Upcoming
Events
Labor Day
September 7
Presbytery Office Closed
Scholarship Task Force
September 9
9:00am
JJ Jamokes
Caro
Deadline for the next
Bi-Week Brief
September 11
Presbytery Meeting
September 15
9:30am
Saginaw-First
CLP Class
September 19
9:00am
Presbytery Office
Committee on Ministry
September 22
12:00pm
Presbytery Office
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Getting to Know Your PC(USA)
The Presbyterian Communicators Network is for anyone who does church communication work. It is a wonderful resource for those who work on church newsletters, brochures, websites, any type of communication. It is for both staff and volunteers.
Visit their website to join the network or to get helpful hints on how to make your job easier.
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Loving God, thank you for those who hear
and
heed the call to lead your church.
We are truly blessed to have these
committed and loving leaders.
In the name of your most beloved Son.
--- Amen
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 Students in the Presbytery of Utica's
Lay Academy's most recent worship and sacraments
course explore their call to lay ministry
From the Mission Yearbook entry for August 17, 2009
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For Your Prayers...
- The Rev. Dr. Valerie Fargo, Member-at-Large on the death of her mother, Arleen Fargo, on August 23rd.
- Linden Presbyterian Church as they welcome their Interim Pastor, the Rev. Linda Corso, who began work there in August
- Sandusky Presbyterian Church as they continue their pastoral search
- Breckenridge-Emerson as they begin their search for pastoral leadership
- All the congregations as they begin the excitement of a new Sunday school season
Contact information for anyone on the prayer list can be obtained by calling the Presbytery Office at 989-799-7481 or 800-621-6905.
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The docket and other information relating to the presbytery meeting on September 15th at Saginaw-First is now available on our website's Documents page.
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It will soon be Harvest Dinner time. If your congregation will be hosting a Harvest Dinner we would like to list it on our Upcoming Events page of our website. Please e-mail the relevant information to Staci Percy at spercy@presbylh.org
Whether you are hosting a dinner or not, come join one of the other congregations for some great food and even better company!
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Information for the next announcements need to be to Staci Percy at spercy@presbylh.org no later than Friday, September 11th.
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Information received after that date may not be able to be included in the September 15th announcements.
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 Wondering what to do with all that official "stuff"?
We now have a Records Retention Guide available on our website to help you determine what items you need to keep permanently and how long you need to keep other important church documents.Please go to the Documents page of our website to view the document.Another helpful resource is the Presbyterian Historical Society website. |
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The Board of Pensions dues will remain the
same for 2010 which is 31.5 percent of
effective salary
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"WOW! God Will Do Wonders Among You!"
"Then Joshua said to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you."- Joshua 3:5
Thirteen Presbyterian members, 12 PW women and one man, from five of the churches in Lake Huron Presbytery journeyed to Louisville, Kentucky to be a part of 2,900 other Presbyterians in Worship, prayers, fellowship, leadership training, sightseeing and hosting other women guests form around the world. It was also a time of remembering and reunion for some and an unforgettable experience for others. It was wonderful to see and hear the Rev. Dr. Rhashell Hunter again as she gave her sermon on "Mother's Baby Girl", a take on on the prodigal son Bible story. She also was one of the Welcome Speakers from PC(USA) leaders as she is the head of Women's Ministries. The others were: Linda Valentine, GAC Executive Director; Gradye Parsons, GA Stated Clerk and Bruce Reyes-Chow, GA Moderator.
It is custom the the officers of General Assembly come and speak to the voting reps at the business meeting and also to the PW women in a plenary session. Many members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have never had the priviledge to hear from these officers in person. One of the greatest thrills of coming to the triennial gatherings is to hear from the leaders of the denomination.
Besides participating in the great workshops available and covering a great number of different subjects and leadership skills, the group of five first-times learned what a connectional church is all about. What a wonderful time we had to see Elder Chris Wolf, installed to one of the three top positions in the Churchwide Presbyterian Women Organization. Chris is now the Vice-Moderator for Peace and Justice!
Some of our eight members who attended this event have already started a special account to save for the next gathering in the year 2012 to be held in Orlando, Florida. How nice it would be to have more of our church PW groups able to be among the number attending to learn, and worship with thousands of other women while seeing and hearing the wonders God is doing among us.
Elder Sally Abotts, Beaverton-First
PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN IN THE LAKE HURON PRESBYTERY
FALL GATHERING - OCTOBER 23, 2009
"JOINED
AND KNITTED TOGETHER IN LOVE"
MIDLAND MEMORIAL CHURCH - 9:30 AM - 1:45 PM
Guest Speaker, Sarah Juntune
Vice Moderator of Studies and Spiritual Development for the
PW Synod of the Covenant
She will be speaking about her participation on the 2008 Global Exchange to Central and Eastern Europe
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We have a new page on our website for listings of open positions within the presbytery. We currently have 4 listings on there:
Director
of Young Adult and Youth Ministry
Memorial
Presbyterian Church, MidlandChoir
Director - Part-time
Linden
Presbyterian Church, LindenOrganist - Part-time
Linden
Presbyterian Church, LindenChoir
and/or Hand Bell Director
Sandusky Presbyterian Church, SanduskyPlease click here to view the complete listings. Or you may go to our Home Page and click on Help Wanted.If
your congregation would like to have a job opening posted on our
website, please e-mail the relevant information to Staci Percy at spercy@presbylh.org
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World Mission Challenge '09:
Plans Coming Together
Numerous Events Now Planned
From
Sept. 25 through Oct. 2, Amy Robinson, mission
worker in the area along the Texas/Mexico border (El Paso and
Ciudad Juarez), will be visiting Lake Huron Presbytery.
Events
are being planned throughout the Presbytery. At each event, Amy
will tell her story and the story of how God is at work around
the world through mission workers from the Presbyterian Church
(USA).
We now have several dates listed where Amy will be visiting in the presbytery. Please go to the Mission Stories page of our website for complete and up-to-date information.
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Useful Items Sought for Malawi Central Africa
First Presbyterian Church of Bay City is sending a
Sea/shipping container to Malawi Africa with school, medical, agricultural
supplies, tools, clothing, bicycles, computers, books etc. Choir robes
and Clergy gowns are also treasured commodities. These items will aid in
creating cottage industries, providing for sustenance and enhancing the
standard of living. The container itself will remain upon delivery as a
shelter or distribution center. This is the third container (size of a
semi trailer) that has been sent.Malawi is a tiny land locked country in South Central Africa
and is predominately Presbyterian. It is bordered by Zambia, Mozambique
and Tanzania. Malawi is among the poorest countries in the world.
All items are donated with additional essential items purchased. You can
read more about Presbyterian connections in Malawi in the Mission Yearbook for
Prayer and Study.
Items need to be to First Presbyterian Church by September 15.
For more information, please contact:
Allison Short ashort@gototransport.com
Patrick
Martin pjmartin@chartermi.net or
Rev.
Jeffrey Weenink jeff.weenink@presbynet.org
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Midland-Memorial/Uganda Mission InformationInformation on the mission partnership that Midland-Memorial has with Uganda can be found on the Mission Stories page of your website. You will also find information on their community-wide celebration on September 27th.
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 What's You Mission?
Want
to share your congregation's mission story with the presbytery, too?
Our churches are doing some amazing things as was demonstrated by all
of the great displays at the May presbytery meeting. Please share your
mission story with us. Your story can be about an ongoing project or a
one-time event such as Vacation Bible School. Please send a picture or
two if possible. Send information to spercy@presbylh.org.
We have added a Mission Stories
page to our website where you can read about some of the wonderful
projects going on in your presbytery. It is still under construction
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A Letter from LHPs Rhashell Hunter
Dear Friends,
I bring you greetings from the staff
of Racial Ethnic and Women's
Ministries/PW, where we are returning to a normal level of busyness in the
office after a summer full of events where we joined with constituents in
worship, fellowship, and renewal. In June, our ministry area planned and hosted
30% of the conferences at the Big Tent. The
Racial Ethnic Convocation,
the Multicultural Church
Conference, and the New
Immigrant Convocation were all held as part of the Big Tent event in
Atlanta in June. It was wonderful to see
them come together and to see the rich multiculturalism and diversity.
All of us have the potential to learn from the many racial ethnic and global
Presbyterians with whom we gathered with this summer.
With
little time to relax, we continued preparations to welcome 2,500 persons to the
Presbyterian Women's Churchwide
Gathering, which was held at the Convention Center in Louisville in
July. Many of the attendees remarked
that the plenary sessions, workshops, forums, exhibits, and preachers were
excellent. Also, mission co-workers were
commissioned at a glorious service of worship during the Churchwide Gathering.
Another highlight of this triennial
event was the many global partners who traveled to Louisville and participated
in the Gathering, particularly those from the PW Global
Exchange to Eastern Europe. Many
of the conversations became sacred exchanges with sisters in Christ from across
the world. We discovered from our sisters and brothers from many different
places how they witness to the Good News of Jesus Christ and the ways they
engage in mission, evangelism, and work toward justice.
An
additional way that the Racial Ethnic and Women's Ministries/PW ministry area
is creating avenues for women to share and exchange ideas about their faith
lives is through the Web site for All Women
in the Church. Launched in the spring, this social networking Web site welcomes all women to engage in conversations, join groups, and explore their
Reformed identity with other women and friends in the church. In just a few
short months, the site has attracted women of different ages, cultures,
theological perspectives and from different continents.
One such woman is Rev. Rachel Schwab of Hawaii who asked other members how they balance their roles as
pastors with their roles as mothers in the discussion in the Forum called,
"Rev. Moms." Rachel tells her own story of serving a congregation that welcomes
children and supports her as a mother. In worship, Rachel is able to balance
her role of mother and pastor, literally, as she holds her son, Noah, in her
arms as she preaches and prays over the sacraments before communion. In sharing her own story, Rachel prompted
other women to share their experiences of having children and being pastors. This is just
one example of how All Women in the Church is creating ways for women
to speak to each other and to us at the GAMC. I welcome you to view this short video to learn more about the
Web site.
I hope
that you experienced renewal this summer through your participation in the Big
Tent, the Churchwide Gathering, and the numerous other faith-renewing
opportunities offered by the Church. Have a great end of summer, and we look
forward to seeing you this fall as we join together to faithfully serve the
church.
Peace and Blessings,
Rhashell Hunter
Racial
Ethnic and Women's Ministries/PW
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Is your church newsletter online?
 If so, please add spercy@presbylh.org
to your mailing list. With so many of our congregations - and even
ourselves - going to an exclusively electronic version of newsletters,
we want to be sure that we remain on your mailing list. Please contact
the Presbytery Office at 800-621-6905 or 989-799-7481 should you have
any questions.
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