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Free Choir Music at FPC Garden Grove

Free Choir Music at FPC Garden Grove

Through 77 years, First Presbyterian Church Garden Grove has developed an extensive musical library. It is now time to find a new home for this free musical collection at any church who would like to come and look. There are seven filling cabinets full of sheet music...

Scripture and Sexuality Workshop

Scripture and Sexuality Workshop

If you have struggled with how to be open and loving while being faithful to the Scriptures; or if you know that you are following Jesus but don’t always know how to express your faith when others cite “chapter and verse,” we invite you to “A New Map: Navigating the...

A Winter Tale

A Winter Tale

A Winter TaleBy Susan Young Thornton Words. Words can tell a story. Words can ask a question. Words can encourage deep reflection. Words can incite action. Words for Winter 2023. Plan. The plan was simple. Fly to Portland for an extended weekend to attend a grandson’s...

March Learning Conversations

March Learning Conversations

At the Presbytery of Los Ranchos Gathering on Thursday, February 23rd, there will be three Learning Conversations. Information for each Conversation and its leader is below. Learning Conversation #1 Proposed Amendments to the Book of Order At the 225th General...

A Time to Rest, Restore, and Renew

A Time to Rest, Restore, and Renew

​It sounds counterintuitive, but Los Ranchos pastors and pastoral candidates found great help for “Returning to their Souls” this week from three Ministry Relations Officers of the Presbyterian Foundation. We focused on the “why” of ministry, our calling and purpose,...

Meet Our Moderator

Meet Our Moderator

This Thursday, February 23rd, the presbytery will install its 2023 moderator, Teaching Elder, Gail Stearns. Gail is The Irvin C. and Edy Chapman Dean of the Wallace All Faiths Chapel and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Chapman University. Her latest book...

Proposed Amendments to the Book of Order

Proposed Amendments to the Book of Order

by Reverend Jennifer Pattee, Interim Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Los Ranchos At the 225th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), thirty-three (33) proposed amendments to the Book of Order, the Constitution of the PC(USA), were approved to be sent...

Announcing the 2023 Bliss Fund Application

Announcing the 2023 Bliss Fund Application

A new source of funding is now available for congregations and new worshiping communities in the Presbytery of Los Ranchos. The Presbytery of Los Ranchos is the recipient of a private donation from the Bliss Family, and it was determined that SCT would oversee the...