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Presbytery Meetings
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The next Presbytery Meeting is Tuesday, November 8 from 4PM-8PM at Boutwell's Landing in Oak Park Heights, MN. Materials for the meeting will be available in late October at our Presbytery Packets page.
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Go Mobile!
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The website for the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area is now optimized to work on iPhone and Android mobile devices. You can get to our mobile site in two ways: one your smartphone, simply go to the www.presbyterytwincites.org web address and you will go straight to the mobile formatted site or simply scan the qr code to your above and you go immediately to the site.
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Parish Paper
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The November and December 2011 editions The Parish Paper, a monthly resource for local churches to which the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area has subscribed on behalf of all PTCA churches, are now online. We encourage you to share The Parish Paper with your session , committees, or teams within your congregation. To download the latest issues as well as archived papers, please click here.
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InPrint Newsmagazine
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InPrint is the newsmagazine detailing the mission and ministry of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area. To download the November 2011 issue, please click here.
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We continue to pray for Teaching Elder and Presbytery Treasurer Ed Martin. Ed's brother, Gene, died early Wednesday morning.
We pray for the family of Stephanie Anthony, teaching elder at First Presbyterian in Hudson, WI. Daughter Margaret is recuperating at home from a recent injury.
We pray for Bob Boehlke, a teaching elder who took ill while in New Jersey at a class reunion. He is still at a hospital in New Jersey. for more information and to send cards, please click here. A Caring Bridge website had been set up to folks up to date.
We pray for Teaching Elders, Tim Hart-Andersen and Elizabeth Hart-Andersen, as they deal with the aftermath of a fire at their house recently.
On the upcoming Veteran's Day, we pray for all those who have served in the Armed Forces, especially those dealing with injuries both physical and mental.
We've moved our prayers for the churches and ministries of the PTCA to our Mission and Witness website. Click on the date below to see which ministries, pastors and churches are being lifted up in prayer this week. Prayer Requests for the Week of November 6-13, 2011. If you have a prayer concern you'd like to share with the wider Presbytery, please contact us by email at communications@ptcaweb.org . |
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|  "We fearlessly follow the Holy Spirit into a changing world." Presbytery Meeting Strategic Focus: Nurture relationships and risk trust. (3rd guideline) The November 2011 Stated Meeting of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area took place on November 8 at Boutwell's Landing in Oak Park Heights. Boutwell's Landing one of several facilities owned and operated by Presbyterian Homes. Among the highlights was the passage of the 2012 Presbytery Budget, Presbytery approval of the purchase of land for the Chain of Lakes New Church Development, the retirements of teaching elders Janet Shannon and Mary McNamara and the approval of Barbara Englund and Melanie Kim as candidates. You can read Organizing Pastor Paul Moore's account of the meeting by clicking here. We also have photos from the meeting at our Flickr site.
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|  At the November 8, 2012 Stated Meeting of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area, the 2012 Budget was approved, meaning we can now announce the 2012 Per Capita for PTCA Congregations. The 2012 Per Capita is $31.63.
For a breakdown please visit our Per Capita Page.
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Don't Forget to File a Report! It's the end of the year, which means it's time to fill out congregational reports. The following forms are due January 31, 2012: the Necrology Form, Members of Session Form, Presbytery Commissioners Form, Current Clerk of Session Form and Terms of Call Form. All the forms can be filled out online and are available at the Presbytery's Form page.
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Presbybytes: Other News and Events
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Don't Miss the following events and news taking place in the Presbytery:
Find out about other events taking place in our presbytery by going to our blog page at www.presbyterytwincities.org/events
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