Developing, Nurturing
& Supporting Leaders
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Mark Your Calendar!
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.
Synod Meeting
July 25, 2009
Danville, Ill.
Continuing Education for Commissioned Lay Pastors & Preachers
October 21-23
Montreat Conference Center
Synod Meeting
Oct. 30, 2009
Urbana, Ill.
Check our website or contact the synod office for details!
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Someone is looking for your church. Invite them in.These professionally designed resources from PC(USA) are available free of charge to any Lincoln Trails congregation or presbytery. More information... |
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Sabbath and Summer Hours
Stop Work and Rest in God
The concept of Sabbath has been given serious thought across the 'trails' of our synod in recent months. Thanks to the synod's personnel committee, synod co-executive Dave Crittenden and I both were privileged to spend a season in Sabbath - resting, reflecting, reading, rejuvenating.
In February, all staff members from the synod and the Indiana presbyteries gathered for 24 hours of partnership conversation and exploration. It was no surprise that the conversation quickly turned to Sabbath. We encouraged each other to observe, in whatever way possible for each setting, Sabbath during the season of summer.
At its meeting on May 21, the synod's personnel committee approved the following summer Sabbath opportunities for the Synod of Lincoln Trails staff:
- One Sabbath Friday for each month of summer, when the synod office will be closed; we will begin this practice in July. Sabbath Fridays are set for Friday, July 2, and Friday, Sept. 4. The August date will be announced later.
- Office hours on the remaining Fridays of summer, beginning May 29 and concluding August 26, are 8:30 a.m. to noon.
The days of summer are referred to as "Ordinary Time" on the church calendar. What an extraordinary opportunity these days give us to "stop work and rest in God." May you, and those with whom you minister, discover and claim Sabbath this summer. And may God bless your rest!
Carol McDonald
Synod of Lincoln Trails Co-Executive
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Preaching Ordinary Time: The Home Stretch - September through November
A Synod Workshop for Commissioned Lay Pastors
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Champaign, Ill.
More information...
Download a registration form
Map to Westminster Presbyterian Church
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Free Stewardship Resource From PC(USA)
The 2009 Stewardship Giving magazine, produced in partnership with the Ecumenical Stewardship Center, is available free of charge online or by calling the Presbyterian Distribution Center at (800) 524-2612. Please ask for item number 12112-09-910.
The magazine contains useful articles for pastors, educators and stewardship committee members. The center section contains the basics for an annual stewardship campaign. This year's theme is taken from Lamentations 3:32, "New Love; New Mercy."
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McCormick Theological Seminary D.Min. Program Now Accepting Applications for November 2009
Do you want to deepen your ministry skills? Retool with new concepts and ideas? Need to draw from a deep well of spiritual renewal?
Applications received by June 15, 2009 will be reviewed by the Admissions Committee in July.
Read more...
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Continuing Education for Commissioned Lay Pastors & Preachers: The Place of Prayer in Reformed Worship
Montreat Conference Center
October 21-23, 2009
More about the conference...
Apply for a $100 scholarship from the Synod of Lincoln Trails. In order to receive a $30 discount from Montreat, please apply on or before September 9, 2009. Download the Lincoln Trails scholarship application.
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