Professional Portfolio Information Review

Reminder to ALL PNEC Authorized Ministers to please fill out your Professional Portfolio Information Review, which can be found on the PNEC website  www.pnec.org  under the Ministry tab. 

Penn Northeast Conference

Be Effective…. Be Flexible…. Be Missional

Flexible, Missional Governance Training

PNEC Conference Center, Feb. 9, 2019, 9AM - noon

Create a Permission-Giving Structure

                                 Get more done with fewer People

                                                          Focus on Vision and Mission

 Live into the meaningful work of the congregation

                                 Provide opportunities for short-term volunteers

                                                                    Have fewer and shorter meetings

Register now for this important information workshop

Limited Space – First 40 people included

RSVP with numbers attending to p attyr@pnec.org by January 28

PNEC Presents... the 14th Annual PNEC Youth Retreat

"#REALTALK"

"Sexuality and our Faith"

All youth in grades 6th - 12th are invited

                                                   February 22-24, 2019

Blue Mountain Christian Retreat, 1 Christian Ln., New Ringgold, PA

$145 per person (includes meals Saturday & Sunday)

Limited Space...Register Early !  Click here for Registration Flyer.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS...

2019 BOUNDARY AWARENESS TRAINING

Next year, the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference UCC is designated to provide Boundary Awareness Training for the conferences, synod, and presbytery. Those dates and locations have been selected and are:

Click for the flyer to register for one of these events. Registration for all four events are now open.

    Our Conference Minister, Bonnie Bates, has published a book which may be used as a resources for pastors and congregations.

    CSS Publishing says “When members of the church experience loss, it can be difficult for pastors to discern how best to care for them. What can spiritual leaders expect in the grief process? What are we to do, to say, to journey with those who have experienced loss? What mistakes might we make that do more harm than good?

     In Navigating the River of Grief, (ISBN: 0788028855) Rev. Dr. Bonnie Bates shares the results of her important research into the grief process. Her concept of grief as a river is inspired by several biblical references to water, both its ability to threaten and give life. Bates uses case studies to present grief not as the neat linear progression of stages we'd like it to be; rather, it is a river that sweeps the bereaved along in unpredictable ways. Its choppy waters cause pain and its depths are menacing, but when we understand the flow of its current as a spiritual journey we can better help the bereaved navigate toward new life.

Disaster Response Ministry

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MINISTRY TRAINING UPDATES (Continuing Education)

ALL Authorized Ministers, please note:  We will be identifying these kinds of continuing education opportunities – The policy is effective January 1, 2019. If you have any questions, please contact the Penn Northeast Conference Office at 610-826-3113. 

Thank You!

Click HERE for list of current and up-coming opportunities!

ALSO

Stretching Beyond Video Links - At AM21 we premiered several search committee videos, well-received by Search and Call workshop attendees. These short films, each a few minutes long, tell stories that increase imagination for excellent pastoral leadership. The four videos include “Stretching Beyond Ableism,” “Stretching Beyond Sexism,” “Stretching Beyond Racism,” and “Stretching Beyond Heterosexism.” MESA produced these videos in conjunction with a UCC group of volunteers along with Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training. A public site is now available for you to download or link to the four videos and use with churches: https://vimeo.com/uccmesa. Future release will include a discussion guide in coming months.

 Children's Sermon for January 13 (based on Luke 3:15-17,21-22)   - by Rev. Dave Quinn

Items needed:  box of crayons or markers, white paper, clear glass with water in it. When kids come up, ask one to volunteer, to stand apart from the rest of group. Show kids markers/crayons and ask them what it is. Ask, if I wanted to draw a picture of a river or a lake on this paper, which crayon/marker would I take out---the blue one. Take out blue one and use it to draw a river on the paper. When there is a lot of water in one place, like in a river or a lake, water can look blue. But what color is water, really? Take out glass of water, and show. Water doesn't really have a color--it is clear. Hold water in front of volunteer's face--see, the water is clear, so I can see right through the water to see the face of (volunteer's name.) In today's Bible reading, Jesus goes in to a river( show your picture of river) to be baptized. We believe that Jesus is like this glass of water. Just like we can see through this water to see the face of (volunteer,) we see through Jesus to see God's face, to see what God is like.  And because you and I have been baptized (dump some of the water on your head,) Jesus wants for people to look at us and see what Jesus is like.

Informational