In All Circumstances, written by

Wendy Tajima, Executive Presbyter

PRESBYTERY MEETING NOTES

In case you missed it, here are a few news items from our November Presbytery meeting:

~We elected Matt Colwell as next year's Vice Moderator, to work with Helen Darsie as Moderator and Peter Tan-Gatue as PEC Moderator.

~The 2025 budget was approved, as was the per-member apportionment of $70, unchanged since 2022

~You can still give to the offering for the hospitality ministry of Baldwin Park UMC until Dec. 1 at https://sangabpres.org/donate/

~If you want to respond to the crises mentioned at the meeting, go to:

1. Camino ministry in Ukraine: https://www.camino-zu.org/en/

2. Presbyterian Disaster Assistance:  https://pda.pcusa.org/ ~ using these codes:

~Ukraine, DR000156

~Hurricane Helene, DR000169

~Israel/Palestine: DR000081-

Israel/Palestine

3. American Friends of the Parents Circle – Families Forum, local contact for a joint Palestinian-Israeli organization for reconciliation:  https://parentscirclefriends.org/

IT'S ANNUAL

SURVEY TIME!!

Each year, the Commission on Ministry asks for the Teaching Elders, Commissioned Ruling Elders, Commissioned Pastors, Honorably Retired Pastors, and Teaching Elders at-large to fill out a survey to let the Commission know more about your ministry and ways that they can support your work. Please complete your appropriate form as soon as you can and submit no later than December 18, 2024.

Your completed form will be read by Stated Clerk for Administration, Carrie Kohler, and a member of the Commission on Ministry. COM will pray for the prayer requests at our January meeting and will address concerns and suggestions during the first meetings of 2025.

For those servings SGP Congregations in 2024: 

https://sangabpres.breezechms.com/form/ARTE823878

For Honorable Retired

Ministers of Word and Sacrament: https://sangabpres.breezechms.com/form/ARHRTE808334

For those serving in Validated and At-Large Ministries in 2024: https://sangabpres.breezechms.com/form/ARVALTE23889

THE 2025

PASTORS' RETREAT

All San Gabriel pastors, commissioned pastors, and candidates for ministry are invited to Los Ranchos Presbytery's Pastors’ Retreat, Wednesday, February 12, 2025, Serra Retreat Center in Malibu, CA. Space is limited, so please have your pastors sign up soon. Here’s the link to the electronic

flyer and registration page: https://losranchos.org/2024/11/2025-annual-pastors-retreat/

We’d love to have a great turn out from our sibling presbyteries this year. Please contact Tom Cramer at TCramer@losranchos.org

with any questions.

LA CRESCENTA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH JOB POSTING

La Crescenta Presbyterian Church’s Center for Children, a preschool and afterschool daycare ministry, is seeking a

new Executive Director.

You can find the job description

and related information at https://www.lcpc.net/employment.

CHAPLAINCY UPDATE

Click here to view LA General Medical Center Chaplain Charity Ngaruiya's latest report, dated October 31, 2024.

WINTERFEST RESOURCES

Resources from the Gabrieleno/Tongva Tribe

Legal Training for Churches

Neighborhood Center Resource List. Send updates or changes to perryting@sbcglobal.net

Treasurer's Manual PCUSA