Blog Post by Rev. Dr. Craig M. Howard
Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy Transitional Leader
[email protected]
Rev. Howard is on vacation this week,
but will return on Monday, July 31.
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Our Presbytery - Our Work
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This week's prayer basket...
Please pray for Kerry Downing, battling cancer and beginning a new drug regimen.
Click here to add a prayer slip to our basket, and please visit our prayer page often in unity and love of those who are listed there. You can find the page here.
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The Parish Paper is BACK!
Each monthly issue of The Parish Paper provides ideas, insights, research-findings, and practical methods that strengthen the effectiveness of congregations in accomplishing God’s purposes through their various ministries.
Unlike most newsletters, The Parish Paper is strictly a reprint-rights publication for congregations, judicatories, seminaries, and educational institutions.
You can access the most recent editions here.
When new editions are made available you will also be able to find them in the quick-links to the right, or you can access full editions on our webpage, under resources.
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They will be starving students in August - but you can help! Click here, and then visit UKirk to see how you can connect with these students.
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Presbyterian
Connections
The Parish Paper
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Upcoming Ministry Team Meetings
(All Teams meet at the Presbytery Center, unless noted)
Tues., Aug. 1
10:00 a.m. - COLA Communications
Wed., Aug. 2
12 p.m. - Pastoral Transitions/Care
Tues., Aug. 8
10 a.m. - Finance Team
11 a.m. - Personnel Team
4 p.m. - Administration/Support Team
Wed., Aug. 9
2 p.m. - Pastoral Transitions/Care
Wed., Aug. 10
5 p.m. - Congregational Vibrancy Team
Tues., Aug. 15
1:00 p.m. - Mission/Outreach Team
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A Pastor's Self Care:
Church Work-Life Balance
by Rev. Dr. Isaac Wanyoike
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Pacific Presbyterian Church
The Pacific Presbyterian Church was organized on July 17, 1864 by the Presbytery of St. Louis. The Rev. J. F. Fenton was named pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Pacific City. Early services were held in homes, the old school house on the corner of Osage and Fourth Streets, and the old Masonic Hall. In 1867 the congregation acquired the old stone Presbyterian Church.
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Installation Invitation for
Rev. Hannah Dreitcer
The Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy, invites you to share in the Worship of God and the Installation by the Presbytery of The Reverend Hannah Dreitcer, as Associate Pastor of Webster Groves Presbyterian Church, on Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 3 p.m. at Webster Groves Presbyterian Church. The church is located at 45 West Lockwood Ave., St. Louis, MO 63119. Directions can be found here.
A Reception for Pastor Hannah will be held at the church immediately following the service.
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Blessing Belleville Banquet
All profits from this banquet will go to support Beacon Ministries, Caritas Family Solutions, and Project Compassion. All three local charities do a great deal in Belleville to help families and children in crisis.
This years event will take place on August 12 at 6 p.m. Please click here for more information.
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Seeking Craft Vendors
The Maryland Heights Presbyterian Church, located at 200 Harding Ave. will be hosting a craft fair/bake sale on Saturday, October 7th from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. We are looking for vendors.
If you are interested in participating and would like an application, please email Pat Libhart at [email protected] or call (314) 739-4721. We will begin accepting applications on July 11th through September 8, 2017.
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Fall is rapidly approaching, the time when most congregations implement their annual stewardship campaign. Are you looking for a new stewardship approach or for new ideas that can be incorporated in the approach you are currently using?
Your Presbytery’s Stewardship and Missional Develop Team (a part of the Congregational Vibrancy Team) has developed, for your use, a Stewardship Resource Binder containing material you may find helpful in your campaign. This Binder may be found on the Giddings-Lovejoy website in two different locations; under the Resources tab on the home page, or by visiting the Congregational Vibrancy Ministry Team page onto Stewardship. If you would like immediate access you can view it here.
The Binder provides a table of contents followed by a brief description of each document in the Binder. The full documents follow. You may print the entire thing or just the documents that seem of interest to you. The Stewardship and Missional Development Team hopes you will find these documents helpful as you plan for a successful stewardship campaign
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Educational Opportunities
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E4 Faith Formation Conference
Educate-Empower-Energize-Engage
The 2017 E4 Faith Formation Conference will be held October 22-24, 2017 at the Embassy Suites (Kansas City Airport) in Kansas City, Mo.
This year our theme is “Christian Education Renovation”, and we have built the schedule and planned our workshops with that in mind. Jason Brian Santos is the Mission Coordinator for Christian Formation (Christian education, children, youth, college, young adult, camps and conference ministries) at the Presbyterian Mission Agency. He also serves as the National Director of UKirk Collegiate Ministries. More information can be found here.
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Mediation Skills Training Institute
for Church Leaders (MSTI)
This seminar is for pastors and all persons in positions of leadership that addresses the types of conflict faced by participants. Active and practical in focus, the sessions include lectures, discussions, and guided practice in role-plays. This inter-denominational event will be hosted by St. Mark's Episcopal Church
in Glen Ellyn, IL from August 7-11, 2017
. The deadline for a $200 early-bird tuition discount is July 14.
For further information about LMPC, our mission, and all our course offerings (including registration forms and discount coupons), please contact me directly or visit our website at
www.LMPeaceCenter.org
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Blessing the Waters of Life:
Justice and Healing for Our Watersheds
The national biennial conference, held September 26-29, 2017, of Presbyterians for Earth Care will focus on water issues at the nexus of faith, climate change and indigenous people. Caring for and celebrating the “waters of life” has always been central to Indigenous people of the world much as water rituals and images in scripture are central in the Christian tradition.
Our keynote speaker is the Rev. Dr. Barbara Rossing, an ordained Lutheran minister, and seminary professor, who is active in public theology in both the scholarly academy and the church, working on climate justice and the Bible. The worship leader is the Rev. Dr. Paul Galbreath, a professor of theology at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte.
Please continue hear to read more.
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Seeking: An Excellent Tenor for a
Trinity Presbyterian church in University City seeks a qualified and versatile singer to serve as Tenor Section Leader for our chancel choir. Must have excellent sight-reading skills and sing comfortably in a wide variety of musical styles. Competitive compensation. For full details, please contact Vicki Carmichael, Minister of Music, at 314-725-3840 or email to: [email protected].
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Children’s Ministry Assistant
First Presbyterian, Kirkwood is seeking a
Children’s Ministry Assistant will work closely with the Director of Children, Youth and Family Ministries, the Director of Music Ministries, the Children and Family Committee of Session, volunteers, and staff to facilitate the faith formation of the children of the First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, MO. The Children’s Ministry Assistant will be supervised by the Director of Children, Youth and Family Ministries. The position description can be found here. If interested please email, [email protected]
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There are many interesting sites within the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy that reflect the rich history of our denomination – the structures, people, movements and events that helped to shape our nation. As Missouri was a slave state, some of these sites were associated in some way with slavery. Slaves may have helped to build the church or sat in a church’s second floor slave gallery. Elijah Lovejoy, staunch abolitionist martyr, literally fought slavery to his death. Several of the churches are some of the oldest Presbyterian churches west of the Mississippi River.
The Presbyterian Historical Society established The American Presbyterian & Reformed Historical Sites Registry. Eight of the sites are located within the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy: Old Bonhomme Presbyterian Church (St. Louis County), Rock Hill Presbyterian Church (St. Louis County, demolished), Second Presbyterian Church (St. Louis), Bellevue Presbyterian Church (Caledonia), Bethel Presbyterian Church (Bay), First Presbyterian Church (Ironton), Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument and Grave Site (Alton, IL) and the Stephen Hempstead Grave Site (St. Louis).
The following articles should be of interest to historians: Ed Wicklein has written a piece on the bicentennial of the Presbyterian church in Missouri for a recent issue of the Presbyterian Historical Society’s newsletter; and check out the article, “Slavery and Schism,” in the
Missouri Historical Review
, Volume 111, No. 4, July, 2017.
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Next Week's Church Highlight: Pacific Presbyterian Church
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