Presbytery and Beyond
General Assembly is starting up!
Posted June 14, 2018
Some of San Gabriel’s team are already on their way to St. Louis, Missouri! Please pray for holy deliberations, great community, and safe travels for:
- YAAD Sophia Alecci
- RE Commissioner Deborah Owens
- TE Commissioner Bear Ride
- Stated Clerk Diane Frasher
- Executive Presbyter Wendy Tajima
The booklet for the GA is on-line. It includes all the information about the logistics, schedule, and worship resources for the week. You can find information about GA at https://ga-pcusa.org/ –and if you want to download the book, look for the red icon on the left-hand of the screen.
If you want all the detail on the overtures and business of the GA, go to https://www.pc-biz.org/#/ This is constantly updated throughout the week.
And if you want to feel like you’re there, you can get the Guidebook app that includes lots of information, daily news, and regular updates as the business changes. You can get the app at https://guidebook.com/g/ga223/
May we as a church continue to listen for God’s voice, and in all we do and say, may we reflect the light of Christ.
Blessings to all who are traveling to GA!
Help for Those in Need
Board of Pensions
Benifit Connections
Posted March 21, 2018
Thursday, April 19th, 10:30 AM -2:30 PM
Sheraton Gateway on Century near LAX
This will be important gathering for all Presbytery leaders, staff, COM and CPM leaders, pastors, and administrators. Frank Spencer our Board of Pensions President along with Stew Beltz, VP for Benefits will be present to lead us. With the new programs for pastors, presbyteries, and plan members coming beginning in July of this year, this will be a chance to learn and prepare, ask questions, and give feedback. More
Register (Registration ends March 23 or when seating is reached.)
Medical Director for Malawi
Posted March 21, 2018
Nkhoma Hospital is one of San Clemente Presbyterian’s Y-Malawi partners and they are in need of a Medical Director for a year, starting in June 2018.
Contact Sheryl France-Moran if you know anyone who could fill this position.
Antiracism Training
Posted March 21, 2018
Saturday, April 14, 9 AM-12 PM during the Synod Assembly
Monte Vista Grove Homes, Marwick Place
2889 San Pasqual St, Pasadena, CA 91107
Presented by Eric Law of the Kaleidescope Institute. Open to all.
Lunch is provided with RSVP.
Please RSVP with Fried Wilson
Spring Review of Minutes
Posted March 21, 2018
The Spring Review of Minute Books will be held at Shepherd of the Valley Presbyterian Church, Hacienda Heights on May 5, 2018 at 10:00 AM. The Review Form has been updated to contain the newly added item: Safety Policy for Youth in addition to one we previously had for Children. This is a new item, but we need to be working on this safety policy as it is a new GA requirement. And we most certainly want to keep our children and youth safe while they are on our campuses or on a field trip of some sort. The two policies should look a little different as it takes different approaches to care for the two different age brackets. Please think independently on each. Click HERE to download the Review Form.
I look forward to seeing many of the clerks and pastors at the Spring Review of Minute Books and Registers. Remember, if you haven’t had your books reviewed for a couple of years, we would expect to see those years too. Now, a caveat to that statement: If you are behind in your Minute Books and Registers for some years, but have this year’s up-to-date, please come and bring what you have. It is better to get started reviewing than to continuing remaining behind. We want to help you start catching up.
The Fall Review of Minute Books is still planned for October 2018 at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Pasadena. We will publish the date as soon as we have it.
Transforming Loss: Finding Potential for Growth
Posted February 26, 2018
Wednessday, March 21
Huntington Hospital, Pasadena
Eric Wall, Sacred Music Professor Coming
Posted February 26, 2018
Thursday, March 15 at 4 p.m. in Marwick Place, Monte Vista Grove Homes
Eric Wall, Assistant Professor of Sacred Music and Dean of the Chapel at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, will be here at Monte Vista Grove Homes on March 15 as Convocation speaker. At Austin Seminary, Eric is the seminary musician who oversees the seminary worship life. He also teaches courses related to church music and worship. Eric serves as Conference Center Musician for Montreat Conference Center in North Carolina, where he spends the summer season overseeing the music for Summer Worship, directing the summer staff choir, and offering concerts and lectures. From 1998 to 2015, he was Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church, Asheville, North Carolina.
Eric has contributed to Call to Worship, the journal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Theology and Worship, to The Christian Century, and to the Hymn Society’s journal The Hymn. He regularly serves the larger church by providing music andplanning leadership for a variety of conferences and gatherings and by serving as a music and worship consultant for other Presbyterian churches. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia Theological Seminary. He holds memberships in the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and the American Guild of Organists (Dean of Western North Carolina Chapter, 2009 – 2011). He received a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance in 1991 and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting in 1993, both from Florida State University.
His knowledge of and appreciation/passion for congregational song helped energize and fortify every worship service. Through his respect for the old and his enthusiastic embracing of the new, congregants came to experience Glory to God, not only as a “new hymnal”
but also as a beloved book. Glory to God connects us with and affirms our past, while giving sound to new vision and challenges facing the church in the 21st century.
ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!
Explore Our New Hymnal
Posted February 26, 2018
Tuesday, March 6 and 13 at 4 p.m. in Marwick Place
Led by Rebecca Thompson
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Hurricane Relief
Posted January 16, 2018
Would you like to help with the relief effort in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria?
International Mission Partnerships and Cross-cultural Training (IMPACT) is taking applications for a trip this summer.
IMPACT is a local faith-based organization that trains and sends out mission groups each year to places where they have local contacts.
IMPACT will be partnering with All Hands and Hearts or World Renew this summer to put together a clean-up and recovery trip to Puerto Rico. The cross-cultural training dates are June 25-28 and it takes place in Southern CA. Directly after training the group will travel to Puerto Rico and is scheduled to return on July 10.
Applications are being accepted now and are due Feb. 10, so don’t delay. For more information about IMPACT.
Caring for Creation with Biodegradable Supplies
Posted Jan 16, 2018
New Moderator
Posted Fabruary 6, 2018
The Presbytery of San Gabriel witnessed at it’s January meeting the installation of its new moderator.
At the podium is Elder Fried Wilson, the out-going Presbytery Moderator. The woman is Rev. Becca Bateman, the new Moderator for 2018 and the man next to her is Rev. Roberto Ramirez, the new Vice Moderator for 2018.
Mosaic of Peace
Posted January 9, 2018
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Job Opening
Posted January 9, 2018
Presbytery Minumums 2018
Posted January 9, 2018