WAYS TO HELP IN HAITI
The council decided that the offering at our February Presbytery meeting should be devoted to this cause (see letter), however it also wanted to urge both individuals and congregations to consider special gifts to PDA. You may send PDA Offerings from your congregation through the Presbytery office, please clearly mark checks or transmittal forms for "PDA-Haiti" or DR000064. For information, visit the PDA Web site.
REFORMED AND REFORMING:
NURTURING A PRESBYTERIAN
IDENTITY
IN OUR CONGREGATIONS
A
workshop for Pastors and Commissioned Lay Pastors
(Presbyterian and otherwise) serving Presbyterian
congregations will be held on April 18-19, 2010 at the
Maryvale Spiritual Life Center in Valley City,
ND.
The goal is to provide a high
quality training and support experience for pastors and
commissioned lay pastors serving churches on the Great
Plains that seek to strengthen their identity as
congregations in the Reformed/Presbyterian Family. To
accomplish this the workshop will focus on two areas:
The keynote speaker will be
Dr. Gary Neal Hansen is an ordained
minister in the PC(USA), currently serving as Assistant
Professor of Church History at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. Prior to
receiving his PhD from Princeton in 1998, Dr. Hansen served
for five years as the redevelopment pastor of a small church
in New Jersey. He has been on the Dubuque faculty since
1999, teaching courses in topics such as “Presbyterian
History and Confessions,” “Worship in the Reformed
Tradition,” and “The Theology of John Calvin.”
The cost is $60 which
includes: Sunday evening meal, overnight lodging, all Monday
meals and a copy, to be sent to participants upon
registration, of Donald McKim’s Presbyterian Questions:
Presbyterian Answers.) For brochure, click here. If you have additional questions, please contact the Presbytery office at 701-772-0783 or email pnpoffice@gmail.com. |



