FIRST MONDAY

May, 2005 First Monday is a monthly mailing to Church Professionals in The Miami Presbytery from the Presbytery Staff including information of events and news of interest as submitted by appropriate Presbytery entities. Publication of such information does not imply presbytery endorsement of the views and opinions expressed or implied. This month we have included: 1. Lisa Hess Equipping the Saints Program Brochure 2. News and Reviews from the Resource Center 3. The May Calendar. 4. The Prayer List, which now includes the first Sunday of the next month at

popular request. 5. Presbytery News – What’s Happening Around The Presbytery. 6. First Monday Feedback Questionnaire – Please take a moment to fill out and

return the questionnaire so we can get the best product out possible. Please let the Miami Presbytery office know if you would like to switch to e-notification of the First Monday posting to the Presbytery web site!

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Self-Care for Leaders

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Practical Theology The Rev Bill K

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Encountering the Scripture: Can

Violence Ever Be Redemptive?

Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005

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present “Equipping the Saints”

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45069 513-777-6555

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orship, work, play, and rest instituted by

God for our care. T

his retreat day offers clergy and lay participants an understanding of S

abbath-keeping as those intentional "m

oments-hours-days"

which actually form

in us God's rhythm

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8:30 – Registration, Finger foods

9:00-3:30 – Program

Lunch will be provided.

Due to the nature of the presentation,

the schedule is open.

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$120 – All others

$150 – Bring a group of 3 or more from

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person cost, for handling.

Please register by Thursday, May 19

th. Any

questions after that should be emailed to

Jackie.nowak@

miam

ipresbytery.org.

For more inform

ation, contact registrar. M

arion Montefiore

Presbytery of Cincinnati 1323 M

yrtle Avenue

Cincinnati, OH

45206-1708 (888) 221-4238 Fax (513) 221-6601 E

mail: office@

presbyteryofcincinnati.org

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ake checks payable to the Presbytery of C

incinnati. Clip and mail, fax, or call to register. Please enclose check w

ith registration or m

ail prior to the seminar. Registration is

complete w

hen payment is received.

Registrar: Marion M

ontefiore Presbytery of Cincinnati

1323 Myrtle A

venue Cincinnati, O

H 45206-1708

(888) 221-4238 Fax (513) 221-6601 E

mail: office@

presbyteryofcincinnati.org

News and Views from MacRead and MacView

May 2005

T h e M i a m i P r e s b y t e r y

R e s o u r c e C e n t e r

The Miami Presbytery Resource Center

is open every Tuesday,

Wednesday, and Thursday

from 9:30 a.m.—4:00 p.m.

You are welcome to visit us and browse

during regular hours or call us at

258-8118 (1-800-270-8118

within Miami Presbytery) with your

questions or requests. If you are unable to visit us during these

times, we will be happy to mail resources or

arrange for you to get them in another way.

The Miami Presbytery Resource Center is located at 1541 South Smithville Road

Dayton, Ohio 45410-3242

937-258-8118 1-800-270-8118

www.miamipresbytery.org

Resource Center Staff: Terry Biers

Pat McLaughlin Ruth Price

A digest of some new or timely resources and information that might be of interest to church professionals and their congregations.

First Monday Edition

May 2005

Next Miami Presbytery Meeting June 14

At Troy: First Resource Center Display:

The Resource Center receives regular email news information from the National Council of Churches which we have forwarded on to our office manager, Tom Oxley, to for-ward on to all our churches. How-ever, you and your church can get on the National Council of Churches email list by sending an email to join-churchnet@list.ncccusa.org.Request that your address(es) be added to their data base. You may check their website any time at www.councilofchurches.org.

On the National Council of Churches website...

Fierce Good-Bye

… a documentary scheduled to air on the Hallmark Channel May 15 at noon. It will be released on May 22 to NBC-TV stations as a special presentation of the National Council of Churches USA. Check your local listings as they may choose to air this at a different time. This docu-mentary is produced by Mennonite Media in cooperation with Faith & Values Media.

FYI...We have added to our equipment inventory! We now have, available for loan, a DVD player and a single unit TV/DVD player.

Religions of the World: Buddhism, Judaism, Native American Spirituality,

Roman Catholic Christianity, Protestant Christianity

...this video series will provide students with insights into the various beliefs, customs, and traditions of the world’s religions. Each video comes with a Teacher’s Guide that includes an historical time line, vocabulary words, discussion ideas for pre-viewing, a series of focus questions for viewing, and follow-up discussion questions and activities, plus Internet resources. Each video is 50 minutes in length—all narrated by Ben Kingsley.

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Use the Resource Center’s on-line catalog to search for resources. It’s on the presbytery’s website:

(www.miamipresbytery.org). Click on Resource Center and then on-line catalog/webrary. Search by title, subject, or author.

E-mail the Resource Center at

resource.center@miamipresbytery.org

Looking Ahead… May 1—Older Adult Sunday May 5—National Day of Prayer May 8—Mother’s Day; Christian Family Week Begins May 10—Newsletter deadline; submit articles on or before this date May 15—Pentecost May 29—Presbyterian Heritage Sunday June 5—Gifts of Women Sunday June 14—Presbytery meeting (Troy) June 19—Father’s Day; Men of the Church

Let us help with your planning!

Those churches using the denomination’s VBS curriculum materials may want to visit www.pcusa.org/webelieve/vbs for free downloadable materials to enhance this summer's experience. You will find

invitations, boarding passes, postcards, etc., to create interest and promote this year’s summer exploration. Iron-on patches and blow-up globes can be pur-chased separately for the "Around the World in Five Days" theme. We hope these "extras" will be creative tools for churches using our We Believe VBS.

The denomination’s new confirmation curricula is available to order for fall 2005, but it has NOT YET completed printing! As soon as it is available in the Resource Center, you will read it in an edition of First Monday. We do have

a sample. These materials are formatted the same as the four survey courses for younger youth in the We Believe curricu-lum. To reserve your copy or request a sample package, call (800) 524-2612. Ask for the following:

Curricula: item #623007 Sample: item #623007S

Now in… Summer curriculum materials from…

...including… the Young Adult Bible Study series, Jesus and the Hip-Hop Generation and the Adult Book study, The Holy Spirit, by Mateen Elass.

Happy Baptism Day by Judy Jolly

...is a delightful, gentle story for children about Anna Lois who remembers everything that has made her baptism day and the day before it special. If you are using this for your particular church, note that the story in-cludes the gift of a candle and the phrase altar rail.

Reflecting with God: Connecting Faith and Daily

Life in Small Groups by Abigail Johnson

… is an excellent adult study that not only helps participants discern the presence of God in their daily lives, but it offers great, practical ideas and en-couragement to lay leaders who may be leading a group for the first time!

When Better Isn’t Enough: Evaluation Tools for the 21st Century

by Jill Hudson ...offers practical, understandable tools for evaluating the effectiveness of church leader-ship in an era when the world has changed considerably while the church has not!

Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism edited by Ron Rosenbaum,

...is a collection of powerful essays about the origin and nature of the new anti-Semitism. Essays deal with such questions as the following: Why now? What is or isn’t new? Is A Second Holocaust possible, this time in the Middle East? How does Anti-Semitism differ from anti-Zionism?

Thirst: God and the Alcoholic

Experience by James B. Nelson

...is the author’s personal and theological reflection on alcohol addiction and recovery.

The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew

by Barbara Brown Taylor ...includes fifteen of Taylor’s sermons.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 Office Workday @ Kirkmont—office closed 9:00 Nominating

3 10:00 Spiritual Support Group 2:00 Mission In-terpretation 4:00 Trustees

4 5 7:00 Agenda @ Bob Evans 4:30 Discernment Group

6 7 Women’s Retreat

8 9 New Pastors & staff members day at Kirkmont Cen-ter

10 8:30 NE Church Professionals @ West Liberty 10:00 PW Coordi-nating Council 3:30 Polity

11 9:00 Interims @ Margaret Haney’s Home 12:30 NW Church Professionals @ El Camino, Greenville

12 7:00 Council 9:00 Docket 12:00 Staff Meet-ing 3:00 Staff Services

13 14

15 16 17 1:00 Global Mis-sion 1:00 Congrega-tional Develop-ment

18 10:30 Congrega-tional Outreach @ Dayton: Westmin-ster 2:00 OAM WG

19 9:30 COPM 12:00 Educator Support Group @ Jeanne McIver’s Home

20 21

22 23 Equipping the Saints Event @ West Chester: Crestview 4:00 SDOP 5:30 PYC

24 3:00 Hispanic Ministry

25 12:00 Social Jus-tice

26 11:30 SW Church Professionals @ Middletown Ap-plebees

27 28

29 30 Memorial Day Observed—Office Closed

31 4:00 COM

May 2005

MIAMI PRESBYTERY PRAYER LIST

May, 2005

1 May Blue Ball United Presbyterian Church located at 6901 Roosevelt Avenue, Franklin; 70 member congregation with Pastor Robert E. Clark.

And please remember the Hispanic Ministry program at Sidney and

Xenia Memorial Churches in your prayers. 8 May Presbyterian Church of New Paris located at 6875 US

Rt 40, New Paris; 33 member congregation with Pastor Jerry Westfall. And please remember the Congregational Outreach Committee in

your prayers. 15 May First Presbyterian Church located at 1130 Highview Drive,

Fairborn; 326 member congregation with Pastor William Anderson. And please remember the Mission Interpretation Committee in your

prayers. 22 May Westminster Presbyterian Church located at 990 Old

Springfield Pike, Xenia; 307 member congregation with Pastor Brian Maguire.

And please remember the Discipleship and Spiritual Formation Team

in your prayers. 29 May Westwood Presbyterian Church located at 1068

Stahlheber Road, Hamilton; 131 member congregation with Pastor Joshua Long.

And please remember Ministry with Older Adults Team in your

prayers.

3 June First United Presbyterian Church located at 215 West Columbus Street, West Liberty; 56 member congregation with Pastor Randy Terry.

And please remember the new moderator of the Miami Presbytery in

your prayers.

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First Monday Job Corner Drop us a line if there is a job opening you need to fill at your church (and please let us know if you want it continued in future months).

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Covenant Gathering (Synod School) is…held at the College of Wooster in Wooster, OH, for adults of all ages, for teens & children with accompanying parents or sponsors, June 26 thru July 2, 2005. Want more information? Check at your church for brochures, or contact the Synod of the Covenant office at 800-848-1030 or j.chapman@synodofthecovenant.org. Watch the Synod Website www.synodofthecovenant.org for 2005 information available soon! (A full copy of a bulletin insert was sent to our full pastor e-list. If you didn’t get one, please email tom.oxley@miamipresbytery.org and one will be forwarded to you.)

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PREACHING and LIVING THE SERMON with Sacred Storytelling: Festival of Homiletics, May 16-20, 2005 Fourth Presbyterian Church on Michigan Avenue in Chicago and St James Cathedral. Liturgical, Traditional, Emergent-Contemporary, Blended, Gospel, and Jazz Worship Music for Festival of Homiletics. See www.festivalofhomiletics.com for more details.

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Montreat Conference Center Marketing Team Earns Top Award (Montreat, NC) – On January 29, 2005, at the 38th annual PICA Awards, the “Best of Category” award for sales campaigns was presented to Daniels Graphics for “Montreat 2005.” The entry featured a series of printed materials promoting Montreat Conference Center. PICA Awards are recognized as the symbol of print media excellence throughout the Carolinas. This year’s competition, which included 920 entries from 75 printing companies, was judged by three out-of-state industry experts. Award designations included first place “Best of Category,” second place “Special Judges’ Award,” and an honorable mention “Award of Excellence.” “This is quite an honor,” said Montreat Conference Center president George F. Barber, III, at a recent luncheon hosted by Daniels Graphics in honor of the achievement. “The marketing team here at the conference center, combined with a great team of designers at Daniels Graphics, worked to create a series of pieces that would really capture the essence of this place – its beauty, the high caliber of our programs, the hospitality visitors enjoy. The end result has been an effective, attractive campaign in which we can all take pride.” Owner and CEO of Daniels Graphics, James Daniels, noted that the competition, as it always is with the PICA Awards, was keen this year. The judges deliberated for two days before decisions were finalized. “Being ‘Best of Category’ is not to be taken lightly,” Daniels said. “I’ve seen plenty of times when no one qualified in a particular category, so they simply didn’t give the award that year. Winning really means something.” Merri Bass, Vice President for Program Development and Marketing at Montreat Conference Center, agreed. “A PICA Award signifies excellence. Naturally, we’re extremely proud of what the conference center and Daniels Graphics have accomplished together.” But she went on to add that winning this year raises the bar for future years and future projects. “Our goal now,” Bass said, “is to see a couple of these awards added to our collection every year.”

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Pentecost Offering for Children at Risk, Youth and Young Adults, Sunday, May 15th – Now is the time to learn about the offering by reviewing the offering packet; order free promotional materials by calling 1-800-524-2612; read the stories about the people the offering serves; publicize how your congregation’s 40 percent will be used; receive the Pentecost Offering on May 15th. For further information, visit www.pcusa.org/pentecost, or call us at 1-888-728-7228, ext. 5121.

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Presbyterian Publishing Corporation to unveil Revised Worship Planner CD at National Pastors Retreat – The Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, the official denominational publisher of the PC (USA), is revising its popular Presbyterian Worship Planner CD in time for it to be available at the National Pastors Retreat at the Snowbird Resort in Utah (brochures for the retreat are available at the Presbytery office). The new comprehensive edition provides a searchable library of electronic worship resources that includes the Book of Common Worship (formatted to match the print edition), Handbook for the Revised Common Lectionary, NRSV Bible, Book of Confessions, and Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV (Years A, B and C) and much more. The Presbyterian Worship Planner, Version 2.0, will be available for only $149.95. Registered users of Version 1.0 (who returned the Software Information Card to PPC) can upgrade to Version 2.0 for only $74.95. Registered users should call PPC Customer Service at 1-800-227-2872 to receive the special price. To purchase the Planner, call 1-800-227-2872, or visit the PPC Web Site at www.ppcpub.com, or faxing 1-800-541-5113. Individuals and churches can also order the planner CD at any Cokesbury store.

First Monday Feedback Questionnaire

Please answer the following questions so we can provide a better monthly information package to our church professionals! Then drop off, fax or mail to Tom at the Presbytery office. Thank you for your assistance!

1. How often do you read the First Monday packet? a. Every month b. Occasionally c. Never d. What is First Monday? 2. If you read First Monday, which parts do you find of value to your ministry? (Circle all that apply)

a. News and Reviews b. Prayer List c. Presbytery Calendar d. Job Listings e. What’s Happening in the Presbytery f. I don’t use First Monday in my Ministry g. Other_____________________________________________________________ 3. Do you share First Monday with other members of your staff? (Circle all that apply) a. The secretary uses it for the bulletin. b. The educators use it for upcoming training opportunities. c. No, I read it over and throw it out. d. I put it on the bulletin board to share with the congregation. e. Other_____________________________________________________________ 4. If there were a subject that you would like to see added that would make First Monday more

valuable to you, what would that be? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 5. How could First Monday be more useful for you and the ministries of your congregation? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________