Presbyterian Mission Agency

Lament and the Doctrine of Discovery
2023-04-28 08:00 - 2023-05-03 17:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | Washington DC and Alexandria, VA
The Reformed Institute of Washington D.C. is hosting an event on lament and the Doctrine of Discovery and a meeting of the Consultation on Common Texts.

Exploring Missional Leadership
2023-05-06 10:00 - 17:00 | Lacey Presbyterian Church, 3045 Carpenter Rd. SE, Lacey, WA, 98503, United States
Starting a new worshiping community is hard work that requires particular competencies in order to flourish. How can you know whether God has given you the gifts needed to start a new worshiping community? How can we all identify and encourage potential new worshiping community leaders? If God is calling us to start a new worshiping community, how can we best prepare? Exploring missional leadership answers these questions.
Exploring Missional Leadership is a daylong event hosted by mid councils and seminaries and led by 1001 national staff. Through presentations, active learning and group conversation, participants will be introduced to the nature of missional church planting and the competencies needed to do that work. Participants discerning a call to start a new worshiping community will be guided in identifying next steps to take in their own skills development. Participants involved in overseeing NWC work will be guided in ways to identify and cultivate potential new worshiping community leaders in their presbytery, congregation or circle of influence.

Older Adult Week
2023-05-07 - 2023-05-13
Older Adult Week – for more information, go to: https://poamn.org/older-adult-month/

Faith Formation Leader Connection
2023-05-11 13:00 - 14:00, 2023-05-23 20:00 - 21:00
May Topic: Children’s Resources – One-hour sessions: to share resources on the topic and then open to general conversation, questions, and sharing
With Stephanie Fritz, Coordinator, Office of Christian Formation and Miatta Wilson, Mission Associate, Office of Christian Formation
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92294289022?pwd=L3c1VlQ3VU9zVUU5cEFaMTZPYnRUUT09
Meeting ID: 922 9428 9022
Passcode: 165642

Struggle is Real webinar
2023-05-16 14:00 - 15:30
This event is for congregations, mission/social justice committees, mid councils, local community partners, volunteers, community-based organizations, and anyone interested in the work of advocating for social justice issues and/or creating equity.
Our purpose is to create an awareness around the intersectionality of poverty and other economic and social justice issues. We also want to provide perspectives through both a national and local lens and explore possible ways to help guide our work in addressing poverty in veteran communities and how to listen, engage and form relationships with these communities.
REGISTER at https://sdopveterans.rsvpify.com

NWC Funds Development Training
2023-05-17 - 2023-05-22 | Dallas, TX
To gather with NWC leaders for an in-person training event to develop skills in funds development for their NWC – this is in partnership with Grace Presbytery and The Focus Group – an organization serving non-profit and faith leaders to develop fundraising ski

Connecting the Dots: Shining the light in the shadows - Militarism in our daily life
2023-05-17 12:00 - 13:30
This webinar will explore why our society is investing so heavily in military spending when we are confronted daily by urgent problems like poverty, broken infrastructure and environmental catastrophes. We’ll examine the powers and forces within our society that are at play and what work needs to be done to repair our world.
Registration Link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ebzEBes6SPChC06myNJckA

Annual Retreat for 1001 Leaders
2023-05-30 - 2023-06-02 | Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM
Annual retreat for leaders of new worshiping communities who are a part of the 1001 apprenticeship and residency program.

Faith Formation Leader Connection
2023-06-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2023-06-27 20:00 - 21:00
June Topic: At Home Resources – One-hour sessions: to share resources on the topic and then open to general conversation, questions, and sharing
With Stephanie Fritz, Coordinator, Office of Christian Formation and Miatta Wilson, Mission Associate, Office of Christian Formation
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92294289022?pwd=L3c1VlQ3VU9zVUU5cEFaMTZPYnRUUT09
Meeting ID: 922 9428 9022
Passcode: 165642

UKirk National Conference
2023-06-13 - 2023-06-16
The 2023 UKirk National Gathering will be held June 13-16, 2023, at Massanetta Springs in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The theme this year is More Than Enough, and will focus on the questions: What does it mean to be enough, to have enough, to have had enough?
Click here for more information.

ACSWP Summer Meeting
2023-06-15 - 2023-06-16
Location: Birmingham, AL

World Refugee Day Virtual Faith Vigil
2023-06-20 16:00 - 17:00
Rev. Sunny Kang, PCUSA pastor, senior pastor at United University Church in LA (Pacific Presbytery) has agreed to speak as part of the World Refugee Day Vigil, hosted by the Interfaith Immigration Coalition.
Join us in lifting up the voices of refugees and asylum seekers, offering prayers, and mobilizing our faith communities.
· Share testimonies of refugees and faith partnerships,
· Re-ignite energies for refugee resettlement and accompaniment among congregations
· Rebuild our U.S. heritage of welcoming refugees and asylum seekers, and
· Raise awareness of refugee and asylum seeker advocacy needs
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3B5Y-pifRBO7phO2S59W1w#/registration

Matthew 25 eradicating systemic poverty workshop on measuring impact
2023-06-29 15:00 - 16:30
We know the shifts we need to make personally, corporately and systematically in order to end poverty. How do we know if our work to end poverty does in fact contribute towards the systemic and structural changes needed to truly do so? What are the critical elements of measuring our impact that help us to look at big picture questions? Andrew Kang Bartlett of the Presbyterian Hunger Program will introduce “Whole Measures,” a tool that can be used to qualitatively assess efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty in communities. Respondents will include staff from Self-Development of People and World Mission.

A Year with Matthew webinar
2023-07-11 13:00 - 14:00
This webinar will help preachers, musicians, and other worship planners connect the biblical texts of lectionary Year A with the PC(USA)’s Matthew 25 vision.
Live-streaming and recorded:
https://www.facebook.com/pcusa
https://www.youtube.com/c/presbyterianchurch

Faith Formation Leader Connection
2023-07-13 13:00 - 14:00, 2023-07-25 20:00 - 21:00
July Topic: Help Me Find… – One-hour sessions: to share resources on the topic and then open to general conversation, questions, and sharing
With Stephanie Fritz, Coordinator, Office of Christian Formation and Miatta Wilson, Mission Associate, Office of Christian Formation
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92294289022?pwd=L3c1VlQ3VU9zVUU5cEFaMTZPYnRUUT09
Meeting ID: 922 9428 9022
Passcode: 165642

College and Young Adult Sunday
2023-08-06

Faith Formation Leader Connection
2023-08-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2023-08-22 20:00 - 21:00
August Topic: Youth Resources – One-hour sessions: to share resources on the topic and then open to general conversation, questions, and sharing
With Stephanie Fritz, Coordinator, Office of Christian Formation and Miatta Wilson, Mission Associate, Office of Christian Formation
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92294289022?pwd=L3c1VlQ3VU9zVUU5cEFaMTZPYnRUUT09
Meeting ID: 922 9428 9022
Passcode: 165642

Matthew 25 Table - Congregational Vitality Webinar
2023-08-15 14:00 - 15:00
This event is a webinar hosted by the Office of Vital Congregations as a part of a series of webinars promoted by the Matthew 25 Table.
Please register here.

Community Circle: Lilly Endowment Parenting and Caregiver Initiative
2023-08-16 13:00 - 14:00
This Community Circle will be a place to find out more about the plans the Office of Christian Formation has around the Lilly Endowment Christian Parenting and Caregiver grant received.
Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtduygrz8vGtdg9dPD330N9IZpjgIThZC7#/registration

Vital Church Series
2023-08-19 13:00 - 14:00

Hunger Action Congregations Meet-up
2023-08-23 12:00 - 13:00
There will be three virtual events:
April 11, 2023 @ Noon (eastern)
August 23, 2023 @ Noon (eastern)
November 7, 2023 @ Noon (eastern)

Matthew 25 eradicating systemic poverty workshop on community organizing and advocacy
2023-08-28 11:00 - 12:00
This online workshop will cover concepts of community organizing, movement building, and public policy/corporate policy advocacy as vital models for tackling root causes of poverty. We will have a speaker from a local Congregation Based Community Organization (CBCO) on community organizing, someone from the Office of Public Witness to address policy advocacy, and we hope someone from Poor People’s Campaign or another strong movement to talk about how to build people’s power and movements. We hope to also have someone from a presbytery that’s used elements of these models “in real life”/”on the gound” to participate.

Connecting the Dots Webinar: Hope for a Peaceful Future in Colombia?
2023-09-06 12:00 - 13:30
Church leaders from Colombia and the United States will share about their experiences in seeking peace with justice for Colombia and provide some glimpses of what life is like in the communities as the government promotes Total Peace and negotiates with the remaining armed groups.
Registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pq6AJxaUTnuqeu0MFqDZMQ

Christian Formation Week
2023-09-10 - 2023-09-16
Christian Formation Week – For more information, go to: https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/theology-formation-and-evangelism/office-of-christian-formation/christian-formation-week/

2023 International Peacemaker Orientation
2023-09-12 - 2023-09-15
Orientation occurs (in-person) in Louisville, KY.

Book Study - The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
2023-09-12 19:00 - 20:00
Gather with PHP’s Global Solidarity Network in examining the Church’s complicity in colonization and the exploitation of Indigenous lands, resources, and peoples that continues today. Join with us as we work to answer the call to transform the Church and our relationships with our neighbors, the land, and all of Creation.

Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rcumgqD0oEtE96x3JbhZzXdl31hti-ZkU#/registration
