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What's Happening in January in Foothills
Presbytery
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 Happy
New Year from the Foothills Presbytery Staff!
Meetings and events scheduled for the rest of January 2008 are as
follows:
January 13 - 2:30 pm - Easley Church Officer Retreat
January 14 - 10:00 am - Older Adult Retreat at Providence Church
January 14 - 12:00 noon - Ministry of Governing Body Unity
January 14 - 12:00 noon - Inspiration & Support Team
January 14 - 3:30 pm - Safe Place Team
January 14 - 6:00 pm - Ghana Committee
January 14 - 7:30 pm - Mission Team
January 15 - 12:00 noon - Financial Forum at Fourth Church
January 15 - 6:00 pm - Ministry of Congregational Development
January 16 - 12:00 noon - Administrative, Staff & Office Team
January 16 - 6:30 pm - Hunger Task Force
January 17 - 12:30 pm - Educators
January 17 - 4:30 pm - New Church Development
January 19 - 10:00 am - Presbyterian Women Council
January 20 - 2:00 pm - PYC
January 21 - Presbytery Office closed for MLK Day
January 22 - 12:00 noon - Community Team
January 22 - 12:00 noon - Unity Team
January 22 - 2:00 pm - PACE
January 22 - 5:00 pm - Education Team
January 22 - 6:00 pm - Council
January 23 - 12:00 noon - Camp Buc Task Force
January 24 - 12:00 noon - Committee on Preparation
January 24 - 2:00 pm - Congregational Health & Growth at Grace
Covenant
January 25 - 6:00 pm - Tyger River & St. Andrews Sessions
January 26 - 8:00 am - Tyger River & St. Andrews Sessions
January 26 - 9:30 am - POMFAB Retreat at First Laurens
January 27 - 2:00 pm (Registration) - Overture Discussion at Westminster
Greenville
January 28 - 6:00 pm - Racial Ethnic Cabinet
January 29 - 12:00 noon - Nominating Committee
January 29 - 12:00 noon - Disaster Response Team
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Confirmation Retreats for 2008
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 The
Outdoor Ministries Board is pleased to offer two confirmation retreats
for the churches of Foothills and Trinity presbyteries. The 4th annual
confirmation retreats to be held at Camp Fellowship February 22- 24 and
March 7-9 are a wonderful opportunity to explore the history, mission and
polity of our connectional church in the context of a community of youth
all on the journey of faith through confirmation!
Registration for the
retreats will open on January 15. Retistration information will be
available on the presbyteries' websites and via email from Lisa Mallory (lmallory@trinity-presbytery.org),
confirmation retreat registrar, beginning on Monday, January 14. Spaces
fill quickly for this retreat, so be prepared and tell your youth to save
the date.
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Southern Annual Recreation Workshop
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 SARW
is a weekend for those interested in developing skills in recreation
leadership, particularly in church- related settings. Ministers, DCE's,
youth workers, children's ministry coordinators, youth grades 10-12 in
leadership roles, and any other interested leaders are encouraged to
attend. This workshop is held every year at Camp Bethelwoods in York,
S.C. The dates for 2008 are February 22-24. If interested, click on the
link below for details.
Southern Annual
Recreation Workshop
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Resource of the Week
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Reflections on the Lord's
Prayer: A Lenten Study is
available for preorder today. Well-known author, Ellsworth Kalas, has written
a very fine Lenten study based on the Lord's Prayer for The Thoughtful
Christian. This Lenten Study is available for downloading, but you may
preorder it at any time. It is a six-session study, and the Leader's
Guides are authored by Carol Wehrheim. The cost is $26. Click on The
Thoughtful Christian link for more information.
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Officer Development Event
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 Foothills
Presbytery is offering a training event for officers in the church on
February 23 from 9:00 a.m. until 2:45 p.m. at St. Giles Presbyterian
Church in Greenville. N. Graham Standish (pictured), the keynoter, will
be speaking on "Restoring Spiritual Vibrancy to our Churches."
Workshops will be offered on caring for congregations, developing
missions, planning Christian Education, Disaster Training, Clerks of
Sessions, Treasurers, and many more. The brochure will be on the
Foothills Presbytery website or may be obtained by calling the office at
288-5774.
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PC(USA) International Mission Work
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In two separate letters
recently from GA Moderator Joan Gray, the subject of missions and
missionaries was discussed. In December Rev. Gray answered a question that
she says is frequently asked at "question and answer" sessions
around the church. That question is "Why isn't our denomination
sending out missionaries anymore?"
She answers by saying,
"I always take this question as a teaching opportunity. First we do
have more than 250 missionaries in countries all over the world right
now. Second, we have requests from international partner churches for
help, and we have the people who would go as missionaries in response to
their invitations right now if we had the money to send them. Third, if
you want our denomination to send out more missionaries, then you can
make a difference by sending your money to fund worldwide mission efforts
through the PC(USA). You can even designate whether you wish to support
current missionaries or fund new mission positions.
There is no better time
than right now to give to missions, and here's how: Dig deep down and
write a generous check to the PC(USA) clearly marked "for worldwide
missions." Mail it to the Joining Hearts and Hands Campaign,
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Individual Remittance Processing, P.O. Box
6437000, Pittsburgh, PA 15264, and please indicate account number
MI900100 on your check."
Secondly, in a letter
received this week, the GA Moderator wrote:
Hi Friends!
Please join me in prayer for an important meeting that will happen next
week. At the last General Assembly the Assembly instructed the Moderator
to call a consultation on the subject of the PC(USA) international
mission work. This consultation is about helping us really get hold of
what is happening in international mission among our partners and all the
mission groups now operating in any kind of relationship to the PC(USA).
This meeting taking place in Dallas Texas will include Louisville staff
as well as representatives from partner churches overseas,
representatives from various validated mission organizations, immigrant
ministry pastors, various mission network representatives, Presbyterian
Women, mission professors from PC(USA) seminaries, and others.
Please hold this meeting
in prayer as we are in a season of amazing opportunity for mission around
the world and also immense challenge as we move into a mission climate
that is very different in many ways than before. Please pray that we will
be open to all God wants to give us in these meetings and in our efforts
to work alongside our Lord all over the world.
Grace and peace,
Joan S. Gray
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