Though less than 10 miles down the road from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (LPTS), the Presbyterian Center — home of the national offices of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — was for Ted Sharp, a world away.
All of that changed in January when Sharp a first year Master of Divinity student at LPTS, enrolled in Leaders for a Connectional Church, a weeklong, for-credit course designed to give students an intensive introduction to the PC(USA)'s mission and ministry and to bring to life the reality of the connectional church.
"Before taking this course, I had only perceived the church at-large from …
Shaped since her earliest youth by the powerful, social justice messages and bold missional outreach of her home congregation — Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church in Duluth, GA — Lauren Connell’s faith taught her to look both within and outside of herself.