Elder Emily Fuentes, and Rev. Maggie Goodwin. The presbytery submitted questions to Robin, Emily, and Maggie about...
An invitation to walk alongside Church of Amazing Grace International (CAGI): Hosts Needed for Guests from Kenya
You might have come across my motto borrowed from Frederick Buechner i.e. "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet". I have found this place at CAGI. Our vision at CAGI is to build an enduringly strong and a...
That Was the Plan…
Our 2022 Hispanic/Latino Pastors and Leaders Retreat was a success and a great blessing. On May 12-14, fifty-two sisters and brothers from the Presbytery of Los Ranchos and other presbyteries had a unique time to worship, rest, learn, and play together. When you look...
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...