Presbyterian Mission Agency

Native Lands of the Southwest Travel Study Seminar
2023-04-28 - 2023-05-07
April 28 – May 7, 2023: Native Lands of the Southwest Travel Study Seminar: The Doctrine of Discovery and its Legacy Today

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.

Finance, Operations, and Budget (FOB) Committee Meeting
2023-04-28 11:00 - 12:00
Finance, Operations, and Budget (FOB) Committee Zoom Meeting

Town Hall Forum
2023-05-04 13:00 - 14:00
The Office of Theology and Worship and Presbyterian Association of Musicians host Call to Worship editor Sally Ann McKinsey and Phillip Morgan to explore the Lectionary Aids 57.1.
To register visit: https://www.presbymusic.org/town-hall

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=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 922 9428 9022
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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

Office of Gender & Racial Justice Monthly Webinar
2023-05-17 19:00 - 20:30
This webinar is centered on the work of the Office of Gender & Racial Justice and focused on anti-racism.
Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucuGopj4iG9VTkU0jEliwWbXfT0-pOZpC

PCUSA, A Corporation Board Meeting
2023-05-18 08:30 - 2023-05-19 12:00
Meeting of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board

Unification Commission Meeting
2023-05-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-06-22 - 2023-06-24
Regular meeting of the Unification Commission
To watch live stream, click here.

Churchwide Online Workshop for Matthew 25: Eradicating Systemic Poverty
2023-05-23 14:00 - 15:30
The first of three online Matthew 25 events.
Register here

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.

MRTI: June Meeting Day 1
2023-06-05 14:00 - 16:30
MRTI’s virtual June meeting will be taking place June 5th and 6th.

MRTI: June Meeting Day 2
2023-06-06 14:00 - 16:30

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=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 922 9428 9022
Passcode: [REDACTED]

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

Worship & Music Conference
2023-06-18 19:00 - 2023-06-23 19:00 | Montreat Conference Center, 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat, NC, 28757, United States
The annual Worship & Music Conference at Montreat is an intergenerational conference for anyone who loves to sing, play, learn, worship, and fellowship. This year’s theme is “Thirst No More” and features Larissa Kwong Abazia (preacher), Kendra Buckwalter Smith (liturgist), Eric Wall and Tony McNeill (worship musicians), William P. Brown, David Gambrell, and David Bjorlin (adult seminars).
Registration link: https://www.presbymusic.org/2023registration

Juneteenth
2023-06-19

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

Office of Gender Racial Justice Monthly Training (Webinar)
2023-06-21 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-06-28 13:30 - 14:30
Webinars centered on the work of the Office of Gender & Racial Justice focused on topics like anti-racism, advocacy and allyship, radical welcome and more.
Zoom Registration

Worship & Music Conference
2023-06-25 19:00 - 2023-06-30 19:00

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.
