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Education & Congregational Nurture

Mission Presbytery Winter Retreat February 2012

•February 19—21, 2012 Mission Presbytery Winter Retreat
Compassionate Evangelism: Sharing Our Love, Sharing Our Faith
Click here for the brochure and more information.

We need your response before November 28, 2011.

Mission Presbytery joins other presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) who are engaged in innovative outreach programs in order to "Grow Christ's Church Deep and Wide"—a church wide emphasis adopted by the 218th General Assembly (2008) to help congregations grow through evangelism, discipleship, servant hood and diversity. This conference will focus on evangelism.

The ECN [Education & Congregational Nurture] Committee and the Evangelism Sub-Committee of the Church Development Committee have joined together to sponsor a unique opportunity for pastors and interested members of their churches to come together at beautiful Mo-Ranch, February 19—21, 2012, to join Rev. Ray Jones, Coordinator for Evangelism General Assembly Mission Council of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), our keynote speaker, and other church members who will be exploring ways to engage our congregations in God's work in our communities. Ray is not only a dynamic speaker, but also a great facilitator. At this retreat, we will listen together, learn together, and pray together, and worship together.

When conducting Evangelism training, Ray begins with the assumption that people cannot share what they don't have. So, he engages conferees by looking at discipleship, spheres of influence, serving, and how to share our story.

We want to be good stewards of limited funds, in other words, we do not want to lose our deposit that we have already sent to Mo-Ranch but the determining factor is whether or not we get a minimum of 50 people signed up for the conference, by December 2, 2011. That is where we need your involvement. We need you to provide us with the number of individuals in your congregation who will attend this conference. You do not have to send the deposits at this time; we will treat an RSVP for a member as a commitmen. We will need your response before or during the week of November 28, 2011.

Let's get excited about Evangelism!

More ECN Information:

Click here for a 1-page document that contains all ECN Regional Representative Assignments of Churches and Other ECN Support Information

We look forward to assisting you in meeting the education Resources needs of your congregations.

  • ECN Regional Representatives

ECN Regional Representatives have been assigned to each of the six regions to assist congregations in areas of education and congregational nurture. Their contact information is included on the above ECN 1-page document.

  • Other ECN Resources

    Please note that we have included all of the resources provided through ECN on the above 1-page document including:

    • 50+ Contact
    • Lay Leadership Institute / CLP Coordinator
    • Manual of Operation Maintenance for the ECN Division Section [in process; to be completed in time for the June Presbytery meeting]
    • Scholarships
    • Resource Center--located at FPC Mercedes, click here for the Resource Center brochure
    • Educator Gatherings / Care of Educators has moved to COM

  • Resource Center
    (click here for the Resource Center brochure)

The center is housed at First Presbyterian Church, Mercedes, Texas. Presbyterian Women in the valley region will provide volunteer staff for the center and resources will be available on a limited basis. The ECN Division is busy looking at making an online database and posting best practices from congregations throughout Mission Presbytery. If you have any questions about the center or the online database please contact Esther Russell-Hughes Erh424@sbcglobal.net or 956-428-3058 (resource center) or Vi Lee, ECN Chair, at vhl1118@aol.com or 512-992-7519 (online database).

 

 

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