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The General Presbyter, the Rev. Dr. Kevin Yoho, will post ideas, observations, reports, and offer a few insights about our missional challenges and opportunities. Your feedback is welcomed.

Mission Yearbook Features Newark Presbytery

By Kevin Yoho on Tuesday, August 31 2010 at 08:20PM
Hello, I have received many kind and thoughtful responses and good wishes from across the country as Newark Presbytery is featured in today's ...

What Will You Make Better?

By Kevin Yoho on Wednesday, June 30 2010 at 02:05PM
What Will You Make Better?   What Will You Make Better? I just think things should work properly.   “So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing ...

GA219 is a unique opportunity

By Kevin Yoho on Wednesday, June 23 2010 at 05:55PM
    GA219 is a unique opportunity. I think Linda Valentine, Executive Director, and the General Assembly Mission Council (GAMC), are ...

A Remedy for Forty-Years of Decline

By Kevin Yoho on Wednesday, June 23 2010 at 01:07PM
Presbyterians are ready for a change.
 GA219 is a unique opportunity. Are we ready? Are you? Friends, don't slack off in doing what is ...

GP Report, March 2010

By Kevin Yoho on Friday, March 12 2010 at 06:43PM
Hello Friend, People, organizations, even complex organizations like churches, change when they are ready to change. There has to be a readiness ...

Evangelism Coach and Hunger Challenge- $10

By Kevin Yoho on Thursday, March 04 2010 at 10:41AM
Evangelism Coach and Hunger Challenge- $10   A 3-part series on evangelism sponsored by Palisades Presbytery will be led by the Evangelism Coach, The Rev. Chris Walker ...

African American Church Resources

By Kevin Yoho on Friday, January 29 2010 at 01:10PM
A helpful site for PC(USA) African-American congregations: http://www.pcusa.org/africanamerican/ Locally, a steering committee has been ...

A Hymn of Hope: In Haiti There is Anguish

By Kevin Yoho on Wednesday, January 27 2010 at 08:24AM
A Hymn of Hope: In Haiti There is Anguish A Hymn of Hope: In Haiti There is AnguishST. CHRISTOPHER 7.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 (“Beneath the Cross of Jesus”)In Haiti, there is anguish that ...

GP Report, January 2010

By Kevin Yoho on Thursday, January 14 2010 at 02:11PM
Since the improvement of the presbytery's ministry is inextricably bound up with the improvement of its congregations' ministries, I am ...

What have you learned about being the church this past year?

By Kevin Yoho on Thursday, December 10 2009 at 05:21PM
Each of our congregations are unique expressions of the Grace of God. Each pastor, session, and congregation has faced challenges and embraced ...

Thankfulness is Our Mission

By Kevin Yoho on Wednesday, November 25 2009 at 11:55AM
Happy Thanksgiving! Recently I have challenged congregations to think about what they have in abundance they can give away. Every congregation ...

Abundance v Scarcity; Whose side are you on?

By Kevin Yoho on Friday, November 20 2009 at 11:55AM
There's a battle raging in our churches. The outcome is being decided every day the congregation is sent into the world. Abundance v. ...

Newark Receives a Blessing Through Conan O'Brien

By Kevin Yoho on Saturday, October 17 2009 at 02:07PM
Newark Receives a Blessing Through Conan O'Brien For weeks now, the Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker, has been sparring with late night TV host Conan O'Brien on NBC's The Late Show with Conan ...

Compassion Fatigue or Satisfaction: Your Choice

By Kevin Yoho on Wednesday, September 23 2009 at 04:41PM
Compassion Fatigue or Satisfaction: Your Choice. Acts 15:36-41Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us go back and visit the brothers in all ...

Looking for Answers?

By Kevin Yoho on Tuesday, August 25 2009 at 04:51PM
Looking for Answers? In case you missed it, the Rev. Kenneth Goode, formally a member of Newark Presbytery and now serving a congregation in New Brunswick ...

GP Responds to PCUSA Report of Steepest Member Loss in 25 Years

By Kevin Yoho on Thursday, July 30 2009 at 03:02PM
GP Responds to PCUSA Report of Steepest Member Loss in 25 Years This news of the steepest membership loss in twenty-five years comes as no ...

Presbytery Hosts PCUSA Missionary

By Kevin Yoho on Tuesday, July 21 2009 at 04:18PM
Presbytery Hosts PCUSA Missionary July 21, 2009 Dear Presbytery Friends, As I collaborate with other presbyteries, serve on the steering committee of the Association of ...

God's Love Through Pastoral Care

By Kevin Yoho on Monday, July 13 2009 at 02:40PM
Hello, Pastoral care is a core ministry provided by every congregation through its pastor, elders, deacons, and every member. Many pastors have ...

G-Fy-G Youth Dies in Fire (update)

By Kevin Yoho on Friday, June 26 2009 at 03:49PM
(Updated 06-30-2009) Hello NP Friend. I am deeply saddened to report that G-Fy-G member, Tony Ward, Jr., died in a fire on Saturday morning, June ...

Delivering Hope in the City

By Kevin Yoho on Thursday, June 25 2009 at 02:41PM
Delivering Hope in the City Integrity House, Newark's preeminent addictions treatment program, recently celebrated the opening of a new women and children outpatient program ...

Why is the gang life attractive to kids?

By Kevin Yoho on Thursday, June 18 2009 at 05:37PM
In Newark, New Jersey, as in any city, young people want, and certainly need, to have opportunities to interact with people who model an ...

The Season of the Church: What Time Is It?

By Kevin Yoho on Thursday, June 18 2009 at 01:09PM
  There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:  a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant ...

Why is the gang-life attractive to kids?

By Webmaster on Thursday, June 11 2009 at 06:28PM
Why is the gang-life attractive to kids? In Newark, New Jersey, as in any city, young people want, and certainly need, to have opportunities to interact with people who model an authentic ...

Rev. Barbara Worthington Died June 6th

By Webmaster on Thursday, June 11 2009 at 04:31PM
I was saddened to learn that on June 6th, after an illness, the Rev. Barbara Worthington died with her husband and children at her side. Barbara ...

Open Spigots and Glowing Spirits. GP Report, May 26, 2009

By Kevin Yoho on Saturday, May 16 2009 at 09:04AM
Hi, Every one of our congregations are like open spigots and glowing spirits as they gather for worship. Even better, each person is then sent out ...

Know Your Community

By Kevin Yoho on Tuesday, April 07 2009 at 04:15PM
Loving without knowing is incomplete. To assist your congregation in loving your community neighbors, we want to help you know them better. ...

Race, don’t chase. GP Report, March 21, 2009

By Kevin Yoho on Saturday, March 14 2009 at 02:30PM
Hello, This is my General Presbyter Report for the March 21, 2009 presbytery meeting. Read about how during a downturn, generosity wins to build ...

Lent is about Transformation

By Kevin Yoho on Wednesday, February 25 2009 at 09:23AM
Hi, The liturgical season of Lent begins today. It offers us an opportunity to take a hard look at what we do, how we act, and who we, at our ...

Celebrating African American History Month

By Kevin Yoho on Monday, February 23 2009 at 12:46PM
Hello, All across our presbytery many congregations have been offering celebrations for Black History Month. Now you can add sound to those ...

Change is all around us. There is hope!

By Kevin Yoho on Thursday, December 11 2008 at 03:54PM
Change is…all around us. Change starts with agreeing together, “No longer!”

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. ......