Presbytery of Southeastern Illinois Newsletter September 3, 2019
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SOLT Will Teach You the "Magic of Coaching"
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Wondering what coaching is? Wondering what it can offer you as a faith leader? This fall the Synod of Lincoln Trails ("SOLT") is gathering together fifty colleagues from our eight presbyteries. Over a 44-hour period, SOLT will help you experience the magic of coaching.
This exciting opportunity is
November 3, 2019
(7pm Central) -
November 5, 2019
(3 pm Central) in Bloomington, IL.
At the SOLT Coaching Summit you will gain ah-ha moments of clarity and insight, and an increase of imagination, energy and grit -- from each other and from our nationally-recognized coaches and facilitators, Rev. Drs. Laurie Ferguson and Chris Holmes.
For the more information and the application please visit the SOLT’s website at:
Applications are due TODAY (September 3rd)
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Bicentennial Celebration for Golconda
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The congregation of First Presbyterian Church in Golconda is pleased to invite you to their
Bicentennial Celebration!
Saturday, October 26th
2:00 - 5:30 p.m. - Open House
6:00 p.m. - Bicentennial Celebration - a combination of History and Music
Sunday, October 27th
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. - Coffee Hour
11:00 a.m. - Bicentennial Worship, opened by bagpipes
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Calvin Institute Offers Grants for Worshiping Communities
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Worshiping Communities
This grants program for worshiping communities is especially focused on projects that connect public worship to intergenerational faith formation and Christian discipleship, a theme that can unfold in many facets of worship from Bible reading to...
Read more
worship.calvin.edu
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Illinois Conference of Churches Present Ecumenism Event
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The Illinois Conference of Churches, of which the Presbytery of Southeastern Illinois is a member, invites you to participate their 2019 Annual Assembly, entitled "Ministerial Alliances: the Cornerstone of Ecumenism". The event begins with dinner on Thursday, September 29th and the program on Friday, September 30th at Wesley UMC, 502 E. Front St., in Bloomington, IL.
You can also read their recent
Public Statements
on Gun Violence, the Death Penalty, and Immigration, along with a helpful link on End-of-Life Issues via the link below.
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PreachingandWorship.org
aims to provide easy access to excellent on-line resources for preparing sermons and worship services for a wide range of denominations and traditions—a bit like a Google, Bing, or Yahoo search, specifically designed for preachers. This site is a collaborative project of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and the Christian Classics Ethereal Library/
Hymnary.org
with funding provided by Lilly Endowment Inc. To date,
92,598
web-pages are accessible through this website.
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Assistance Grants for Parents of College Freshmen
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Transition-to-College Assistance Grants available for...
Even with student loans and scholarships to help pay for college, the list of additional expenses can be long - especially for parents of freshmen, who must purchase items like computers and dorm room furnishings. That's why the Board of Pensions ...
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www.pensions.org
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Regarding Ruling Elders: Serving Faithfullly
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Regarding Ruling Elders: A Monthly Series for Serving...
The PC(USA) Book of Order calls for ruling elders to "exercise leadership, government, spiritual discernment, and discipline and have responsibilities for the life of a congregation as well as the whole church ..." (G-2.0301). As ruling elders...
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www.pcusa.org
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The Bridge Church Fellowship (formerly Argenta Presbyterian Church) has 17 choir robes to be adopted.
Attached, are photos. They are being to offered to anyone who could put them to good use!
Anyone interested may contact Brenda Grider, at 217 433 9860.
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You're Invited!
Joint worship service of the South Shared Ministry of the Presbytery of SE Illinois
Held at Camp Carew
Sunday, September 29th
4:00pm - Worship; 5:30pm - Potluck
Come and enjoy the hearing of the word and fellowship in the beauty of God’s creation. Contact Susie Selock at
sselock@hotmail.com
for more information.
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Attend NEXT Church Community Organizing Training!
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Don't miss this!
The Synod of Lincoln Trails will send 12 people from our 8 presbyteries to
NEXT Church
's community organizing training in Baltimore, Oct 21-25, 2019.
WHY? We believe church leaders are called to mobilize their congregations to be out in the community, for the sake of justice and on behalf of all that God is creating. We also believe NEXT Church can help church leaders do this better.
* Contact Wynesia@lincolntrails.org, before the mtg, for the Zoom link.
* Click below to view and access the application. Deadline is July 12th. Successful applicants will be notified on July 19th.
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All Session Records must be read prior to the November 21, 2019 Presbytery meeting. These events are held in regional locations, but you may attend one in another region if that day is better for you.
CLERKS - If none of these dates work for you, then send your moderator to the reading with the records of another member of Session or a previous clerk.
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For use at Presbytery gatherings/meetings. Authored by Rev. Bill McLean, Presbyter for Congregational Care.
Matthew 6:25-34 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
“So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today."
- How, in a world of budgets and bank statements, do we "not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear"?
- What does it look like to "strive first for the Kingdom of God and his righteousness" in our daily lives and in our life together as the body of Christ in the world?
- How might the Presbytery/congregation/committee be guided by this Scripture?
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