Board of Pensions Well-Being Workshop on "Simply Sensible Nutrition" - Take care of your health!  More than two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese. Almost one-third of children are overweight or obese.  Health care costs associated with obesity were approximately $147 billion in 2008. Annual medical costs for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than those for people of normal weight in 2006 (CDC).  In 2012, the total estimated cost of diagnosed diabetes was $245 billion.  Please view this PowerPoint from BOP to begin a healthy diet/exercise plan. 

Clerks of Session: even if you think that the Presbytery staff already knows this, would you please let David Vaughan know if your congregation has a currently-living former minister as Pastor Emerita/Emeritus. Email: [email protected] 

It is time to start thinking about adding an ornament featuring your church/ministry to the 2016 Salem Presbytery Christmas Tree. If you haven't already, please bring an ornament for YOUR tree at the Presbytery office.

The 2016 Board of Pensions Call to Health expires September 30th. Click HERE to use their new site which is easy to navigate, social, and mobile-friendly.

Access our new Salem Presbytery Directory with the following GLOBAL password:  clemmons3950 OR if your information is in the system you can follow the online steps to gateway in by your own passphrase. Please  help us by sending any corrections to [email protected].  

Global Food Week of Action & World Food Day is coming October 9-17, 2016. Click HERE for an excellent .pdf from Presbyterian Hunger Program featuring the Ten Commandments of Food and other ways for congregations to celebrate Global Food Week of Action October 9-17, 2016. Global Food Week of Action includes World Food Day (October 16) as well as the International Day for Rural Women (October 15) and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17).

You missed the discount deadline, but you can still register for the ARMSS/POAMN Conference. Don't miss this great gathering of older adults and retired ministers/spouses and survivors. Especially for pastors, and leaders of older adults. Registration fee ends this weekend. Register today to save! Download the registration brochure and Register Online.

"Fashion Me A People"(from a title of a book by Maria Harris)  Sept. 15th at Highland from 9am - 12noon. 

Human Growth and Faith Development - No cost - Bring your lunch or buy one available upon request

Ever wonder why Christians behave the way they do? Do you know why your programs and fabulous ideas yield little results? Do you just wonder why bother? Well I have the answers for you. This session will reintroduce you to all those theories of faith development and talk about how they intersect with how we develop as humans, mind body and soul. Believe me you'll get it and it will have a major impact on what and how you plan for your teaching, preaching, and interactions with all ages.

Annual NC Women's Preaching Festival - Her Voice Through the Seasons - is October 13-14, 2016 at Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church, Durham, NC is a festival of clergywomen gathering to inspire and be inspired as we pray, eat, worship, learn, and celebrate our ministries! For more festival information click HERE.  For festival registration click HERE.

Our Commission on Ministry is seeking to talk with ruling elders who are discerning a call to limited pastoral service in Salem Presbytery. If you are discerning the voice of God calling you or you see the potential in someone else, (ordained or non-ordained) speak with your pastor or pass that name along. We have the help you need to get you started in this process. The mission of God will be blessed by your participation in this important ministry. G-2.10 - [email protected]

The Equip Support Team invites you to read and join a discussion of Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr.  Click HERE for review and order sites. Join us for discussion at the November 12 meeting. 

A wide variety of Salem Presbytery members offer weekly blog posts about healthy ministry in our congregations. Organized by a team of members from Church Growth & Transformation Committee AND  Commission on Ministry, these posts are conversation starters about healthy ministry. This week's post is by Lee Zehmer, pastor of First Presbyterian in Lexington.