As pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Missouri, my job is to make things happen that are sometimes out of the box — like starting a food pantry for musicians.
If the Jazz Communion celebrated at First Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit, Pa., on Sunday, Sept. 6, was a riff on traditional worship, then the whole of the Rev. Bill Carter’s 30 years as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) teaching elder has been a riff on a conventional call to ministry.
In its ongoing efforts to encourage gifted new candidates to enter the field of church music, the Presbyterian Association of Musicians (PAM) has launched a new church-based grant program to support the training of church musicians in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).