October 18–22, 2010

First Presbyterian Church

Fort Worth, Texas

Sponsored by:

Grace Presbytery & the Office of Church Growth

The 2010 Transformation Conference is an event that will bring together pastors, elders, and other church leaders to talk about, dream about, learn about congregational transformation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Register here.

To learn more, and download a brochure, click here.

The Office of Church Growth is pleased to announce the arrival of our hotly anticipated Congregational Transformation discernment process.  Like the “Starting New Churches” resource for New Church Development, “Starting New Initiatives” is not designed as a “quick fix,” but rather, is a process of prayer, discernment, conversation, and reflection for congregations to decide how they can best minister in their particular context(s)

To download the booklet, click here.

Paper copies of the booklet are available from the Office of Church Growth by calling 1-888-728-7228, ext. 5088 or emailing at meredith.kemp-pappan@pcusa.org.

for Church and Presbytery Teams

November 3-5 2010

Hosted by: Riverside Presbyterian Church

Sterling, VA

Discern the core values and plans for ministry, outreach and leadership for starting a church today.   The “New Church Development Training for Church and Presbytery Teams” event at Riverside Presbyterian Church will focus on the of Starting New Churches resource.

For more information, go here.

8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M.

Calvary Baptist Church

123 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019

(from the website)

The objective of Movement Day is to:

• Convene leaders from across Greater New York and other large cities to hear the trends related to cities, urban ministry, and urban leadership from the best Christian thinkers; to

• Study the best models of urban gospel movements; and to

• Collaborate in new ways to reach and renew our metropolitan communities.

Movement Day is an invitation-only opportunity to be a part of an historic gathering of leaders learning from one another across our largest cities in North America.

For more information, go here.

Chicago

May 27-30, 2010

Pre-conferences May 26-27, 2010

The conference seeks to explore “growing the Christ’s church deep and wide” in an increasingly diverse world. The conference is a place of differences. People with varying languages, cultures, ethnicities, theologies, genders, generations and backgrounds will come together to recognize the amazing potential of differences and, through affirming and celebrating those differences, create something new.

Come and wade in the H₂O, that is the 2010 11th National Multicultural Church Conference and be nourished, sustained and reborn.

For more information, click here.

BookARetreat.com is a complete directory of all the Presbyterian camps and conference centers in the United States and Canada.  This new search engine will find the perfect place for your event based on your lodging needs and locaion.

**BookARetreat.com is brought to you by:

Presbyterian Church Camp and Conference Association www.pcca.net

The Trailhead, a non-traditional ministry in Bend, Oregon, seeks summer intern(s) to participate in a groundbreaking opportunity in New Church Development of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The intern(s) will work with Rev. Zach Hancock to establish this ministry through entrepreneurial effort that involves creating and managing an organic, locally sourced, ‘common table’ café, that will serve food/beverage and be the site of live music, guest speakers, opportunities for service to the community, other events, etc.

The intern(s) will be person(s) desiring to be involved in active expression of the Kingdom of God, as well as the desire to experiment with what it means for Church to gather in alternative, unorthodox, meaningful, dynamic ways that does not look like religious rite but practical action, not leading with words as much as deeds and contribution to the community. The intern(s) will be passionate about the transforming good news of Christ, while pursuing and developing his/her spiritual life, and have a passion about the spiritual searching of people, especially young adults whose backgrounds include difficult experiences, or no experience, with the traditional church.

Bend, OR is a city of 80,000+, set in the high desert of Central Oregon, situated at the foot of the Cascade Mountain Range (Portland, OR is a 2 ½-3 hour drive). Bend is a hotbed for outdoor pursuits, including: rock climbing (Smith Rock), mountain biking, Nordic skiing, Alpine skiing, trail running, kayaking, fly-fishing, etc. Young adults tend to be drawn to Central Oregon for recreational pursuits and work in tourism and the outdoors. Bend is home to Central Oregon Community College and the Cascades branch of Oregon State University.

The intern(s) will have housing provided (but could opt to pay for their own housing). The intern(s) will need personal support or a part-time job to cover food and other expenses (transportation, entertainment, etc.).

For further information regarding the opportunity and information about the intern supervisor (Zach Hancock), please contact:

Rev. Zach Hancock

970-347-7457

zhancock@gmail.com

* Applications are available from Rev. Hancock, to be submitted by March 31^st, 2010. Selection(s) will be made by April 30^th, 2010. Dates of internship are negotiable, however the expectation will be two months or more.

Montreat Conference Center

For lay leaders, clergy, commissioned lay pastors, seminary students, and all who wish to take part in fashioning a new vision for the church.

If we believe God yearns to turn the church loose to be a Gospel force in the world, how can we partner in what God is doing? Differences – of culture and color, gender and generation, political perspective and theology – are gifts to be explored and celebrated as we live into a Church Unbound.

Click here for more information.