Several months ago, a small group of our pastors and youth leaders started visualizing an emerging church worship gathering taking place in Trinity Presbytery.  They talked about the possibilities and how the Christian message would be expressed to appeal to unchurched people who may have alternative views on life or religion.  Their efforts have resulted in The Broken Church, an experiment in presenting the truth of God's love in Jesus Christ in a casual setting that invites all to a relationship with Jesus Christ.  You are invited to explore what our colleagues are envisioning and pray for The Broken Church's first gathering on November 6th.  Visit their website....>>

Calvary Presbyterian Church in Winnsboro will be the venue for the "Equipping the Saints" seminar.  This event will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2008 and will address the issues of attracting (and keeping!) people between the ages of 18 and 45 years old.  Leading the seminar will be Rev. Dr. Alan Arnold, General Presbyter and Stated Clerk of Trinity Presbytery and Rev. Dr. Mark Lomax, Pastor of the First African Presbyterian Church of Lithonia, Georgia.  This seminar is sponsored by the African American Caucus of the Racial Ethic Concerns Committee.  For more information, please click here. 

Saturday, November 15, 2008 is the annual Youth Day at Presbyterian College.  Churches are encouraged to bring their youth groups for a great day of energizers, a tail-gating picnic and seats to watch the Blue Hose trounce Coastal Carolina!  During the game, the Outstanding Youth Leader Award will be presented.  Click here to visit PC's website for the schedule of events and registration.This is an excellent opportunity to introduce your young people to Presbyterian College and a great day for a good football game!

Members of 12 churches in our Presbytery gathered for the Over Fifty Adult Retreat at Camp Fellowship last week.  Doug Vaughn led the Bible study, and worship leaders were Alice Ridgill and Danny Murphy.  I. Lehr Brisbin shared his wealth of knowledge about our environment.  He brought baby alligators and a beautiful rat snake!  Service projects were a big part of our time as well, making items for overseas mission.  This year, we collected items to make hygiene kits to send to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.  The group assembled 128 kits with left over supplies that will be sent to various mission projects near home and abroad.   In addition, we received over $200.00 in donations to help defray cost of shipping and buy needed supplies. A special thank you to all the churches that helped to make this service project a great success!   
With Joy & Thanksgiving,
Nora Hope, Interim Associate for Education & Leadership 

 

 

The Department of Consumer Affairs, Shred 360 and Carolina Records and Information Management are holding a shredding day for people.  On Thursday, October 30th there will be two locations where you can bring a maximum of two boxes of documents, receipts, cancelled checks, etc. for shredding.  The locations and times are the Dept. of Consumer Affairs,  on 3600 Forest Drive, and at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 6952 St. Andrews Rd. from 8:00 a.m. to noon and 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (times are for both locations).

Trinity Presbytery's website is getting a NEW LOOK!  Stay tuned...

Penny and Alan Arnold would like to thank everyone for their prayers during the surgery on Penny's daughter, Rebecca Berk.  Rebecca recently underwent very serious surgery.  It was touch and go at times, but the doctors were able to correct the problem.  Rebecca and her family live in San Francisco.  She continues to regain her strength and looks forward to a full recovery.  Penny related that the prayers were certainly felt and very much appreciated.

YAM-Jam is an event for people seeking creative ways to be in ministry with young adults and college students in the PCUSA, and is sponsored by PACHEM and the Office of Collegiate Ministries, PC(USA). The classic problem facing young adult ministry in the PCUSA is feeling isolated from the rest of the denomination. As our church adjusts to issues of culture and structural changes, YAM-Jam is a way to bring those who care about young adults together to share, learn, worship, and play. To do that successfully, YAM-Jam needs to include a variety of people-you included!  Those folks who work with youth - whether it is in churches, colleges, young adult groups - will benefit tremendously from this event.  So plan now to attend May 27-30, 2009 at Austin Presbyterian Seminary and be sure to visit their website....>>>


 

What a wild ride the market has been!  If you are one of those that have their retirement savings in the Board of Pensions, you may be wondering how safe are your investments?  Robert W. Maggs, Jr., President and CEO has written a letter to address those issues.  Read more...>>>

 

The Presbytery meeting was privileged to be a part of the Chartering of New Kirk Presbyterian NCD.  More than 40 charter members accompanied Rev. Scott Bowerman to the meeting to request that they become a full-fledged church.  It was a very emotional part of the meeting with much joy, smiles, hugs and tears.  This coming Sunday (October 19th) everyone is invited to come to Sandlapper Elementary School at 1001 Longtown Road in NE Columbia at 4:00 p.m.to witness the Chartering of the Congregation and the installation of Scott Bowerman as the first Pastor.  If it is anything like what was experienced at the presbytery meeting, then you will want to be a part of it.  Truly, the Holy Spirit was present then, and surely will be, as this new congregation begins their life as New Kirk Presbyterian CHURCH!  Thanks be to God!

 

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