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Board of Pensions Benefits Overview
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 What
are my benefits with the Board of Pensions? How does the Medical Plan
work? How much money does it cost me? Will I really get a pension when I
retire? How is it calculated?
These questions and many more will be answered at a BENEFITS OVERVIEW of
the BOARD OF PENSIONS of the PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA). This gathering
will be held on Wednesday, February 20, at 12:00 noon at Westminster
Presbyterian Church, 2310 Augusta Road, Greenville, S.C. Lunch is
provided (free), but you must reserve a spot. Call Sandy Sharpe at 288-
5574 to make your reservation. Plan members and their spouses are
encouraged to attend. Clark Simmons, our regional representative, will
lead the overview.
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Recently Added to the Resource Center
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 Hearing
a Film, Seeing a Sermon: Preaching and Popular Movies by Timothy B. Cargal
Pastors are constantly in search of ways to connect to their parishioners
through their sermons, and one of the most effective ways to do this is
through the use of contemporary movies. New to our Resource Center is
this book that teaches pastors some basics of interpreting films so that
they can integrate insights about popular films into their preaching.
This book and many others are available in the presbytery office resource
center. For detailed instructions on how you can search the Foothills
Presbytery Resource Center catalog online, click below.
Resource Center
Catalog Online
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Confirmation Retreats
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Reminder of two upcoming
confirmation retreats offered by the Outdoor Ministries Board of
Foothills and Trinity Presbyteries. These retreats will be held at Camp
Fellowship February 22-24 and March 7-9. Spaces usually fill up quickly,
so sign up soon. A brochure may be downloaded at the link below.
2008
Confirmation Retreats
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Officer Development Event
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Restoring Spiritual
Vibrancy to our Churches is the theme of this year's Officer Development Event. It
will be held February 23 from 9:00 until 2:45 at St. Giles Presbyterian
Church in Greenville. To obtain a brochure, click below or call the
presbytery office. We will be glad to mail a brochure to you. You don't
want to miss this training for all officers and other members of your
church.
Officer
Development Event
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Can You Hear Me, God?
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Foothills Presbytery
presents.......Senior High Retreat at Montreat Conference Center March
7-9, 2008. Join with Senior Highs from all over the presbytery for this
fun event. Each church should send in all registrations and one check -
Remember the deadline for registrations is February 6. We need to hear
from you by then to confirm housing at Montreat and to be sure that
everybody receives a T-shirt. Get all of your registrations in by that
date! Click below to download a brochure.
Senior High
Retreat
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Opportunities in the Presbytery
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Positions:
Choral leader needed at First Simpsonville Church. Part-time position.
Call Jim Caprell at 963-8854.
Youth Director needed at St. Giles Church in Greenville. Call Matt
Matthews at 244-4887.
Workers needed to be a part of a mission trip to the Gulf with John Knox
Church. Dates are March 30 - April 4. Call Rick Turner if you are willing
to be a part of this recovery effort. Phone number is 346-0707 or email datwet3@yahoo.com.
Summer Camp Schedule is online at www.bucandfellowship.org.
Online registration will be available February 1. Registration forms may
be printed off of this website, completed, and mailed in.
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Joys and Concerns
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 The
Outdoor Ministries Board of Foothills and Trinity Presbyteries is very
excited and pleased to announce that the Rev. Kevin Cartee has been
called to be the new Outdoor Ministries Director for Camp Buc and Camp
Fellowship. Kevin is currently Associate Pastor at Eastminster
Presbyterian Church in Columbia and will assume his new duties in
February. We welcome him to this new position and look forward to working
with him. Further details about how to contact Kevin will be available
soon.
We rejoice also with
Jonathan Sherrod, our past Outdoor Ministries Director, on his call to
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Henderson, N.C.
Our condolences are expressed to the family of the late Rev. Joe Wagner.
Rev. Wagner passed away in early January. He was a resident of
Spartanburg and is survived by his wife Margaret.
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Ghana Pastoral Mission Trip
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Are you interested in
inter-national exchanges? Do you think people of other cultures are
fascinating? Would you like to share your Christian faith with people
from other countries? If you answered yes to these questions, you might
be interested in participating in the upcoming trip to Ghana, West Africa.
In 1985 the Presbytery of
the Piedmont, now Foothills Presbytery, entered into a partnership
agreement with Kwahu Presbytery in Ghana to provide financial aid for
medical services through Donkorkrom Clinic, which was later upgraded to a
small hospital. The Partnership also acts as a conduit to allow
Christians from both cultures the opportunity to broaden their
understanding of the world church. Now the Partnership has expanded its
reach beyond the hospital to more programs of evangelism and education, spreading
the good news of Jesus Christ to more Ghanaians.
Every other year we visit
our partners in Ghana, and in alternate years we host visitors from
Ghana. This past fall we welcomed Mary, Alex, Seth and Emmanuel from
Ghana, and they spoke throughout the presbytery about the Presbyterian
Church in Ghana. Mary spoke about the work of the Presbyterian Women and
brought jewelry that they had made to sell here. The money from the
jewelry supports the work of the Presbyterian Women.
In September of this year
twelve people from Foothills Presbytery will travel to Ghana to visit
with the folks in Kwahu Presbytery. The dates of the trip are September
26 through October 10, and the approximate cost is $2,000. If you are
interested in being a part of this mission trip, click below to download
an application form. The deadline for returning applications with a $250
deposit is March 1, 2008. If you have questions about the trip, you may
call the presbytery office.
Foothills/Kwahu
Partnership Trip Application
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