June 1, 2010 Monmouth e-News – Pastoral Letter to those affected by the oil spill

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In This Issue Pastoral Letter to those affected by the oil spill Reminders from the presbytery News from our congregations More news at the Mission Cafe Upcoming Events Pastoral Letter to those affected by the oil spill As the oil spill continues in the Gulf of Mexico and our prayers are with all those affected by the spill, Bruce Reyes-Chow, PC(USA) Moderator; Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly; and Linda Bryant Valentine, Executive Director of the General Assembly Mission Council have published a pastoral letter to those affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. Read the letter on the Office of the General Assembly website. Quick Links Monmouth Presbytery Main Website Mission Cafe Monmouth Presbytery Clerk’s Corner Hunger Action and Advocacy Monmouth Presbytery e-News June 1, 2010 Monmouth Presbytery Reminders Monmouth Presbytery Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. (Pre-meeting "Fact Finding Forum" BEFORE the scheduled Presbytery Meeting from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm)at the First Presbyterian Church of South Amboy, 150 North Broadway, South Amboy, NJ 08879, 732-721-4516. Please start submitting the materials you would like included in either the Docket or Packet. If I don’t receive your materials by the DEADLINE (Monday, June 14th), please be prepared to bring 120 copies to the meeting for distribution. Thank you in advance for your help in this matter. Terms of Call – Please mail them to the Monmouth Presbytery, Attention: Barbara, P.O. Box 369, Tennent, NJ 07763-0369 or email them to Barbara. Annual Reports – Please mail them to the Monmouth Presbytery, Attention: Barbara, P.O. Box 369, Tennent, NJ 07763-0369. Announcements, Upcoming Events or Classified Ads – If you have any that you would like posted on our Website or inserted in our Newsletter, please email them to Barbara. News and events from our congregations We have no new stories this week! Well, that’s not exactly true – there must be new stories but they haven’t reached the newsletter (probably holiday traffic). Please send yours in and we will share! Visit the Mission Cafe to read "oldies but goodies" and watch for new ones, posted as they come in. In the meantime, this is a good week for visiting and feasting on the miracle of fresh, locally grown strawberries – Bordentown has a Strawberry Festival on Friday and Cranbury on Saturday! News from the wider church at the Mission Cafe REGISTER NOW for Revive! June 11th-13th in Trenton – a gathering and celebration for followers of Jesus Apply for multifaith residency at The Community of Living Traditions in Stony Point When Christi and Jeff Boyd visit in August, they have many different program formats for interpretation Ask and tell! Building mutual accountability into your partnership – free Presbyterian World Mission Webinar on June 11 Upcoming events See More Dates Note: For regularly scheduled meetings of committees and other groups, please go to the Calendar page of the Presbytery’s Website Note: for regularly scheduled meetings of committees and other groups, please go to the Calendar page of the presbytery’s website Friday, June 4, 2010 – 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Strawberry Festival at Bordentown Saturday, June 5, 2010 – 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. – Strawberry Festival at Cranbury Saturday, June 5, 2010 – Spaghetti Dinner at South Amboy Church – 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 2 p.m. in Rumson – Deanna Witkowski Trio – also at 9:45 a.m. worship Sunday, June 6, 2010 – The Chapel Handbell Ringers at Red Bank Church – 7:00 p.m. Saturday, June 12, 2010 - Shrewsbury Strawberry Festival – 9:30 am – 2:30 pm Revive! Justice Revival-June 11, 12, and 13 in Trenton, NJ. An exciting interfaith event inspired by the EnVision conference of June 2008 and the Sojourner Community’s call for national "Justice Revivals." Speakers include Shane Claiborne (invited), Bart Campolo, Cornell West, and more. Sunday, June 13, 2010 -1st Presbyterian Church, Bordentown hosts COFFEEHOUSE / CONCERTfeaturing: Benjamin Wilton, acoustic guitar / vocals,Mike and Flora, guitar, trumpet, vocals -suggested minimum donation $10 Saturday, June 19, 2010 – Ecumenical Family Picnic sponsored by NJ Council of Churches Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – 5:30-6:30 p.m. (PRE-Presbytery meeting) at South Amboy – Fact Finding Forum June 24 – 27, 2010 - Big Interfaith Event in Princeton Saturday, July 17, 2010 – Gather at the River – Presbyterian Women in New Jersey August 13-22, 2010 – PC(USA) missionaries Jeff and Christi Boyd from Cameroon will visit Monmouth Presbytery Saturday, October 2, 2010 at First PC, Matawan – Spaghetti for the Soul – a conference for women en Food for Thought: In our small "Money and Faith" group that has been meeting at the Presbytery center, this week we discussed Jubilee, and the topic of Sabbath-keeping also came up. So when I saw this article "Keep a Sabbath" in an e-mail from the Presbyterian Leader, it seemed like the message was for me – maybe it will speak to you, too.

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