If you haven’t yet seen it, ask your Pastor or Mission Committee Chair for the Presbytery’s Mission 2008 presentation. Each congregation was given two copies at the February meeting of the Presbytery. Not only will you find pictures and statistics for every single local mission grant recipient from 2007, you’ll also see the projects that our Genesis Fund has supported over the last two years.

Most importantly, you’ll find the application form for the 2009 grant cycle. The deadline is May 31st and it will be here before you know it. While I STRONGLY encourage you to view the CD you can, by clicking here, download the application.

As you know, Winnebago Presbytery has an ongoing partnership with the Presbytery of Uraba in Colombia.

We recently discovered that the Presbyterian Church in Colombia has updated their web site which you can find here.   (It is also linked on our side bar under links of interest.)  From the new site you can link to the Colegio Americano de Barranquilla and the Universidad Reformada in Barranquilla where Alice Winters teaches.  You can also link to each of the  presbyteries in Colombia including Uraba.  Representatives from Winnebago Presbytery have visited both schools and another trip is being planned for later this year.

The purpose of the trip later this year is for the Presbyteries of Uraba and Winnebago to jointly explore and study environmental and human rights issues. Anyone interested in participating needs to contact the Presbytery office no later than April 1.