Each week we pray for a ministry or ministers in the PTCA.    Click on the button below to find who we are praying for this week.

• We pray for those recovering from last week's tornadoes in the Midwest and Southern United States.  Find out how you can respond.  
• We pray for teaching elders to who are celebrating their ordination anniversaries this month.
• We pray for Teaching Elder Gwin Pratt (St. Luke Presbyterian, Wayzata) who had a death in the family recently.  
• We pray for those who are experiencing illness at this time including Dan Johnson (Teaching Elder, Honorably Retired), Joy Smith (Teaching Elder, Church of the Apostles), Ward Sessing (Ruling Elder, Church of the Way) and Larry Patee (Ruling Elder, Buffalo).  
• We pray for Christian Educator Joanne Shingledecker and the congregation of Presbyterian Church of the Way in Shoreview.  Joanne announced her retirement effective May 31, 2012.  
• We give thanks for Teaching Elder Barbara Anne Keely who celebrated a milestone birthday this week. 

Pray for the PTCA

If you have a prayer concern you'd like to share with the wider Presbytery, please contact us by email at communications@ptcaweb.org  .

Presbyterian Pastor to Premiere Play in Northfield: 

After 30 years in active ministry, Kristine Holmgren is trying a new vocation, writing plays.  Her play, "Paper Daddy" will make it's world premiere April 13 at the Northfield Arts Guild Theatre.  Presbytery members are invited to a reception following the April 13 performance.

The Presbytery Wants YOU! The presbytery is always looking for new faces with new ideas and vision to help the Presbytery be a vital witness in the Upper Midwest and throughout the world. Consider serving on a Presbytery committee.  The Nominating Committee is looking for Ruling Elders to serve on various PTCA committees.  Read more...  

Festival of Music at First-Rochester, March 11: Back by popular demand, Lee Afdahl, Director of Music and Organist of First Presbyterian Church of Rochester, is presenting his annual program showcasing regional musicians. Read more...   

Planning for the Church Present and the Church Future: Two upcoming conference in May will give churches the tool to become more mission-oriented and  start more missional churches. First off is theFunding the Missional Church, May 1-3, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 4100 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis. Funding the Missional Church is a conference for those who wish to learn about creating sustainable congregations of faith in the 21st century. Join us for three days of conversation and thought-provoking presentations on the future of the church, stewardship, and ministry. Immediately following this conference is The Church Planters Academy
May 3-5, Solomon's Porch, 100 W 46th St, Minneapolis.
If you're planting a church, or if you're dreaming of starting a new faith community, come to the CPA and learn from the very top practitioners of church planting over the past decade.

Read on for more information and to register.  

Workshop on Ministry Set For March 31: The Presbyterian Partnership Task Force is proud to sponsor the Presbyterian Partnership Workshop which will be held on March 31 at First Presbyterian Church in White Bear Lake from 9AM-Noon.  

Under the theme "Networking and Collaborating Together in Ministry," the event will include breakout sessions on such topics as church communications, facilities/building management, Christian Education and Mission. Information on cost and registration will follow shortly, but you can download a flyer, bulletin insert and graphics from the Presbytery website at www.presbyterytwincities.org/presbyworkshop.  

The Presbyterian Partnership is made up of six Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations in the Northern Twin Cities Metropolitan area.  These include: Arlington Hills Presbyterian in St. Paul, Chain of Lakes New Church Development in Lino Lakes, North Como Presbyterian Church in Roseville, North Presbyterian in North St. Paul, Presbyterian Church of the Way in Shoreview, and First Presbyterian Church, White Bear Lake.

Interested in a Conference or Workshop, but don't have the money? The Mission and Witness Committee of the PTCA is ready to help! A new streamlined 2012 Application for Scholarships to Conferences in the areas of Peace and Justice, Missions, Education, Disability Ministry and Leadership Development, is available online throughout the year. You can fill out the application online by going to www.presbyterytwincities.org/presbyteryforms.  

Common Prayer: As many of you know, the staff of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area gathers daily for prayer and devotions.  Join us every Tuesday at 10AM to pray! Called "Common Prayer" we will come together as we discern God's message for us and lift each other and the whole world in prayer. Join us at the Presbytery office for Common Prayer. We are located at 122 W. Franklin Avenue  in Minneapolis. 

 

 

 

Congregational Ministry Seminar Scheduled for April: April 28, 2012 at Valley Community Presbyterian in Golden Valley. Please save the date  for the one-day Our Ministry in a Changing Worldseminar for pastors and church leaders of all churches in the presbytery - an opportunity to help your church leadership recognize and realize your church's potential for ministry. More information to follow. Sponsored by the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area.

Find out about other events taking place in our presbytery by going to www.presbyterytwincities.org/calendar.