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From the February Presbytery Gathering
Commissioners to the recent Presbytery Gathering had the opportunity to attend Learning Conversations prior to the meeting being convened. The meeting opened with the installation of Moderator, TE David Beary and Vice Moderator, RE Lori...
Confessing Christ Together 2024
For a few short, but full days, our presbytery’s teaching elders gathered for a time of retreat and were led by Rev. David Beary on the topic, Confessing Christ Together: Ministers of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are distinguished from those...
Meet the Moderator: Rev. David Beary, PhD
At our February gathering the Presbytery of Los Ranchos installed our 2024 Moderator, the Rev. David Beary, PhD. David is a native of Missouri, where his mother, sister, and two brothers and their families still reside. David, after living in Texas and New Jersey,...
Input Sought for Lily Grant Funded Study
Fuller Seminary's Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts has received a Lilly Foundation grant for the study of children and worship. Specifically: Imagining Ministry with Children: Nurturing Children through Worship and Prayer. The task force for this...
Courtney Ellis Releases New Book
Courtney Ellis, Associate Pastor at Presbyterian Church of the Master in Mission Viejo and an eNews special correspondent has a new book! Looking Up: A Birders Guide to Hope Through Grief In this meditation on birding as a practice of hope, Courtney Ellis weaves...
EP Report from Tom Cramer
Shaped by Faith and Each Other Siblings in Christ, the work our Council and its Task Groups have been engaged in the past few months speaks to the heart of who we are as a wider community of faith. When you scrape away the husk, the outer layer of our councils and...
Supporting Mental Health in a Kenyan Immigrant Community at CAGI
By Courtney Ellis In August of 2023, Church of Amazing Grace International (CAGI) in Fullerton made use of a $5,000 Bliss Fund Grant from the Presbytery of Los Ranchos to support mental health initiatives among its congregation and community. After receiving the grant...
Introducing The Clerks’ Corner and Our Stated Clerk
Written by Susan Young Thornton Sandra Kim quietly joined the presbytery staff in November 2023, accepting the call as Stated Clerk after previously serving as the Interim Stated Clerk. Alongside the other work she has procured in her newfound position, Sandra has...
Lenten Study: The Confession of 1967
David Beary, pastor, scholar, and 2024 Pastors’ Retreat leader, begins a new Lenten Study of The Confession of 1967 beginning Saturday, February 17th, from 9:00 – 10:00 am via Zoom. Join the lively, questioning, always thoughtful group of students who have increased...