The 218th General Assembly will take place this summer June 21-28 in San Jose CA. As you may know there are four candidates for moderator this year. More information can be found about each of the candidates here. Additional information can be found at each candidate’s web site.

Carl Mazza
Bill Teng
Roger Shoemaker
Bruce Reyes-Chow

The commissioners from Winnebago Presbytery are:

CLP Jess Wakefield
Elder Kay Smith
Rev. Richard Moore
Rev. Susan Phillips

Youth Advisory Delegate Meghan Keller

Information about GA will be available here and during the assembly it will be available on the pcusa.org site.

WHAT: It’s time for the second annual SPRING THING. Join your Presbytery friends on an overnight trip to Madison!

WHEN: Friday April 11-Saturday April 12

WHO: This event is for all youth ages 6th through 12th grade.

HOW MUCH:The cost will be $20.

• Bond on the bus! A bus will pick up youth/chaperones at 6pm in Appleton and 7pm in Stevens Point
• Spend the night at Pres-House…the Presbyterian presence on the University of Wisconsin campus. Play and worship together.
• Shop on State Street! Spend Saturday afternoon shopping on State Street or having a campus tour, followed by a pizza dinner, then return home around 9pm.
• Participate in a Mission Project…as a group.

Publicity Flyer HERE. Registration form HERE ??’s: contact Sarah Moore-Nokes at sarah [at]winnebagopresbytery.org

POAMN is the Presbyterian Older Adult Ministries Network, a network of persons who are engaged in ministry with older adults. These people work in presbyteries and synods, they are leaders in congregations, and some serve in specialized ministries such as chaplains in care facilities and presbytery staff who are involved with older adult ministry committees. POAMN is related to the Congregational Ministries Division, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).  Learn more about the network here.

“Leaving a Living Legacy” is the theme for the  2008 annual conference scheduled April 22-25, 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Registration Brochure here.  Partial scholarships are available from POAMN for first time attendees.  See brochure for details.

Who should you consider attending?

Enjoy this opportunity to interact with other professionals and lay people working in Older Adult Ministry all across the country. You’ll go away feeling renewed, refreshed and motivated as you learn to leave a living legacy for your family, your church, your community and your world! This conference is geared for leaders in the church, lay people with a heart for ministry to and with Older Adults, as well as community and church members who are interested in leaving a living legacy.

The Triennium staff have made available all sorts of resources used at last summer’s gathering.  Looking for energizers?  They’re HERE - as well as liturgies, song lists and dvd order forms.

Join with others on a spiritual journey toward wholeness and peace, supported by the spiritual wisdoms of the traditions
as you tailor your own “practice” along the way!

Living Waters Contemplative Life Center - an outreach to unchurched, dischurched and formerly churched peoples of any and many faith traditions is offering Immersion - an experience of personal spiritual transformation - April - November 2008.

A collaborative ministry of Spirations Institute and Living Water Contemplative Life Center in Milwaukee, WI, Immersion is a nine-month experience in spiritual transformation. Beginning in April 2008, we will gather for five Friday evening through Saturday evening “retreats” with a diverse group of men and women who seek to deepen their faith and spiritual practices. Through avenues such a worship, ritual, spiritual direction, study, song, laughter and play we explore our God breaking forth in us and through us into the world. Cost is based on a sliding fee scale. Co-facilitated by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan and Rev. Karen Hagen.

Self-Sliding Scale Fee: $80-$250 per gathering
It is the mission of Living Waters and Spirations that all be able to attend this unique, in-depth formation program. Please adjust this self-sliding scale to reflect your personal ability to pay as well as your mutual participation in our mission….knowing your giving generously affords the opportunity for someone else less able to pay “this” month to attend. Perhaps that someone may be you “next” month. Your giving also offers you the opportunity to live into contemplative justice assuring our leadership just wages in a world that often undermines the dignity of work. Please pray and consider your offering. We accept credit card payment as well as a payment plan. Fees collected monthly.

Dates of Gatherings 2008:
April 4-5, June 27-28, August 22-23, October 3-4, November 14-15

Trish is a spiritual director, internationally recognized musician, and trainer of spiritual directors. Her interfaith ministry is primarily focused on healing and wholeness with women and children.

Karen serves as pastor at Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee, WI whose main mission is Living Waters Contemplative Life Center’s offering spiritual formation opportunities to all people. A Threshold Singer certified as a spiritual director and Reiki Master, Karen is also involved in contemplative justice ministries within the interfaith communities of Milwaukee and Wisconsin. Karen is published in the PCUSA quarterly publication, “Hungry Hearts”.

There are limited overnight accommodations at Tippe for a $15 fee. We will also be glad to help arrange shared-expense hotels or participant hosted overnights for those traveling..

For more information: www.spirations.com and www.tippechurch.org. Or, call 414-481-4648.

2008 Tentative Immersion Gatherings:

Knowing Ourselves, Meeting Each Other, Opening To God

Holistic Spirituality
…Knowing God With Our Whole Selves

Soul Work
…Family Systems From A Soul Perspective

Traditions of Abraham…
A Look At The Spirituality Of Judaism, Islam, & Christianity

EMERGENCE…
Shaping And Reshaping Our Own Spirituality