The Mission of Brown Jesus
She sat in the middle of the crowd of about 100 students at a distinguished Christian university in Southern California. Following my keynote remarks titled “The Gospel and the Politics of Race,” she raised her hand sheepishly and asked the ten million dollar...
Annual Event Theme Reflection
Theme reflection by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity from A Sanctified Art LLC “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few” (Luke 10:1). Jesus commissions seventy followers with these words, inviting them to be peace-bearers in new lands. Perhaps we might utter a...
Getting Outside the Box: Discipleship Through Retreat, Mission & Justice Ministries
Theme reflection by Theresa Cho Depending on what translation you read, Luke 10:1–11 is either titled “The Sending of the Seventy” or “the Seventy-Two”—leaving many commentaries to refer to this passage as “. . . Seventy(-Two).” The parentheses are significant because...
Getting Outside the Box: Discipleship Through Retreat, Mission, & Justice Ministries
Annual Event Theme reflection by John Bell I am constantly bemused by the word retreat because it has two distinct meanings which are predicated on the preposition which follows it. We can either retreat from or retreat for. In the course of a year, I...
APCE Annual Event Scholarships
APCE is pleased to offer several scholarships to attend each year’s Annual Event, and for Certification Courses offered at the AE and the PC(USA) General Assembly. For more information and for Application forms, visit APCE is pleased to offer several scholarships to...
Invitation to the 2020 Annual Event
Year after year, there are so many wonderful aspects to the Association of Presbyterian Church Educator’s Annual Event—old and new friends, helpful workshops, and inspiring worship and plenaries. Little Rock 2020 promises to offer all of these vital benefits, plus...
Catching Up with Scholarship Recipients
Val Murphy Scholarships are financial awards given each year to allow persons to attend APCE’s Annual Event. The scholarships are given to honor E. Valeria Murphy, former APCE Cabinet member who served as an educator in a Presbyterian church from 1947 to 1963....
Revisiting Past Scholarship Recipients
Val Murphy Scholarships are financial awards given each year to allow persons to attend APCE’s Annual Event. The scholarships are given to honor E. Valeria Murphy, former APCE Cabinet member who served as an educator in a Presbyterian church from 1947 to 1963. Val...
From the archives- Connect Activity and Outcome
*This article by Brian McLaren was originally posted on Sept. 1, 2013 in preparation for the 2014 APCE Annual Event. Before I became a pastor, I was an educator. I taught college English—writing, technical writing, and some literature too. If there’s one habit that...
Why House Church? Summer Series 2019
Why a House Church? “Whose turn is it this week?” “I can host.” “Okay, we will meet up at 6 p.m. See you then.” Every Friday night, a group of ten adults and eight children and two soon-to-be borns gather. This group, our house church, is like a family. We cook...
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