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2026 News


Earth Care Congregations
We celebrate the following churches that are EARTH CARE Congregations. Central Longmont Presbyterian Church 3/15/2021 Longmont, CO First Presbyterian Church 3/15/2021 Yuma, CO First Presbyterian Church 3/15/2021 Fort Collins, CO First United Presbyterian Church 3/1/2022 Loveland, CO Westminster Presbyterian Church 3/15/2022 Fort Collins, CO The above churches have taken the following Pledge: Peace and justice is God’s plan for all creation. The earth and all creation are God’
Presbytery of Plains and Peaks
Mar 242 min read


New Support for Pastors and Families.
From Rev. Kristin Leucht Senior Church Consultant, Board of Pensions Greetings, It’s hard to believe we are already well into Lent! Lent is a holy season — one of reflection and introspection. It is also an opportunity to anticipate and imagine God’s new future. Two years ago, the Board of Pensions announced the Congregational Pastors Package as the new dues structure for congregational ministers. We are grateful for your partnership as we have implemented and lived into thes
Presbytery of Plains and Peaks
Mar 103 min read


Mexico Mission Trip 2026
The presbytery will be sending a delegation of people to the Yucatan Peninsula May 5 thru 12. We will be working with Yucatan Peninsula Missions in Leona Vicario. Churches from Fort Collins, Loveland, Fort Morgan, Gordon and Alliance will be represented with 12 total people attending. Our projects for this trip may include working on new classroom walls, building bleachers around the basketball court, teaching sewing and VBS. A special thank you to the Mission Committee for h
Presbytery of Plains and Peaks
Mar 101 min read


Promptings - 2026/03/22
There are seasons in the life of the church when the landscape shifts beneath our feet. Paths that once felt clear become less certain, familiar patterns change, and the horizon looks different than it did before. That certainly describes the landscape of the Presbytery, I think. Yet Scripture reminds us that God’s people have often met God most clearly in these very moments. Abraham left home not knowing where he was going. The disciples stepped into a world after the resurr
Steve Shive
Mar 102 min read


Update from the General Assembly Unification Commission
Under the leadership of the Rev. Jihyun Oh, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Executive Director of the Interim Unified Agency, the IUA has been discerning the shape of its new organization, one that will soon bear a permanent name. Its vision remains clear: “To convene, connect, equip, and empower the whole church as disciples journeying toward God’s wholeness — in the PC(USA) and beyond.” This is not simply a restatement of what th
Presbytery of Plains and Peaks
Jan 214 min read


Kairos Palestine II - A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide
New Study Guide Coming in Time for Lent! Three Christian organizations will jointly release a new congregational study guide for the confessional document A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide , the Kairos Palestine II statement from Palestinian Christian leaders. (Issued Nov. 2025). Developed by The Palestine Justice Network (PJN) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR), and Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA
Presbytery of Plains and Peaks
Jan 212 min read


Prompting: Choosing Imagination in a Time of Church Change
We are living in challenging times for the church. I don’t think, I need to rehearse the story of our culture changing relationship with the church. We have a lot of choices: give up, maintain in a hospice mode, dig in and try harder doing the same things we have done before or is there another way? My family system tells me to gut it out and move ahead. My maternal grandfather was a North Carolina farmer who knew how to make something from nothing. He started farming cotton
Steve Shive
Jan 213 min read
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