PC(USA) Awards Grants to Two presbymergent Communities
Monday, December 10th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under
Many of you may remember the announcement we made back in August when we found out that the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Office of Evangelism and Church Growth had $20,000 in funds available for emerging churches. Many groups submitted grant applications and two churches were selected to receive funding from the Presbyterian Church (USA):
- The Open Door, an emerging Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh pastored by BJ Woodworth, received $8,000 to help them assess the needs within their lower-income and culturally diverse neighborhoods; conduct surveys and meet neighbors in hopes to learn their stories; research, train and develop strategies for becoming the multicultural church they hope to be; hire an intern (for two consecutive years) to work with their church in building bridges with minority populations in their urban neighborhood and developing indigenous leaders from the neighborhood.
- The Living Room, an emerging Presbyterian chuch in the Westside neighborhood of Atlanta, GA, pastored by Tom Livengood, received $5,000 to help them more fully develop their website/virtual community for their New Church Development. The Living Room will be working with BreenSmith Advertising, a Westside advertising firm, to develop their identity and look.
We are excited for BJ and Tom and their respective communities - we look forward to seeing how this financial assistance helps them to bring about the Gospel and the Kingdom in their midst. It’s also encouraging to see the denomination help out in this way. Congratulations!
Comment by ryan pappan on 10 December 2007:
I am more excited than a fat kid in a candy store! I pray this means more opportunity for alternative visions of the church. Palabra to BJ and Tom! My prayers are with you both as you seek to serve the Kingdom. This is good news!
Comment by Tom Livengood on 11 December 2007:
I agree with you Ryan - this is good news! I believe that projects like The Open Door and The Living Room can make even the relatively small amount of money offered work like it was 100k. When you’re poor you’re creative!
Pingback by Presbymergent Retrospective, 2007 : presbymergent on 1 January 2008:
[...] The PCUSA reaches out to Presbymergent.org to help find and fund Emerging Presbyterian churches with grant money: The Open Door (Pittsburgh) and The Living Room (Atlanta) are awarded funding. [...]