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World Traveler Makes Students Feel at Home

Posted on September 11, 2023September 8, 2023 by ptsblog
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Ashley Johnson loves to travel. Some of her favorite journeys have been trips to Cuba, Costa Rica, and South Africa. She also loves her nearly annual trips to Manchester, England, to visit family members who live there—often around the Christmas and New Year’s holiday season. So it’s fitting that this native of Pittsburgh spends her…

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Meeting People Where They Are

Posted on August 21, 2023August 1, 2023 by ptsblog
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Amy Newell is a part-time pastor with a full-time ministry that models the blessings and relational opportunities of a bi-vocational call. It’s not uncommon for someone to move across the street from a church and become its pastor. But usually these events happen simultaneously, not three decades apart. PTS alumna and member of the Board…

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Tempe Church Has PTS Pipeline

Posted on July 10, 2023June 29, 2023 by ptsblog
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Four of Mission del Sol Presbyterian Church’s pastors since 1985 have been Pittsburgh Seminary graduates. There’s a well-worn path from Pittsburgh, Pa. to Tempe, Ariz., but it’s not only snowbirds and retirees who have made this journey. For nearly four decades, Mission del Sol Presbyterian Church has been the destination for alumnae/i of Pittsburgh Theological…

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