August 30 – Celebrate Bill Jordan’s ministry with us

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Monmouth Presbytery E-newsletter

August 30, 2010

In this issue

Celebrate Bill Jordan’s Ministry

Updates from the presbytery

This week at the Mission Cafe

Calendar of Events

Celebrate Bill Jordan’s Ministry Among Us

You Are Invited To a Celebration of Bill Jordan’s Ministry Among Us

Sail for 3 hours from Broadway Basin,47 Broadway, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

Aboard the River Belle

Boarding at 3:45 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010

$36 Per Person – Food, Beverages, and Gratuity Included

Reservations Required

Please return the following reservation form with your check of $36/per person by October 1 to:

Monmouth Presbytery

PO Box 369

Tennent, NJ 07763-0369

Attention Barbara Wasylyk

BILL JORDAN RETIREMENT PARTY RESERVATION

NAME: ____________________________________________

NUMBER ATTENDING: ______________________________

AMOUNT ENCLOSED ($36 PER PERSON):______________

AMOUNT ENCLOSED FOR BILL’S GIFT: ________________

Updates from the Presbytery

The next Monmouth Presbytery Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 28, 2010.

PLEASE NOTE that there will be a Pre-Meeting from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm with a visit from Vince Patton, PC (USA) Executive Director of Communications, Church Relations and Staff Services, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky.

The regular meeting starts at 7:00 pm at the First Presbyterian Church of Lincroft, Everett Road & West Front Street, Lincroft, NJ 07738, 732-741-8921.

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, September 20^th), please be prepared to bring 120 copies to the meeting for distribution. Also, if you want to be excused from the Presbytery Meeting, please let me know by Monday, September 27^th.

Please remember to send Terms of Call and Annual Reports to Monmouth Presbytery, PO Box 369, 446 Tennent Road, Tennent, NJ 07763-0369, Attention Barbara

Please e-mail announcements, upcoming events, and classified ads to Barbara

New in the Mission Cafe

Who is My Neighbor?

The Director of Public Witness, the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II, was interviewed by PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly on the subject of immigration: Who is my neighbor?

Click here to watch what he had to say.

Office of Public Witness Joins with the Presbyterian Network to End Homelessness The Presbyterian Network to End Homelessness (PNTEH) and the Presbyterian Office of Public Witness in Washington, DC, have announced a partnership focused on the PC(USA)’s mission effort to end homelessness in the U.S.

Pakistan Flood Response: Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) is working with ecumenical partners to respond to the disaster in Pakistan. One Great Hour of Sharing funds are helping with the provision of the basics -

Celebrate Evangelism Sunday, September 26 – Get materials for Evangelism Sunday, September 26, 2010. Follow the timeline for the Evangelism Sunday campaign “that they may know… Christ and our lives.” Develop prayer and Servant Saturday leadership teams now. Show Skateboarding Evangelism and Shared Christmas Evangelism as examples of how Christ is made known as “churches engage their communities” with God’s love.

A new chapter in World Mission – At the World Mission Luncheon at the General Assembly Hunter Farrell, director of Presbyterian World Mission, said the newest chapter in the denomination’s mission “love story” that began in 1837 is the formation of “communities of mission practice.”

Join a webinar on Earth Care congregations and Energy Star – PC(USA) Congregations that are interested in working on earth care are invited to participate in a webinar from PC(USA) Environmental Ministries and ENERGY STAR for Congregations called “Earth Care Congregations and How ENERGY STAR Can Help” on Wednesday, October 6 from 3-4 p.m. Eastern.

Join the Presbyterian Multicultural Network’s Multicultural Institute-November 9-12 in Montreat

Coming in the September issue of Presbyterians Today Coming in the September 2010 issue Why we giveby Karl Travis Christians are called to give generously – not because God needs our money, but because we need the spiritual discipline of giving. Practicing generosity helps us to grow in faith.

Two hundred participants from churches in southwestern United States and in Mexico met in May to discuss border and immigration issues in a conference titled “Crossing Borders, Encountering God.”

Seeking God’s Grace for the Gulf The National Council of Churches and its 36 member communions believe that prayer, reflection and healing are part of the long-term recovery that is vital for the Gulf. To begin this process, the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Program is hosting a national event “Seeking God’s Grace for the Gulf: A Day of Worship, Reflection and Healing” on Sunday, October 3 and invites you and your congregation to join them by hosting a worship service, candle light vigil or other event that lifts up the needs of those in the Gulf.

Five Smooth Stones Bob and Kristi Rice, PCUSA mission workers in Democratic Republic of Congo, have written an insightful letter with a great illustration of what it means to be partners in mission.

ACSWP Salt and Light – ACSWP Statement on Salt & Light Post-GA Summary In response to serious and important concerns raised about the brief summary description of General Assembly action regarding the Middle East Study Report contained in ACSWP’s e-mail, Salt & Light, of August 12, 2010, the co-chairs and coordinator of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy wish to clarify and revise several statements.

Calendar of Events

Note: for regularly scheduled meetings of committees and other groups, please go to the Calendar page of the presbytery’s website

Saturday, September 11, 2010, Rock Around the Clock – Trinity Presbyterian Church, East Brunswick – 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Tuesday, September 21, 7-8:30 p.m. Forum on Ocean County homelessness – at Hope Presbyterian Church, Lakewood

Saturday, September 25, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Hope Presbyterian Church, Tinton Falls – Annual Pumpkinfest

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 – Pre-Presbytery (Monmouth Presbytery) Special Event – 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm at Lincroft Presbyterian Church

Saturday, October 2, 2010 at First PC, Matawan – Spaghetti for the Soul – a conference for women

Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 at 1:30 pm until Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 about 2:30 pm – “Resting In Our Service” on the ocean front in Silver Beach, Outer Island, NJ.

Saturday, October 16, 2010 at Hope Presbyterian Church, Tinton Falls – Presbyterian Women of Monmouth Fall Gathering

Sunday, Nov. 14 – Watchung Ave. Presbyterian Church, N. Plainfield and Monday, Nov. 15 – Drew Theological School, Madison – Ground for Hope-New Jersey – Environmental Education and Leadership for Clergy, Laity, Seminarians, and Seminaries

April 8 – 10, 2011 – Women’s Retreat – Camp Johnsonburg Presbyterian Center

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