2009 seems like a long way off, but it’s time to think about ordering your copies of the Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study.  Order forms have arrived in local congregations.  Discounts begin with an order of 25, but what if you only want 1 or 6 copies?  Do you need to order them at the full price ?  No!

The Presbytery Office will once again submit a bulk order.  Since we will be ordering 100 or more, we can purchase them for $5.00 per copy, including some of the postage costs.  The office pays the balance of the postage.  What a deal! 

We need to order during the month of August so I’ve set a deadline of August 1 to receive orders from congregations and individuals who will be ordering less than 100 copies.  The order forms are available on the Forms & Policies page of this website.  Click here.

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.

Have you seen it? At the February meeting of the Presbytery, the Resource and Program Coordinating Team showed a presentation highlighting many of our local mission projects.

Did you know that more than half of the program budget of the presbytery is used to provide grants to agencies and groups in our communities that feed the hungry and provide clothes, education and other services to those who need them?

Each church received TWO copies of the CD. One for the Mission Committee and one for the Pastoral staff. If you haven’t seen it - ASK! Find out where your mission dollars are going.

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.

March 1, 2008

To Our Friends of the Presbytery of Winnebago -

Thank you so much for you recent gift of $2500.00, dated December 12, 2007 towards our Hands of Christ Ministry.  We thank you for your generous support as we look forward to another wonderful year of serving the deaf community of North Eastern Wisconsin.

Shalom:

Alice Riemee McKee, Hands of Christ Board Member

More information about Hands of Christ can be found here.