2012 Presbytery Meetings
January 14- Arlington Hills PC, St. Paul
March 10- Oak Grove PC , Bloomington
May 8-First Presbyterian, Rochester
July 17- First Presbyterian, Hudson, WI
September 11- First Presbyterian, Shakopee
November 13-tba
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EMerge is a weekly publication from the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area (PTCA). Recipients include congregations, teaching elders, ruling elders, church members, committees, and friends. Please send submissions and e-mail corrections to Dennis Sanders, editor, at communications@ptcaweb.org .
Usual distribution: Thursdays.
You can find out more at the PTCA website:
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Job Openings
The following positions are available:
Sunday Morning Child Care Staff, The House of Hope Presbyterian, St. Paul
Interim Director of Children's Ministries, Presbyterian Church of the Way, Shoreview
Coordinator of Global Ministries, Westminster Presbyterian, Minneapolis
Music Ministry Leader, Chain of Lakes, Lino Lakes
Pastor, First Presbyterian, Stillwater
Pastor, First Congregational (Zumbrota) and Oronoco Presbyterian (Oronoco)
Child Care Provider, Presbyterian Church of the Way, Shoreview
Director of Youth Ministries, First Presbyterian, White Bear Lake
Treasurer, First Presbyterian, Hastings
Pastor, Spirit of Life Presbyterian, Apple Valley
These openings and others can be found at our Job Openings page. |
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Prayer Requests
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 continue to 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),Larry Patee (Ruling Elder, Buffalo), Mary McNamara (Teaching Elder, Honorably Retired and Tim Held (Teaching Elder, Honorably Retired).
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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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May 2012 Stated Meeting Highlights
 It was a late night on Tuesday, May 8 as the Presbytery gathered together for the May Stated Meeting at First Presbyterian in Rochester. The meeting adjourned at 10:30PM after handling several major business items. Among the agenda items covered were the proposed Gracious Separation Policy, the election of new officers including William Davnie as the new Stated Clerk, and a fond farewell from outgoing Stated Clerk Nancy Grittman. The Gracious Separation Policy was not decided on at this meeting, but will be considered at a Special Presbytery Meeting in the near future.
Look for a more detailed review of the meeting in next week's EMerge.
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Mission Co-Workers from Congo to Visit PTCA
 The Mission and Witness Committee of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area is proud to sponsor the visit of Presbyterian Church (USA) Mission Co-workers John and Glenda Fletcher to the PTCA May 19-24.
The Fletchers are mission co-workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
John is a surgical consultant to the eight hospitals supported by the Presbyterian Community of Congo (CPC). He works with the hospitals' staffs to improve their surgical knowledge, skills, judgment and techniques.
The Fletchers are coming to a church near you to share their journeys in Congo. Click here to find out the dates and times.
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Presbytery Council Starts Youth Initiative
 The Presbytery Council is looking for ways that our Presbytery might support and encourage our churches in their ministry to and with youth. Do you have a youth group? Who are the people in your church who have an active role in leading youth activities? Please send the names and email addresses of your youth-minded members to T.J. Parlette, First Presbyterian Church, Rochester, parlette.tj@fpcrochester.org, and we'll see what the Holy Spirit can stir up.
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The July Stated Meeting of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area has been moved from July 10 to July 17, 2012 from 4-8PM. The location of the Presbytery meeting stays the same: First Presbyterian Church in Hudson, WI. The move was made because the original date occurs only a few days from the end of the 220th General Assembly in Pittsburgh. With a number of persons involved with the Presbytery Meeting also taking part in General Assembly, it was decided to move the date of the July meeting a week ahead. Please make note of this in your calendars.
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Around the Presbytery
 Brother John @ Westminster: Brother John of the Taizé Community in France will take part in the annual Thin Places Ecumenical Taizé service on May 10th at Westminster Presbyterian in Minneapolis at 7PM. Brother John will offer a short meditation on scripture, and there will be the Sung Prayers and time of contemplation that are characteristic of the daily Prayers at Taizé. And-just as they are in Taizé-the children and young adults who come will be invited to sit with Brother John on the floor, before the green growing things and the lighted candles and the authentic Taizé Cross, in the darkened Great Hall.
Continue reading to find out more about the service and how you can help the hungry as well. Community Days of Service @ Faith:  Faith Presbyterian in Minnetonka will co-sponsor "Community Days of Service" May 19-20. Faith along with a nearby Lutheran congregation will send members out into the nearby communities to serve their neighbors though various service projects. Click to find out how Faith is reaching out to the Minnetonka-Hopkins area in love.
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Nothin' but Net: Andrew-Riverside in Minneapolis recently raised enough money to purchase mosquito nets for 100 people. The purchase will go a long way to stopping the spread of life-threatening diseases like malaria.
 Presbytery Seeker Seminar Set for June: The Committee on Preparation for Ministry (CPM) will host a one day "seeker" seminar for individuals exploring a sense of call to Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at Valley Community Presbyterian Church in Golden Valley, MN.
This seminar provides a structured way of meeting with and orienting seekers to the opportunities, challenges and responsibilities that lie ahead should they pursue a formal relationship with the CPM... Read more...
 Synod School 2012: Synod School 2012, the annual midsummer ministry of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies, takes place Sunday through Friday, July 22-27, at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. Synod School offers fun and mind-stretching courses, worship and singing that will be long remembered, and time for both fellowship and private reflection. Detailed information is available on the Synod School website: http://www.lakesandprairies.org/school.html
Carol Howard Merritt, author of "Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation," and "Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation," is this year's adult convocation speaker.
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PTCA Event Calendar
May 10: Jonathon Odell Author Discussion, St. Luke Presbyterian, Minnetonka
May 10: Thin Places Ecumenical Service, Westminster Presbyterian, Minneapolis
May 12: Disability Concerns Taskforce, Westminster Presbyterian, Minneapolis
May 15: Common Prayer, Presbytery Office, Minneapolis
May 16: Faith and Film, First Presbyterian, Hastings
May 17: Commissioned Ruling Elders Committee, Hope Presbyterian Church, Richfield
Find out about other events taking place in our presbytery by going to www.presbyterytwincities.org/calendar.
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