Professor James Cone of Union Seminary (New York), known as the founder of Black liberation theology, will speak at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church on "The Cross and the Lynching Tree"  on Friday evening, May 24, from 7 to 9 PM.  The Rev. Dr. Cone, whose provocative and most recent book has been the subject of an ongoing conversation among four DC congregations, will offer further insights into the book, its lessons and its reception.  There will then be time for questions...

The last of our four inter-congregational discussions of James Cone's "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" will take place at Luther Place Memorial Church on Saturday, May 11, from 10 to noon.  The Rev. Karen Brau of Luther Place will lead the conversation of the last three chapters of Dr. Cone's book on race and faith in America.  Attendees may park at the Washington Plaza Hotel across from the church and receive a voucher at the church to exit the garage.  Come and join the convers...

Fifteen people have signed up to go on this mission to our Kenyan Partner, the Presbyterian Chuch of East Africa in Njoro to work with and meet the children in the Orphans and Vulnerable Children Program, which we have supported since its beginning seven years ago.  They are: Shamika Bradley, Beth Braxton, Bob Braxton, Carol Casperson, Martha Davis, Kristin Ford, Matt Ford, Susan Kipp, Molly Lauer, Karen Milam, Marsha Renwanz, Habib Takele, Laura Turner, Jim Turner and Sarah Williamson. &nb...

The NYAPC's Women's Retreat will be held at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center, 7100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD. Parking is available. Rev Frances Taylor Gench will lead us.

The church now provides a new way to make pledge payments electronically: the direct transfer of the payment from a personal bank account to an NYAPC account set up specifically to receive pledge payments. This new method involves a pledger setting up a payment from a personal account to the NYAPC account as an ACH (Automated Clearing House) direct payment. Once established, an ACH payment is potentially the most efficient way, in terms of church administrative time and fees, to pay your pledge....