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MVP Mission Update
July 11, 2013
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Save the Dates!
Wednesday,
MVP Check - in
&
Dinner
(More details to follow)
Check -in location:
MVP Mission Center
109 Stonecreek Rd NW
New Philadelphia
Followed by dinner at Debbie's Spouses and children are welcome.
In fact, we encourage spouses with kids to join Lifeguard Donnie poolside at 3:30p for a swim while their pastor spouses/parents check in.
Tuesday,
September 17th
4-8p
Ordinary Time-
Taking
Care of Business
(Budget & Overtures)
Stated
Presbytery Meeting
JIM's Place
228 W High Ave.
New Philadelphia
Dinner included: $10 donation suggested
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Questions?
Comments?
Corrections?
800.693.1147
330.339.5515
MVP
Office Hours: Monday thru Thursday
8:00A - 4:30P
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MVP News:
Shauna will be out of the office:
Tuesday, July 16th to
Monday, July 22nd.
She and six other adult advisors will be taking 30 youth from Muskingum Valley Presbytery to Purdue University for the Presbyterian Youth Triennium.
There are still plenty of 2013 - 2014 Presbyterian Planning Calendars available in the MVP Mission Center! $9.00 each Contact Shauna to place your order or visit the MVP Mission Center to pick yours up today!
If you have placed an order, please pick up your order at the Mission Center. 2013 Mission Yearbooks are now on sale $12.00 each Per Capita 2013 |
GA
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6.87
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Synod
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3.25
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Presbytery
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18.36
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Total
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Support Salam Medical Center
Friday, July 19th
7pm
Trinity Presbyterian Church
830 Military Road
Zanesville, OH 43701
740-452-8482
 Dr. Freddy ElBaiadhy,
the director of SMC-Egypt, will be the key-note speaker during an evening of praise and prayer. He intentionally gathers Christians and Muslims to care for the medical needs of their community as a means of building peace in his country.
Visit their website:
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Job Opportunity
| Director of Music Ministries
at
First Presbyterian Church in Minerva
Part-time,
approx. 15-20 hours
Compensation:
$6,000 - $6,500/year
For more information, please see the
Please contact Mary Ann Borland by email or 330-823-3554, if you are interested in this opportunity. | |
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Job Opportunities
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Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wooster, a progressive community of faith, is looking for an innovative and creative part-time music director who is willing to rethink the role of the choir in a small church. If you would like more information please see the job description and/or contact Pastor Dries Coetzee. To apply for the position, please send your letter of interest with your resume to Pastor Dries.
Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wooster, a progressive community of faith, is looking for a part-time custodian who is a self-starter and can work independently. For more information, please see the job description and/or contact Carly Jones in the Church Office.
Applications should include a letter of interest, resume, and 3 references. Applications will be reviewed immediately with the goal of having a custodian in place by mid to late July.
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SUMMER MISSION
GATHERING
The College Drive Presbyterian Church
in
New Concord, Ohio
invites PWP & friends to their church on
Saturday, August 24
Schedule will be:
Registration 9:30am
Business, Program & Worship 10:00-12:15
Lunch 12:30 (cost $7.00)
Kathy Adams from Mansfield will speak
about "Life as a Mission", the small church & Haiti.
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Shauna will be out of the office:
Tuesday, July 16th through Monday, July 22nd for the Presbyterian Youth Triennium.
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Before Dawn... Time with the Father A certain unavailability is essential for the spiritual life. Henri Nouwen Jesus understood the importance of time alone with the Father. Even if it meant getting up early before dawn, he sought out time with the Father. It didn't matter that the day before was long and hard. Indeed, the intensity of the day underscored his need for time apart. He knew that the Father was his life source and that without him he could do nothing. The same is true of us. As he was to later tell the disciples, "Abide in me and I in you, for apart from me you can do nothing" (see John 15:4). Communion with God is a prerequisite to kingdom service.It is the place-or rather state of being-that opens us up to the movement of the Spirit in our midst. Communion is a spiritual state that we often resist (for reasons we can't even articulate), yet it is the state we yearn for. And when we enter that state, we know ourselves to be blessed as we simply rest in God. Without communion there can be no compassion for others. Nor do we truly intercede for those entrusted to our care. We are too preoccupied with ourselves. Jesus' capacity to be with God deepened his ability to be with us in all our fractured brokenness. In his time apart, he was often present to God on our behalf, listening. It is that same listening that we are called to today that the Spirit might intercede with sighs too deep for words (see Romans 8: 26-27). Not that we understand this much better than the disciples. When dawn broke, they sought Jesus out, exclaiming when they found him, "Everyone is looking for you" (Mark 1: 37).We too can get so caught up in the busyness of ministry that we forget to be still. We forget that we are to serve in the supply of the Spirit, not our own power. But the time will come when we learn that we cannot sustain the pace we have set for ourselves; that we cannot manage apart from the Source. Henri Nouwen writes: "A certain unavailability is essential for the spiritual life of the (leader)." It prompts the question: whom would we be if communion with the Father were to shape our understanding of leadership? 
Deborah Rundlett, general presbyter
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Food for the Journey
Psalm 42, As a Deer Longs
Romans 8:18-39, The Spirit Intercedes
Mark 1:35-39, Alone with the Father (or John 15, Abide with me)
Journey Questions
- Jesus made time to be with the Father even if it meant getting up before dawn. When do you spend time with the Father?
- What practices help you to "abide" with Jesus and commune with the Father?
- In what ways do you think that communion with God directs and shapes our intercession for others?
- Do you agree or disagree with Nouwen that "a certain unavailability" for spiritual leaders is essential? Why?
Questions for Reflection:
- Practically speaking, what must you relinquish in order to enter Christ's rest?
- What must you embrace?
- Where do you most need Shalom in these days?
- How can you position yourself for communion with God?
Source: Pastors of Excellence
Journey Practice: Silence & Solitude
This next week, set aside 10 minutes each day to be still. Be sure to turn off your cell phone, shut down your computer, find a "lonely" place where you won't be interrupted. If need be, jot down your distractions before you begin. And then be still and be with God.
Prayer for the Journey
I ask you, Lord Jesus, to develop in me, your lover,
an immeasurable urge toward you,
an affection that is unbounded,
a longing that is unrestrained,
a fervor that throws discretion to the winds!
The more worthwhile our love for you,
all the more pressing does it become.
Reason cannot hold it in check,
fear does not make it tremble,
wise judgment does not temper it.
Richard Rolle
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FROM THE CLERK'S DESK July 11, 2013 I struggle with my own attachment to "stuff," the material possessions that John and I have accumulated in our years together. I long for a simpler life, one less cluttered and burdened. And so I am intrigued by the periodic mailings I receive from Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. Could we give up our comfortable 3-bedroom house in Minerva for a you-build-it-cottage with a footprint of 261-874 square feet? This may be a stretch, but I see a similarity between that question and the question many Presbyterians are asking about the revised PCUSA Book of Order. Can we live without a document that no longer tries to answer or at least provide guidance for every conceivable situation that could come up as we live as God's people in this time? What are we called to give up, to simplify, to let go of as no longer necessary? I am grateful that I am serving as the transitional stated clerk of this presbytery. This one modifying word, transitional, is a continuing reminder to me that I serve on a leadership team that is called to guide this presbytery as we live into the future that God intends for us. There is great responsibility in the freedom that our Book of Order gives us. However, I believe that this freedom is also life-giving because it calls us to rethink what "stuff" we have accumulated along the way and have accepted as the Presbyterian way of serving God.
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Applications for the 2013 - 2 Cents A Meal Grant from the MVP 2 Cents A Meal Fund will be accepted at the MVP Mission Center through Thursday, August 15, 2013. The application form is available on our website, www.mvpjourney.org (see Forms - Miscellaneous) Please be sure to fully describe the program(s) for which funding is requested (number of people served, involvement of other faith communities and/or organizations...) with special emphasis on the difference that a 2 Cents A Meal Grant would make (new program start-up, expansion of existing program, leverage of matching funds, etc...).
The application must be signed by the clerk of session and the pastor/moderator of the sponsoring church.
Incomplete applications or those postmarked or received at the Mission Center after August 15, 2013, will not be considered.
Awards will be announced at the MVP stated meeting on Tuesday, September 17, 2013, at JIM's Place in New Philadelphia.
These grants are made possible by table offerings at presbytery meetings and gatherings and direct contributions from our congregations and individuals throughout our presbytery, who have discerned a call to respond to the growing number of children and adults in our communities who are hungry because they do not have reliable access to affordable, nutritious food. For more information, contact Paula at 330-339-5515 or by email, Paula@MVPJourney.org |
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
In an increasingly conflict-ridden and fragmented world, the God who grants peace and wholeness calls Christians to understand and address the root causes of violence and injustice so that we may share in mending the brokenness that exists in our world. Peacemaking is the human response to God's gift of peace giving. The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program invites leaders from our partner churches around the world to share their experiences as peacemakers in their own lands.
Our presbytery has just received preliminary news that our application to host a 2013 International Peacemaker has been honored in the person of the Rev. Wilfred Orr from Newtownbreda, Northern Ireland. Please consider if you are able to host Rev. Orr for a day or two in early October (4-9). He is able to speak with churches and community groups, present at a church supper or other evening meeting and participate in worship leadership. Given the short duration of his stay in the presbytery, we want to ensure that Rev. Orr visits both the north and south parts of MVP.
Churches who wish to host our visitor may contact Rev. Lynn Bozich Shetzer, 330-494-2288, callmeinstead330@yahoo.com or the Presbytery office.
Rev. Wilfred Orr
| In 2012, Wilfred was presented with an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's honors list for "Service to Community Relations." Throughout his time in Newtownbreda he has been a leading figure in the Ballynafeigh Clergy Fellowship and has worked tirelessly to promote both stronger ties between churches of all traditions in the district and between those from different cultural, social and political backgrounds. The proactive role played by the Ballynafeigh Clergy Fellowship is viewed as significant in contributing to this district remaining one of the areas in Northern Ireland most balanced between Protestant/Unionist and Catholic/Nationalist populations in spite of the polarizing impact of "The Troubles."
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What difference does the
Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study make?
The Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study, the denomination's award-winning mission devotional, features stories from around the corner and around the globe. Thousands of Presbyterians use it every day to learn about other ministries, to be encouraged by the witness of others, and to connect with and pray for them as they serve.
What makes the Mission Yearbook such an essential part of ministry? It is:
A way to be "in the know" about mission:
o Provides examples of ways Presbyterians are meeting the needs of a hurting world.
o Provides inspiring field-tested mission ideas
An aid in spiritual development
o Provides an inspiring story about the work of the church for each day.
o Provides daily lectionary listings to facilitate Bible study.
o Provides an outline for daily prayer to guide devotions.
An effective way to support the mission of the church
o Provides a list of PC(USA) mission partners to pray for daily
o Provides a prayer for each day to guide devotions
A way to connect with the larger church:
o Connect with mission partners to find out how to replicate their mission
o Connect with the people you pray for to let them know you prayed for them.
A tool that will save you time as a pastor
o Provides Sunday lectionary and hymn suggestions
o Provides sermon illustrations
o Provides instant devotionals for opening meetings
Discover how this wonderful resource can re-energize your members and draw them into the heart of Presbyterian mission and ministry! Order today! Call 800-524-2612 and request ISBN 978-0-98589-641-6, or visit pcusa.org/store/9780985896416.
Flyer for 2014 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook_PDF
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Prayer Requests/Updates
Please pray for the 30 youth and 7 adult advisors traveling to Purdue University for the Presbyterian Youth Triennium from Tuesday, July 16th through Saturday, July 20th.
If you or someone you know has a prayer request
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Journeying with Jesus to touch the world...
Empowered by the Spirit to:
Make Disciples, Nurture Our Faith, and Serve the Needs of the Community!
Shauna Engeldinger, Administrative Assistant
Muskingum Valley Presbytery
109 Stonecreek Road NW
New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663
330.339.5515
1.800.693.1147
Fax: 330.339.6225
Visit our website: www.MVPJourney.org
Regular Office hours
Monday - Thursday
8:00A to 4:30P
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