| Confirmation Retreat Registration Begins |
 The confirmation retreat for 2009 has begun taking registrations. This always popular event fills up very quickly. Churches are encouraged to sign-up now! The date will be February 20-22, 2009 and will be held at Camp Fellowship. The theme is "Footsteps of Faith....Let the Journey Begin!" For a brochure and registration form, please click here. Only 50 slots are available for register today!
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| Registration Deadline Nears |
 The Christian Education and Nurture Division of Trinity Presbytery will sponsor a great faith & family event on September 27 from 9AM until 12PM at Saxe Gotha Presbyterian Church, Lexington. Churches are encouraged to get their registrations in by September 15, which is the deadline. Please encourage your young families with children and youth to attend. Church pastors, youth, CE directors, and others will find this a helpful event. Dr. Andrew A. Sorensen heads the top of our workshop leaders, along with Tom Malone and Deborah Foster. Please click here for full details and registration form. Don't delay - the deadline is September 15!
---Nora Hope, Interim Associate for Christian Education and Leadership
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| The Fallacies of Planning |
by Dan Hotchkiss
I often read reviews of products I already own. Apparently I'm not alone: a lot of people, after a big purchase, hunt for favorable reviews. It makes us feel better and leaves us more convinced than ever that we made the right decision.
This kind of post-hoc thinking does not hurt if you just bought an iPhone, but in congregational planning it's a hazard. Economists call it the "endowment effect": we value what we have more than what we don't have. It's one reason churches find it easier to continue old programs than to start new ones-even when the cost is the same.
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| "What does Love Mean?" |
 A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?' The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. Here is a sampling. See what you think:
'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.' Bobby - age 7
'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,'
Nikka - age 6
This one was from a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife:
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
'Nothing, I just helped him cry.' |
| Calendar of Events |
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September 5-6- Spiritual Strategic Journey Learning Experience, Westminster-Columbia
September 27- "Faith & Families", Saxe Gotha Presbyterian Church, Lexington
September 28 - Called meeting of Presbytery, Batesburg-Leesville Church, 3:00 p.m.
September 28 - October 4- Presbytery-wide Mission Trip to Pearlington, Mississippi
October 6-8 - Over 50 Adult Retreat, Camp Fellowship
October 12 - Stated Meeting of Trinity Presbytery, Fairview PC, N. Augusta
November 7-9 - Lay School of Theology, White Oak Conference Center
November 7-9 - Middle School Retreat, Lookout Lodge, Black Mountain, NC
November 10-12- Ministers' and Educators' Retreat, White Oak Conference Center
February 15 - Stated Meeting of Trinity Presbytery, Westminster, Columbia
May 29-30 - Convocation of the 5 Presbyteries of SC (& Stated Meeting of Trinity Presbytery), Presbyterian College |
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| Called Meeting of Presbytery |
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Called Meeting of Presbytery: There will be a called meeting of Trinity Presbytery on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at the Batesburg-Leesville Presbyterian Church. The meeting will begin at 3:00 and is being held to receive new members into the presbytery and to hear the reports from the Commissioners to the 218th General Assembly. Handbooks will be available as a download soon. Churches, ministers and educators...watch for an email about the download!
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Sion Presbyterian Church:
Sion is going to Montreat and want you to join them! This day trip will take place on Saturday, October 25th. There will be a tour of the Presbyterian Heritage Center , the Asheville Farmers' Market and other facilities. Lunch will be in the Galax Dining Room at the Assembly Inn. A chartered bus will be hired so you will be travelling in comfort! For more information & contact numbers, please click here.
Mission Trip Still On:
The presbytery-wide mission trip to Pearlington, MS is still a go. Despite Hurricane Gustav's storm surge and flooding rains, the PDA camp will be open for our joint effort. Pealington experienced some street flooding and minor wind damage. Churches are reminded that there is still a need for volunteers - many churches are sending only one or two folks, which is great! No need to try to get a large team together. If the majority of our congregations sent one volunteer, we would fill the camp! Contact Tommy Stallings at 803-331-8062 or at: [email protected] Starting the week of September 14, 2008, a new community advanced handbell choir will be starting in the Midlands of SC. This ringing experience will be challenging, fun and very different (mostly secular in nature))from the music of a church bell choir and only designed for experienced , capable musicians. For more information on rehearsal times and location and for a registration packet , please see : www.southern-bronze.4t.com or email director, Betty Myers at [email protected]
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