A group of young adult new immigrants in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ― nominated by new immigrant pastoral leaders ― gathered in the Dallas/Fort Worth area to be inspired and encouraged to pursue leadership roles in the church.
Editor’s note: Launched by the Presbyterian Mission Agency in fall 2009, For Such a Time as This was designed to renew and grow small churches and help them to become healthy, missional congregations. The program pairs small, underserved congregations in rural, small town, and urban settings with recent seminary graduates in a two-year pastoral-residency relationship, during which they are supported and guided by a cluster of pastor-mentors. Paul Snyder is one of six pastoral residents in the For Such a Time as This Class of 2012, serving Glencoe-Sloan Presbyterian Church, Bismarck, N.D., and First Presbyterian Church of Wilton, N.D. (Presbytery of the Northern Plains). — Presbyterian News Service