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).  

Pray for the PTCA: Find out what church, person or ministry we are lifting up in prayer this week by clicking on the take action button.

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

10:36.

That was the time when the May 2012 Presbytery Meeting officially adjourned, 10:36PM, May 8 at First Presbyterian in Rochester.

The Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area had several issues to tackle at this meeting, including the election of new officers, the commissioning of elder commissioners to the 220th General Assembly this summer in Pittsburgh and approving the proposed Gracious Separation Policy.  All of the issues up for consideration were completed on May 8 with the exception of the Gracious Separation Policy which was postponed until a special presbytery meeting on June 12.

You can read what happened at the May 2012 meeting by downloading the latest issue of Highlights, the unofficial record of the meeting.  You can also look at our image gallery of the sights and sounds from the meeting.  To read Highlights, click here.  To view the images, go here.  To read Ruling Elder Robert Cross (Valley Community Presbyterian, Golden Valley) proclamation message on reconciliation and relationships, click here. 

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. 

Please click on the link below to read the official Call to the Presbytery Meeting, which includes directions to Oak Grove.

Call to the June 2012 Special Presbytery Meeting 

Pentecost Offering: According to the website of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), gifts to the Pentecost Offering "enable the PC(USA) to encourage, develop and support its young people, as well as provide assistance to at-risk children. In addition, a large portion of this offering can be kept by individual congregations for use in their own communities." The split is 60 percent for PC(USA) and 40 percent stays with the local congregation "to use for ministries with children at risk in their own communities." Additional information is at "Pentecost Offering." 

House of Hope Helps Job Hunters:

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...

  

Synod School 2012:

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.  

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