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Utilize the E-news!
The e-news is your resource!
We'd like to encourage folks to print and utilize forms, brochures,
bulletin inserts, and any of the links to resources we provide in your local
church. Examples:
UMW
Encourage
attendance at the Fall meeting by printing the bulletin insert we've created. If you can't squeeze it in the
bulletin - you can use it 'as is' to provide more information about the
meeting. Print the registration form,
and bring it to church. Post it on a bulletin
board - or bring it to your UMW chapter meeting.
World Communion
Sunday
Church secretaries and pastors can download bulletin inserts and a poster directly from  the website. There are also talking points and an FAQ page that would make for an excellent resource.
The Central Conference Pension Initiative
We hope you'll use our Day of Remembrance Sunday Bulletin Insert, which highlights the WV Annual
Conference effort to raise money for the Central Conference Pension Initiative.
We are now archiving
the e-news online. Click here to read the last few issues of the e-news. Also, note the 'share' button at the bottom of every e-news. If you use facebook, twitter, or other social media, you can share the e-news with your friends and followers.
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Leadership Training Offered
Session to be held in Charleston October 21
This is a skill
development workshop for pastors who oversee staffs in their current or next
appointment, mission project directors, conference staff, district
superintendents, church secretaries, health and welfare directors and anyone
else who supervises employees or volunteers.
Registration Deadline is coming up quickly - on October 6. You can download the brochure and registration form here.
Leadership provided by Pam Harris and Garrie Stevens of Run River
Enterprises. Both have extensive experience in supervision within The
United Methodist Church. Run River Enterprises has provided excellent
consultative work to the annual conference throughout the past year in the Camp
Study Committee.
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"Turning Over A New Leaf: A Faith Community Green Event"
9 AM - 3 PM, Saturday, October 3
Rock Lake Presbyterian Church
905 Village Drive, South Charleston WV 25309
Click here for more information and online registration.
Sponsored by the West Virginia Council of Churches and the Presbytery of West Virginia
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Pastors School at Cedar Lakes Conference Center
The Rev. Dr. Andrew Purves will be speaking
on "The Resurrection of Ministry."
A native of Edinburgh,
Scotland, the Rev. Dr. Andrew Purves received degrees in
philosophy and divinity from the University
of Edinburgh, and a Th. M. degree from
Duke Divinity School.
Purves completed his
doctorate at the University of Edinburgh.
Licensed by the Church of Scotland, Purves came to the United States
in 1978. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in
1979. He served as minister of the Hebron Presbyterian Church in Clinton, Pa.
until 1983, when he was called to the faculty of Pittsburgh Theological
Seminary. Currently he holds the Hugh Thomson Kerr* Chair in Pastoral
Theology. Purves has a deep concern for the renewal of the church, and
speaks regularly around the country on matters of theological and
spiritual renewal. Recent publications include Reconstructing
Pastoral Theology: A Christological Foundation (WJK 2004), A Passion for
the Gospel: Confessing Jesus Christ for the 21st Century (with Mark
Achtemeier, Geneva 2000), Encountering God: Christian Faith
in Turbulent Times
(with Charles Partee, WJK 2000), Union in Christ: A Declaration for the
Church
(with Mark Achtemeier, Witherspoon 1999), The Search for Compassion:
Spirituality and Ministry (WJK 1989), and "The Trinitarian Basis of a Christian Practical
Theology" in The
International Journal of Practical Theology.
For more information and a full list of speakers, download the brochure here.
Click here to download the registration form.
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