August 2009
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New Job Postings Online
Here are the latest job postings. You can look at other openings by going to: http://www.ptcaweb.org/RESOURCES/openpositions.htm.
Director of Senior High Youth Ministries (Temporary Part-time position) First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater - Lead and nurture Senior High Youth of First Presbyterian Church of Stillwater toward Christian maturity and service, integrating these ministries into the life of the church. E-mail [...]
Looking for 40 and Under Members of PTCA to take Survey
How is the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area doing when it comes to communications? What can be improved? What’s missing? Please take part of in the 2009 Communications Survey and let your voice be heard. Deadline for the survey is the close of business on Thursday, August 27.
We would especially like to hear from [...]
Stats for the PTCA
The Presbytery for the Twin Cities Area showed slight losses in 2008. The Presbytery has 69 congregations with a total of 25,058 members. The median size of a congregation is 170. The PTCA lost 300 members in 2008 which translated to a 1.2% loss compared to 2007.
Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, MN is listed as [...]
Open Positions- August 25, 2009
For more information on the positions listed below, please go the PTCA website at http://www.ptcaweb.org/RESOURCES/openpositions.htm .
Interim Pastor- Community Presbyterian, Plainview
Nursery Attendant, Plymouth Presbyterian, Plymouth
Pastor, Zion United Church of Christ, LeSeur
Director of Music, Presbyterian Church of the Way, Shoreview
Church Business Administrator, North Como Presbyterian Church, Roseville
Church Administrative Assistant, Peace Presbyterian Church, St. Louis Park
Youth Ministries [...]
Regarding Lifestyle Evangelism
From Ray Jones:
I love the church! But I struggle with what we’ve done to the church. The church has to be more than a social club. Yes, church is community, but it is also so much more. The church has to be more than the place in which we learn about good behavior. Of [...]
Events Calendar for August 25, 2009
Do you have an event you’d like to publicize? Please send it to Dennis Sanders at communications@ptcaweb.org .
Presbybriefs – August 25, 2009
Welcome to Presbybriefs, where we find out what is going on congregations in the PTCA, the presbytery and the wider church. Here are the stories for August 25.
Macalester LEEDs the Way : When Macalester College decided to invest in a new home for the Institute for Global Citizenship (IGC), a program to educate and engage [...]
Does the Church Have Anything to Say About Real Life?
The following post is from Matthew Robbins-Ghormley, pastor of Randolph Heights Presbyterian Church in St. Paul.
For the last year or so, I’ve been meeting weekly with three other pastors of smaller Presbyterian churches here in the Cities. We get together to read the Bible together, specifically the texts we’ll be preaching, and to talk together [...]
Events Calendar: Week of August 17, 2009
Do you have an event you’d like to publicize? Please send it to Dennis Sanders at communications@ptcaweb.org.
CIA, Torture and Sinful Nature
By admin on August 25, 2009
Note: The following blog post does not necessarily reflect the views of the Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area.
From Neil Craigan:
With the declassification of the report on the interrogation of terror suspects there has been much said about the behavior of some CIA operatives, simulated drowning by waterboarding, simulated executions by threatening with guns and [...]
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