Watch the new Christmas Joy Offering video
Featuring the Stillman College choir
Watch the new 20122 Christmas Joy Offering video featuring the Stillman College choir. Your generous gifts to the Christmas Joy Offering enable deserving students to attend Presbyterian-related racial ethnic colleges and schools.
Explore racial-ethnic schools and colleges
Students like this young teen are the essence of the Presbyterian Pan American School, where 96 percent of seniors go on to colleges or universities. Photo by Toya Richards Hill.
The Racial Ethnic Schools and Colleges relate to the General Assembly Mission Council through the Racial Ethnic and Women’s Ministries/Presbyterian Women ministry area. Each college welcomes students of any racial, ethnic or cultural background. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) helps to support the racial ethnic schools and colleges through the Christmas Joy Offering. This offering is shared 50 percent with the Board of Pensions.
Educating racial-ethnic students has been a mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for decades. From Stillman College founded in 1876 to the Presbyterian Pan American School started as Texas-Mexican Institute in 1911, the denomination’s commitment has continued. Learn more about Racial Ethnic Schools and Colleges.
Discover Johnson C. Smith University
Johnson C. Smith University, a thriving educational center in Charlotte, N.C., celebrated the inauguration of the institution's 13th president, Dr. Ronald Lee Carter, in conjunction with its 142nd Founder's Day event in April, 2009. Read about the new directions the university is taking in global education and youth outreach and learn about the lives, accomplishments and future plans of JCSU's students. Learn more
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The students, faculty and staff of PC(USA) related Racial Ethnic Schools and Colleges are in need of both spiritual and material support. Here are some ways you or your congregation can help.
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