MNA Disaster Response: Ready When Calamity Comes
MNA Disaster Response is proactive in its approach to storms. The organization monitors major weather events, and when it hears of a disaster the team initiates a call to local PCA churches.
MNA Disaster Response is proactive in its approach to storms. The organization monitors major weather events, and when it hears of a disaster the team initiates a call to local PCA churches.
For the past three years, Chris has served Mission to North America as the Ecosystem Development Director.
The MNA Committee continues to formulate a search plan for God’s leading in the choice of the next MNA Coordinator.
In 2018, the PCA Unity Fund awarded 41 scholarships; in 2019, 67 scholarships.
MNA has positioned itself to better serve church planters and churches, while extending its influence to the broader Reformed world.
The coalition represents a variety of minorities across the denomination, including Native Americans/First Nations people, African Americans, immigrant professionals, legally present refugees and asylum seekers, and mixed-status families.
When established churches want to better represent the diversity of their communities, it’s often hard to know where to begin.
The three training tracks at the February gathering can help church planters who are just getting started, planters who have some experience, and leaders in church planting networks, presbytery committees, or church planting pastors.
The Unity Fund is intended to raise up leaders from diverse ethnic backgrounds by providing grants to educate, train, mentor, and develop minority leadership within the PCA.
“Generation Z and millennials have been given much. Until they’re put in a situation where they really need God to show up, they don’t really know their need for a Savior.”