The Synod of Lakes and Prairies met April 26-28 in Farmington, MN.  To see what took place, please go here.

The Environmental Stewardship Task Force encourages churches in the Presbytery to make use of a new, 2-part adult education or retreat study. This free power point presentation is a detailed and interesting review of 4 environmental actions that came out of our 2008 General Assembly. It is your chance to spark discussion of the issues and a wonderful way to let your church members know what they are being called to do.  There will be a great opportunity to get an overview of the presentation on Tuesday, May 12 at 2:30 at First Presbyterian in Red Wing at our PrePresbytery program. We hope someone from your church can attend, look it over and pick up our hand-outs.  If you have any questions, please e-mail Carole Rust. larry-carole-rust@msn.com .

Today, May 1 is the day that Presbyterian Bloggers come together to write about poverty.  A call was made out to people accross the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area to send your thoughts on this issue.  We have two personsthat have either sent or wrote about poverty on a separate blog.  We wanted to share those two essays.

The first is from Kristine Holmgren, an Hororably Retired Pastor.  She wrote her essay for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in early April.  You can read her essay in full by click on this link.

The second essay is from Paul Moore, the organizing pastor of Chain of Lakes New Church Development in Lino Lakes, MN.  He wrote his thoughts on his Chain Link blog.