Home - November Presbytery Meeting
- Village Church in Rancho Santa Fe To Host November Presbytery Meeting
Rev. Dr. Alan Roxburgh to be Guest Preacher
Clark's Corner- November
Fires- Presbytery of San Diego & Churches Reach Out
to Assist Communities Impacted by October Wildfires
Reality Changers Fire Response
Makes Local, National, and International News
White Sands Opens its Doors to Fire Evacuees
Synod Meeting- Photos from the Synod Meeting
Synod Commissioners Approve New Mission Design
Jack Shelver Completes Term as Synod Moderator
Hispanic Ministries- Sunday Night “Adoración” Worship Service Grows,
25 People Join Chula Vista Presbyterian Church
Upcoming Events- Jeannie Cheatham, November 11
Presbyterian Theologians to Gather at Two Meetings in San Diego, November 17
Board of Pensions Seminar, January 24-25
Village Church in Rancho Santa Fe To Host November Presbytery Meeting
Presbyterian pastors and commissioners will gather on Tuesday, November 20, at 2:30 pm at the Village Community Presbyterian Church in Rancho Santa Fe [Gmap] for the next meeting of the Presbytery of San Diego. The Rev. Dr. Clark Cowden will be installed as Executive Presbyter and it is anticipated that the Way Forward Task Force will make a progress report.- Click here for meeting details & docket.
November Presbytery Meeting
- Rev. Dr. Alan Roxburgh to be Guest Preacher
Noted author and theologian Rev. Dr. Alan Roxburgh will be guest preacher at the worship service. In addition, a pre-Presbytery session beginning at 12:30 pm will feature a commentary on the missional church by Roxburgh. See the November “Clark’s Corner” for an excerpt from a recent book by Roxburgh, “The Sky is Falling.” (Complete title is a long one – “The Sky is Falling!?! Leaders Lost in Transition: A Proposal for Leadership Communities to Take New Risks for the Reign of God.”)
Rev. Dr. Alan Roxburgh
Roxburgh has a lengthy article on The Missional Church at www.TheologyMatters.com/TMissues/SeptOct 04.pdf. You will also find a good review of this book at www.the-next-wave-ezine.info, and click on Church & Culture.
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Presbytery of San Diego & Churches Reach Out
to Assist Communities Impacted by October Wildfires
See: Fires — Letters from Executive Presbyter
A great many churches in the presbytery have organized a response to the devastating wildfires throughout San Diego County in mid-October. Here is a list of churches offering support services and their websites. (If your church is not on this list, please advise us at Web@PresbyterySD.org.) In addition, assistance is available from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, www.PCUSA.org/pda/response/usa/ca-wildfires-index.htm
Area Presbyterian Church Websites Offering Support Services
Christ Presbyterian Church, Carlsbad/La Costa
www.ChristPresbyterianChurch.net
Fallbrook Presbyterian Church
www.FallbrookPres.org
Fletcher Hills Presbyterian Church
www.FHPC.org
Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church
www.RBCPC.com
Solana Beach Presbyterian Church
www.SolanaPres.org
Village Community Presbyterian Church, Rancho Santa Fe
www.VillageChurch.org
Fires
- Reality Changers Fire Response
Makes Local, National, and International News - By Chris Yanov, Director
Nearly 50 RC students, tutors, and grads have spent the past 24 hours volunteering at the Qualcomm Stadium Evacuation Site. Some students started before noon and others worked well past midnight, with eight brave souls arriving home after yet another hazy dawn.-
Major projects included: -
* Providing "essentials" at dusk to everyone sleeping in a car, tent, or on the cement in the entire stadium's parking lot. These essentials included food, water, diapers, toothbrushes, soap, flashlights, and sunscreen for the morning. -
* Preparing breakfast for the entire food line that is expected to serve over 10,000 people as I write this message. -
For their good works, and essentially because we were the last large volunteer group still at the stadium (and the TV reporters were still looking for stories at all hours of the night), the RC students were featured on: -
*Fox 6 San Diego
*Fox News Channel with Geraldo Rivera
*The BBC -
For the San Diego community that has served us so well over the years, we are ready to serve you. If we can help meet your needs, small and large groups of students are ready to mobilize for you. -
Pictures of this event will be included in the 2008 Reality Changers Yearbook set for release in November.
For more information go to www.RealityChangers.org
- White Sands Opens its Doors to Fire Evacuees
- by Clio McEuen
For the week the recent fires burned in our backcountry, the White Sands Retirement Home in La Jolla was full of evacuees. The Sands’ vacant Independent Living facilities were full of 18 people evicted by the fires. They came from referrals by the residents, staff and Qualcomm staff, says Wendy Matalon, Director of White Sands.
White Sands also filled their Skilled Nursing facility with 10 evacuees who needed specialized medical care. As the White Sands staffing was down due to the fire, their staff worked double shifts. Their sister facility, Redwood Terraces in Escondido, also sent their head nurse to help with the nursing needs at White Sands when staffing became low.-
Thank you White Sands for the tremendous job you did of caring for those in need during the fires that burnt San Diego County.
Photos from the Synod Meeting
Synod Commissioners Approve New Mission Design- by Bob Battenfield, Editor
Commissioners to the Annual Meeting of the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii, held October 25-27 at the Hacienda Hotel in Los Angeles, approved a new Mission Design that reduces the number of committees and programs and cuts the number of people involved nearly in half.
The number of Synod Commissioners is being reduced from 100 to 50. Synod Council drops from 55 to 24 members. Council Committees, which totaled 51 members, are eliminated and replaced by a 25-member Committee on Cross-Presbytery Ministries (CCPM).
CCPM has responsibility to make recommendations regarding church development and redevelopment funds, restricted and designated funds for mission and ministry, racial-ethnic and justice ministries, emerging mission and ministry issues, and for affinity group ministries. “The Committee may choose to create subgroups,” the report stated, “but the Task Force believes the group will need to work its way into what is a different structure for administering grants and restricted funds that support mission and ministry.”
Each presbytery will have one minister and one elder or layperson on CCPM, and an additional eight persons nominated to assure diversity. The chair will be the Vice Moderator, Moderator-Elect.
Five organizations, known as Constituency Groups, will not be funded directly by the Synod under the new design. These groups are the Asian Presbyterian Council, the Hispanic Commission, the National Black Presbyterian Caucus, the Synod Native American Council, and the Synod Women’s Advocacy Network. Under the new design they are recognized as Affinity Groups, and can make proposal requesting funding for specific programs or events.
Other significant actions:
It was agreed that an overture would be submitted to the General Assembly that the Presbytery of Hanmi, a Korean-language, non-geographic Presbytery, would continue to operate without term limit under the Synod and would follow through on a series of steps necessary to be in compliance with the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (USA). This agreement is a milestone in the work of a Synod Administrative Commission created in 1999. (The word “Hanmi” is derived from “Han” meaning “Korean” and “Mi” meaning “American.”)
www.Synod.org/vision/mission_design_final.pdf
Synod Meeting
- Jack Shelver Completes Term as Synod Moderator
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Jack Shelver
Jack Shelver, a member of Faith Presbyterian Church, retired as Synod Moderator. Elected to serve as Moderator in 2008 was Angelica Michail, an elder at Shepherd of the Valley Presbyterian Church in San Gabriel Presbytery. Steve Salyards, an elder at La Verne Heights Presbyterian Church who chaired the New Mission Design Task Force was elected Vice Moderator, Moderator-Elect.
For more information, go to www.Synod.org.
Sunday Night “Adoración” Worship Service Grows,
25 People Join Chula Vista Presbyterian Church
What started as a Wednesday-night Spanish-Language Bible Study about one year ago has grown into a Spanish-Language Sunday Evening Worship Service at Chula Vista Presbyterian Church. Called “Adoración,” the Sunday evening service started in July. Through the end of September, attendance has averaged 27 worshippers. Also, 25 people have joined the Chula Vista church as a result of the Hispanic Ministry.-
Nicasio Rojas Ramirez
Leader of the Hispanic Ministry is Nicasio Rojas Ramirez, an elder with the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico and a member of the Dios Habla Hoy Iglesia Presbiteriana in the El Lago Section of Tijuana. He completed requirements for Program of Training of Lay Leaders (PALL) at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena in August, and returned for Counsellor Training in September. Rojas is also the Mexican Presbytery’s representative to the Baja Presbyterian Missions Board.
Other leaders of the group are Vicky Romero, moderator; Patricia Palomino, secretary; and Carmen Carvajal, secretary. Hugo Carvajal has represented the ministry at meetings of San Diego Presbytery.
For more information, go to www.CVPres.org.
Hispanic Ministries
Jeannie Cheatham, November 11
Jeannie Cheatham, versatile Jazz pianist, composer and singer will bring her ensemble to La Jolla Presbyterian Church on Sunday, November 11 at 7 p.m. The church is located at 7715 Draper Ave. [Gmap] A free-will offering will be taken; tickets are not required.
Upcoming Events
- Presbyterian Theologians to Gather
at Two Meetings in San Diego, November 17
The Office of Theology and Worship of the PC(USA) would like to invite local pastors to attend sessions events at the American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting which will take place on Saturday, November 17.
The first is a 9 am – 11:30 am session at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature. The topic is “Theology for the PC(USA).” The discussion will be in Room 28D at the San Diego Convention Center. Presbyterian Church (USA) pastors and scholars are invited to this meeting dedicated to doing theology for the church. This year's gathering will focus on emerging Korean American Presbyterian theology and its engagement with the question of what it means to confess Christ in the changing context of Korean American life. A panel made up of a pastor (Kevin Park), a professor (Young Lee Hertig), and a governing body leader (Heahwan Rim) will present their reflections, which we will then engage through a group discussion.
In the evening will be a Presbyterian Scholars Reception from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Salon E at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. Members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and faculty at Presbyterian institutions are invited to meet and connect with each other at this reception. In addition to light refreshments, we want to explore ways to link more closely with one another and with the church.
Sponsors of the reception are the Office of Theology and Worship and the Office of Theological Education.
For further information contact Anita Brown, Office of Theology and Worship (888 728-7228 x5033), Anita.Brown@PCUSA.org
- Board of Pensions Seminar, January 24-25
- Growing into Tomorrow . . . Today
The PC(USA) Board of Pensions will present a member education seminar on January 24-25, 2008, at The White Sands of La Jolla. Advance registration is required due to limited seating. The registration deadline is December 21, 2007. This is a two-day retirement planning seminar for active clergy and lay Benefits Plan members age 50 and older, and spouses.
To read more about the seminar and to register, click here.
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