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Presbytery of Chicago Per Capita
The Per Capita for 2011 is $30.31. This year the total per capita for each church is based on the membership reported in 2009. This table shows changes since last year:  |
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 Competent Leadership for Ministry in the 21st Century: Training in Cultural Proficiency November 6, 8:30 am-3:00 pm
Gain skills in cross-cultural hospitality and communication to build more inclusive faith communities at this training, led by Elina Rodriguez and sponsored by the Multicultural Church Ministry Team and the Advanced Justice Mission Priority Leadership Team. |
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The PC(USA) Office of Vocation and the Presbytery of Chicago present "Leadership for the 21st Century for Healthy Ministry" November 6, 8:30 am-3:00 pm, at Presbyterian Church of Western Springs
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Musical Events
1. Gabriel Faure's Requiem will be sung by the Morning Choir of Fourth Presbyterian Church on All Saint's Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 6:30 pm as part of a communion service of remembrance. To find out more, email music@fourthchurch.org.
2. The Sounds of the South Loop series continues at Second Presbyterian Church on November 21 with a concert by Henhouse Prowlers at 7:30 pm. For ticket information or to learn more, click on this link. 
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 Three Things from the chicagopresbytery.org homepage1. Five Churches have staff positions available,
including one for a Communications Coordinator, two for organists, one for a choir director and one for an administrator. To learn more, click here.
"I especially need help one or two afternoons a week with checking in returned items in the resource center. I also need help staffing the resource center table at Assembly meetings and taking pictures and video at the meetings." Adele Hensley, Resource Center Coordinator
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140 people will be on the Senior High Fall Retreat this coming weekend at Covenant Harbor Retreat Center in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. |
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 Agape House Dessert Dish Fundraiser is November 8th.
You're invited.
"I can be myself here...Agape is a place of renewal, education, belief, and acceptance." -Erica
"Agape provides multiple opportunities to actively work for justice." -Ali
"Agape has been nourishment to my growth, my relationships and my faith" -Cid
Dear Friends in Christ,
Above are just a few thoughts from former and current students in our ministry. Each day, Agape House Christian Ministry offers students at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) a place that welcomes them just as they are, challenges them to grow deeper in faith, invites them to walk the path of Jesus in this world, and equips them for God's ministry of justice and love.
To join in support of this ministry, YOU'RE INVITED!
To a Dessert Dish Fundraiser on Monday November 8th.
Time: 6pm-8pm
Location: 100 S. Morgan St. (Chicago Presbytery Offices)
Parking: Free! Enter on Monroe St. You may also park on the street.
To purchase a ticket, send a check for $25 to Agape House Campus Ministry
1137 W. Taylor St. #139 Chicago, IL 60607. You may also purchase your ticket at the door. For inquiries, contact Erica Sanchez at agape.uic@gmail.com.
The program will include yummy desserts, of course! Also, we will have live music, and door prizes. Come to meet Agape students, hear about their experience, and find out what the life of Agape is like these days with yoga, worship, study and spirituality discussions.
Thank you for your support!
Rev. Kurt Esslinger
Director and Campus Minister
Agape House
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National Tentmaker Conference
Come to Mundelein Nov. 12-14 for the 2010 National Tentmaker Conference: "The TIME is NOW: Tentmakers in the Emerging Church" -- featuring Phyllis Tickle. It's designed for Bi-vocational clergy/Tentmakers, Commissioned Lay Pastors, Prospective Tentmakers, Seminarians and Candidates, Full-Time Parish Clergy and Judicatory Staff. And it's local! We'll meet at the University of St. Mary's of the Lake Conference Center in Mundelein. Please follow this link to see the brochure for more information.
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Springfield Lobby Day with Fourth Presbyterian Church November 17--Advocacy against Violence
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The Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program makes free breast cancer screenings available for uninsured women.
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2011 Assembly Meeting Dates
It's time to look ahead to next year's Presbytery meeting schedule:
- February 15, 2011
4:00 pm at Palatine Presbyterian Church - April 12, 2011
1:00 pm at Chicago, First Presbyterian Church - June 21, 2011
4:00 pm at Chicago Heights, First Presbyterian Church - September 20, 2011
1:00 pm at Evanston, First Presbyterian Church - November 19, 2011
11:00 am at Wheaton, First Presbyterian Church
Please note several important changes ! First, in order to minimize snow days, and reduce the four month summer gap, we're meeting in SEPTEMBER and NOVEMBER rather than October and December. Second, the meetings are scheduled for the THIRD week, rather than the second, in order to avoid a conflict with Labor Day and to give our committees more breathing room around the Christmas/New Year's holidays.
We are aware that many sessions hold their regular meetings on the third Tuesday. If our schedule change creates problems for you, please let me know. We need your feedback so we can start scheduling 2012.
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Challenges and Possibilities of Small Church Ministry, at Hope Presbyterian Church, Wheaton on November 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Get Ready, Plan to Attend the
"Presbytery of Chicago Mission 2010: Reaching Beyond" pre-presbytery on December 14.
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 The Middle School Winter Retreat is January 28-30 at East Bay Camp in Hudson, Illinois.
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 entering class for ACTs D. Min. in Preaching Program. Final Deadline is January 31, 2011. Contact Marcy Miller, ACTS Doctor of Ministry Program Coordinator (mfmiller@mccormick.edu) or Martha Brown, Director of Doctor of Ministry Recruitment and Admissions (mbrown@mccormick.edu) for more information.
McCormick is also accepting applications for the June 2011 entering Cohort for the Doctor of Ministry Program with concentrations in Building Beloved Community, Parish Revitalization and Pastoral and Spiritual Care. The final deadline for applications is April 1, 2011. See www.mccormick.edu for more information or contact Martha Brown, Director of Doctor of Ministry Recruitment and Admissions (mbrown@mccormick.edu) for more information. |
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Desperate Housewives?: Engaging Tyrannical Texts. Frances Taylor Gench to Present Zenos Lectures, February 21, 2011 at McCormick Theological Seminary
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 March 5, 2011 L.E.A.D. 2011 - "Building on a Firm Foundation" |
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This listing of upcoming events is sponsored by the Communications
Work Group of the
Presbytery of Chicago
Presbytery Council.
If you have submissions
for the Presbytery of
Chicago Preview, please send them to Adele Hensley
Events in the near future will receive priority for publication. The next Preview will come out November 12. The deadline for submissions is November 8.
Presbytery of Chicago
100 South Morgan St.
Chicago, Illinois 60607
312-243-8300 |
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