Developing, Nurturing
& Supporting Leaders
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Invite Someone Home for Christmas
These professionally designed Advent resources from PC(USA) are available to any Lincoln Trails congregation or presbytery. Use them as print ads, door hangers, flyers or inserts. We will help you customize them to suit your needs. There is no charge for the use of the ads.
The series includes one large ad and four small ones. Contact Marta for more information.
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2010
Covenant Gathering is July 4-9, 2010
Plans are underway for the 2010 Covenant Gathering, to be held at Michindoh
Conference Center, Hillsdale, Mich. The event is a family-friendly gathering with opportunities for learning, relaxation and fellowship. Visit the Covenant Gathering website for more information. |
What's Up With
Your Ministry?
We'd love to
share the news! Contact Marta at the synod
with updates from your presbytery, congregation,
camp, or other organization. We'll spread the
word!
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 Are You in Shape Fiscally?
Join us for a financial
planning seminar designed to help pastors get on the path to financial wellness.
Last year's participants have made significant progress in reduction of debt
with the tools they learned. This seminar is sponsored by the Synod of Lincoln Trails and presented by the PC(USA) Board of Pensions.
Seminars will be offered at the Interchurch Center in Indianapolis on Feb. 9 and at Bethany Presbyterian Church, Lafayette (Ind.) on Feb. 10.
Registration is free! Deadline to sign up is January 8.
For more information, contact the Board of Pensions, 800-773-7752,
extension 7223. To register, visit the Board of Pensions website.
This learning opportunity is available to all pastors and fulfills
a requirement for application for a Jubilee Grant. This specific seminar offering will not fulfill
clergy application requirements for the Board of Pensions Seminary Debt
Assistance Program.
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  Middle school students in the Synod of Lincoln Trails are invited to Spring Into Faith on March 12-13, 2010 at Knox Presbyterian Church, Naperville, Ill. 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.
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 Render Unto Caesar
We know clergy tax and terms of call issues can be confusing. Clergy and spouses, church treasurers, staff and lay leaders and middle governing body leaders are invited to a seminar to help answer questions.
This seminar is sponsored by the Synod of Lincoln Trails and presented by the PC(USA) Board of Pensions.
This seminar will be offered at the Interchurch Center in Indianapolis on Feb. 8. Registration is free! Deadline to sign up is January 8.
For more information, contact the Board of Pensions, 800-773-7752,
extension 7223. To register, visit the Board of Pensions website.
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Funding Mission Today and TomorrowIndianapolis, March 15-17This national conference features Dr. Brian Blount, president, Union
Presbyterian Seminary; Kathryn Miree, Planned
Giving; and Rev. Maggie Lauterer, pastor, First
Presbyterian Church, Burnsville, N.C. Numerous
workshops especially for congregational
stewardship will be offered. The Synod of Lincoln Trails and the presbyteries of Wabash Valley, Whitewater Valley and Ohio Valley are among the sponsors. For more information, download a registration form and a conference brochure from the conference website. |
...but not far! The synod offices have moved to Suite 210 in the same building. The new address:
1100 W. 42nd Street
Suite 210
Indianapolis, IN 46208
All phone numbers remain the same. The synod office space is shared with the Presbytery of Whitewater Valley.
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For Such a Time as This
This program is an innovative new pastoral residency program designed to serve underserved congregations and develop missional pastors by pairing small rural or urban congregations with recent seminary graduates in a two-year pastoral residency relationship.
PC(USA)'s Office of Vocation is currently receiving inquiries from presbyteries seeking to serve as potential residency site partners. Interested presbyteries with a significant number of "hard to call" churches are encouraged to read important information online, contact the Office of Vocation by e-mail, or call the Rev. Marcia Clark Myers at (888) 728-7228, x5753.
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