February 23, 2009

Developing, Nurturing
& Supporting Leaders
Mark Your Calendar!

Stewardship Kaleidoscope
March 9-11, 2009
Kansas City

Spring Into Faith!
Synod-Wide Middle School Event
March 20-21
Crawfordsville, Ind.

Religion Communicators Conference
March 26-28, 2009
Boston

Presbyterian Writers Guild
April 23-24, 2009
Atlanta

Interim Pastor Training
May 4-8, 2009
St. Louis

Big Tent
June 11-13, 2009
Atlanta
10 different PC(USA) conferences, at the same time and in the same place!

Covenant Gathering
Family fellowship
and learning
June 28 - July 3
Hillsdale, Mich.

Check our website or contact the synod office for details!
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Slinky Spring into Faith!

Middle school students in the Synod of Lincoln Trails are invited to Spring Into Faith March 20-21, 2009. Activities will include fellowship, a mission project, worship, and lots of FUN! Contact Julie Shannon (317-283-5025) or Kristi Miller (317-923-3681/800 566-5996) for more information. For a downloadable brochure click here.
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This Easter, Reach Out To the Ones Who Are Searching For You

Professionally designed advertisements from PC(USA) are available free of charge to any Lincoln Trails congregation or presbytery. Use them as print ads, door hangers, flyers or inserts. Take them to your local print shop or newspaper after we help you customize them to suit your needs.

Contact Marta at the synod for more information.
 
God is Doing a New Thing
In the Presbytery of Ohio Valley


Do You Not Perceive It?

Eighty-one congregations in Southern Indiana seek a Presbyter for Common Life to promote openness to the guidance of the Holy Spirit so that together we may live out transforming power of the Triune God in mission and service.

Apply via email to Carol McDonald, synod co-executive. Deadline for PIFs: April 15.

Communion Still Life Interim Pastor Training
Is May 4 through 8


The Synods of Mid-America and Lincoln Trails (MALT) join together every spring and fall to provide interim training to pastors nationwide. Interim training is intended for those presently engaged in interim ministry and those inquiring about this ministry. Committee on Ministry members and presbytery staff persons with responsibility for congregations in transition will also find the training helpful. More...

MALT also offers interim executive training once a year for current or potential synod or presbytery executives. The next interim executive training is Nov. 6 through 10, 2009. More...
 
What Have We Got to Lose?

A Monthly Column for the Church by the General Assembly Moderator

by the Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow
I was privileged last month to participate in the Congressional Black Caucus inaugural interfaith prayer service as a representative of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

And while the historic nature of the presidential inauguration was certainly important, I was most struck by the constant remembrance of the Rev. Martin Luther King's commitment to non-violence in response to the shackles of oppression. More...