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Personal Connections:

Prayers for: 
 
  • The ministries of the Connecticut Korean Presbyterian Church, New Haven, CT, where The Revs. Iktae Kim and Do Hoon Kim are teaching elders; 
  • The ministries of The Rev. Susan Olson, teaching elder in a validated ministry at Yale Divinity School;
  • Personnel Chair and Roundtable member Anne Carney's mother died June 1 in Louisville after a recent hospitalization. Condolences may be sent to Anne at 7 Garland Rd., W. Hartford, CT 06107. 
 
June 9, 2016

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Presbytery Connections:

General Assembly Begins
June 18-25 in Portland, OR


Please pray for our commissioners and staff attending GA

Rev. Patrick Notley, Teaching Elder
Elder Lou DeLoma, Ruling Elder
Madeleine Olson, Young Adult Advisory Delegate
 



Rev. Bea Hoover-Mulvany, Transitional Presbyter


TECHNOLOGY EXPANDS TO
OPENING WORSHIP @ GA

Did you know that the general proceedings and worship during GA will be live-streamed? That means you can attend without leaving home!

Click here for more information.
Note that the video online now will be replaced with
live-streaming once the assembly begins.





Really? PSNE has a Chaplain for Pastors? Who knew? What does the Chaplain do? Click here to find out!
 

             Sing a New Song!
Thursday
September 8, 2016
10-3
First Presbyterian
New Haven
$50 per person
$100 max per church
includes lunch
and materials








Join us for "Sing a New Song!" a day-long workshop exploring worship and music possibilities for Advent, Christmas, and Christmastide Year A. Led by Paul Vasile, musician, composer, and dynamic worship leader. Open to clergy, musicians, worship leaders, and anyone interested in helping craft meaningful worship.

More details and registration here: http://creativespacepsne.weebly.com/sing-a-new-song

Sponsored by Creative Space, a new ministry initiative of the Presbytery of Southern New England




The Rev. Sean Miller has been called to First Presbyterian Church, Greenwich as their new head of staff beginning later this summer. Presbytery will meet Sean at the September meeting.


May 21, 2016 ... Christopher McCloskey (New Haven: 1st CPM candidate) receives degree from Princeton Theological Seminary!  Congrats Christopher.


Our very own Rich Reifsnyder was a guest blogger for the Presbyterian Historical Society writing "Decently But Not Always in Order: An Historical Overview of Choosing the PC(US Stated Clerk." 




This month's issue of Parish Paper is "
Making Congregations Greener." Read it and other issues by clicking here. Some restrictions apply.






The Week Ahead:
  • No meetings scheduled this week
  • Offices closed on Fridays thru August

Wider Connections:

Brooksby Village, a retirement community in Peabody, MA is seeking a full-time Protestant Pastor. Consider joining a dynamic team of interfaith clergy to do full-time ministry within a wonderful company and with active seniors. Creativity encouraged! For more information and to apply online, click here or email Rev. Chad Kidd at [email protected].

 
The Colloquy for Mid-Career Clergy (10-20 years in full time ministry) 2016-17 is accepting applications through June 15. Click here for more info.

  


The winner of the McCormick Prize for Innovation is Farm Church! Farm Church invites the spiritually curious into a life-practice of Christ-centered faith and service where Christ's rituals of feeding, teaching, and healing are couched in the growing, collecting, preparing and serving of food. Read more here.



 
Shared identity: New report highlights themes and priorities identified in denominational listening effort 
 


Check out the findings of a church-wide conversation that the Office of the General Assembly conducted in the fall of 2015 - an effort to gather opinions about the church from grass-roots Presbyterians and to advise a General Assembly that is expected to take a long, hard look at the future and priorities of the denomination and at its structures.Read it here.
 

Ministry Opportunities:


All MIFs (Ministry Information Forms) are posted online on the Church Leadership Connection www.pcusa.org/clc


 
Greenwich: First
PIFs are now being received for an installed associate pastor. Email Karen Oh at [email protected].

Groton: St. Andrew
Interim in place

New Haven: First
Interim in place


Transitional Presbyter

Stated Clerk

Office Manager 




PSNE
P.O. Box 388
Chester, CT 06412

860/388-0874



Rev. Jim Glenn
Chaplain to 
the Clergy
401/322-9350

Financial Secretary


Upcoming Presbytery Meeting Dates


September 17, 2016
Yale Divinity School
New Haven, CT
 
November 19, 2016
Hartford: First church
Hartford, CT