After a long trial run as an attempt to serve as a news source for all Presbyterians, Presbyterian Neighbor News (PNNews.org) narrows its focus to serve a "smaller" audience — the 180,000 church members in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. (3 responses so far)

For the first time, youth groups in the host presbyteries and around the country are being invited to participate as volunteers for 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), according to the Rev. Paula Sanders, executive coordinator of the Assembly’s Committee on Local Arrangements (COLA). General Assembly runs July 3-10 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

Featuring worship, plenary sessions, workshops and excursions, the 14th annual convention of the Association of Retired Ministers, their Spouses or Survivors takes place at the Ramada Mall of America in Bloomington, MN, Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 9-12.

Byron Wade, vice moderator of the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), looked out on his audience at the Clearwater 2010 conference at Presbyterian Clearwater Forest, Deerwood, Minn., and asked for a show of hands from the “boomers.” He told them, “You are the last generation that goes to church on a regular basis.”