A Word from our Transitional General Presbyter – December 14, 2023
By Maureen Wright I love the season of advent! Sanctuaries decorated with purple paraments, decorated trees, banners, and advent wreaths are beautiful – from the most elaborate and glittery to the profoundly simple. Advent is the start of the church year with all of its hope and expectation. In [...]
News from the Presbytery’s Treasurer – December 14, 2023
2023 Year-End Benevolence Processing As the year comes to an end, I want to encourage you to remit any amount remaining in your church’s Shared Mission pledge, Per Capita, or other benevolence payments for 2023. The General Assembly is allowing us a little extra time to submit payments for [...]
Expanding Your Ministry Toolbox: Preaching Pentecost and the Long Road After
Preaching Pentecost and the Long Road After, an Expanding Your Ministry Toolbox course, will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at Village Chapel Presbyterian Church, Charleston, and on Zoom. Is there more to preaching Pentecost than wearing red and a birthday cake for the [...]
2024 Educator, Clergy, CP, ALP Retreat: Soul Space
Monday, Feb. 19-Tuesday, Feb. 20 (from lunchtime to lunchtime) at St. John XXIII Pastoral Center in Charleston. For educators, clergy, Commissioned Pastors and Authorized Lay Preachers. Soul Space is a way of studying the Biblical text that helps all of us tap into our God-given gift of creativity to [...]
Expanding Your Ministry Toolbox: Seeing Differently – An Introduction to Systems Thinking
Seeing Differently - An Introduction to Systems Thinking is the first Expanding Your Ministry Toolbox course of 2024. It will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, on Zoom. (Don't worry, there will be breaks and a time for lunch.) Bowen Family Systems Theory, developed [...]