Category Archives: Continuing Education

Upcoming POV Academy Classes

Information and Registration forms are now posted on the POV main site for the following classes:

  • Journey Through the New Testament – November 16-17, 2012
  • History of the Christian Church: Many Lamps, One Light? – January 18-19, 2013
  • Reformed Theolgy – March 15-16, 2013

Each retreat runs 6pm Friday – 5pm Saturday. The cost for each is $100.00

Who is the POV Academy for?

(1) Those who want to explore the possibility of becoming CREs and
(2) Any adult in any of our churches who would like to take one or more classes for their own personal growth and education.

Participants are welcome to attend only one class or as many as they would like.

For more information about each retreat, please download the flyers and registration forms.

POV Academy Class: Worship in the Reformed Tradition

The POV Academy Invites YOU to Explore

Worship in the Reformed Tradition

Led by the Rev. Dr. J. Frederick Holper
Emeritus Professor of Preaching and Worship
McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago

This course is for you if you’d like to…

  • Appreciate the creative tensions that underlie worship in the Reformed Tradition;
  • Be able to identify the “12 Tribes of Presbyterian Worship” and the gifts that each have shared with the tradition as a whole;
  • Learn how to develop your gifts for planning worship, making use of a wide range of resources including the order of worship, the liturgical year and lectionary, music and the arts;
  • Develop your capacity as a leader of worship with particular emphasis on the ministry of presence.

Those responsible for planning and/or conducting worship are especially encouraged to participate,
but all are welcome.

September 28-29, 2012 – Camp Pyoca
6 p.m. Friday – 5 p.m. Saturday

Registration closes July 25 or sooner if full.
Cost $100

Registration forms available on the POV website
or from Barbara Snyder
1820 Wheeler Road, Vincennes, IN 47591

Summer Events at CTS

Columbia Theological Seminary
Center for Lifelong Learning

May 11, 2012

Ordinary time doesn’t have to be ordinary.  Check out upcoming events this summer, “save the date” info for January seminars, and the S3 Project Proposal announcement. Subscribe to  Journeying Together, Follow us on Twitter (LLatCTSeminary)  or like us on Facebook  (Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary and Spiritual Formation at CTS)

Coming Events

July 16-19 The Global Shift of Mission (Presbyterian History and Reformed Theology Lecture Series at Montreat Conference Center) The global shift of mission is the topic of the week during the Presbyterian History and Reformed Theology Lecture Series at Montreat Conference Center. This series will focus on global Christianity and features experts from Africa, South America, Asia and the field of missiology. Read more.…

July 16-19 – Confluence 2012 (Korean Worship and Music Conference) Worship Educationally ~ Educate Worshipfully is the theme for the 2012 Korean Worship and Music Conference. To celebrate the third and final year of the Confluence educational research project for Asian American congregations, the Worship Conference and Confluence Project are holding their conference together. This conference will explore the educational significance of Christian worship experience, as well as how spirituality is nurtured during educational experiences. Read more…

July 22 – 27 Immersion Experience: An Invitation to a Deeper Spiritual Life (CSF) This course will explore the origins of the Christian Spiritual Tradition. Participants will study the formative elements of Biblical Spirituality, Monastic Spirituality, and Reformed Spirituality. This course is the starting place for the Certificate in Spiritual Formation. Participants not enrolled in the Certificate in Spiritual Formation are welcome! Read More…

August 6-8 Dispatches to God’s  Household: 1 & 2 Peter, 1–3 John, Jude ~ Presbyterian Women’s WEEKDAY training course The six books of the New Testament explored in this study teach us what it means to live in community, what it means to belong to the household of God. Led by Nancy Benson-Nicol, author of the study, we will explore family as a guiding and powerful metaphor in these epistles Read More…

August 10-11 Dispatches to God’s  Household: 1 & 2 Peter, 1–3 John, Jude ~ Presbyterian Women’s WEEKEND training course This is the weekend version of the course described, above, and will be led by Sharol Hayner, who led the weekend version of the course last summer. Read More…

August 23-26 Growing in Wholeness:  Spiritual Formation and the Adult Life-Span (CSF) Across cultures, adulthood is understood as a time to fulfill roles and responsibilities to family, community, and society as a contributing member. Yet, there are many nuances during the sixty or so years that make up the adulthood. This course will observe the research in the field of adult developmental psychology, and how the patterns of adult development can lead to a deeper appreciation of natural movements in spiritual formation for adults. Read more…

September 20-23 Embodied Spirituality: Embracing the Fullness of Life

(CSF) St. Irenaeus wrote, “The Glory of God is the human person fully alive.” What does it mean? Is it possible to be fully human and to live fully alive? In this course we will consider the body as primary instrument of learning and knowing and as central to our connection and experience of God. Read more.

 

SAVE THE DATE January 28-30, 2013: Explore Eastertide through worship, education, music, and scripture

What can worship committees, musicians, and pastoral staff do to shape coherent, faithful worship, week after week, season after season? How can Christian Education for children of God of all ages complement Sunday worship? When the focus is on the liturgical season and the biblical texts, how can we engage the ongoing work of mission and fellowship in the midst of these seasons?

Join us for January seminars 2013 to explore these and other questions with scholars and practitioners in the field  Through the lens of the liturgical season of Eastertide, preachers, teachers, music directors, worship, education and liturgical arts committee members will focus  resources to invigorate and inspire their ministries throughout the year. Participants will write liturgy, craft the proclamation of the Word, create the order of service, and write hymns that will shape closing worship during extended workshop sessions.

Workshop leaders confirmed as of this date include Glory To God Presbyterian Hymnal committee members Mel Bringle and Paul Huh and marketing coordinator Meg Flannagan; Kimberly Bracken Long, editor and contributor to the new Feasting On The Word Worship Companion; Michael Morgan, author of the Psalter For Christian Worship and contributor to the new CRC Psalter, Psalms For All Seasons; and William P. Brown, editor of the upcoming Oxford Companion To The Psalms.

Additional speakers, the event schedule and registration fee options will be announced soon. There will be discounts for groups of two or more persons from the same congregation or council/judicatory attending as a team.


Special Learning Opportunities

The S3 (Sabbath, Study and Service) Project is accepting proposals for peer learning group projects to begin in February 2013.  Groups (4-6 members) accepted will receive $500 per person to help underwrite a year-long project of their own design incorporating elements of Sabbath, Study and Service.  Application deadline is September 21. For additional information, including brochure and application, click HERE.  Questions?  Contact project coordinator/director of lifelong learning Sarah Erickson at 404-687-4526 or ericksons@ctsnet.edu.

 

CERTIFICATE in SPIRITUAL FORMATION COURSES (CSF) are open to all interested participants, not only those actively pursuing the Certificate in Spiritual Formation.

 

For additional information, please contact us at 404.687.4587 or lifelonglearning@ctsnet.edu.  Visit us on the web at for the full course listing at http://www.ctsnet.edu/LifelongLearning.aspx.

 

The Center for Lifelong Learning, Columbia Theological Seminary

P.O. Box 520/701 S. Columbia Drive,  Decatur, GA  30031

PCUSA Collegiate Ministry Locator

The Office of Collegiate Ministries is revising and updating the PCUSA Collegiate Ministry Locator. Pastors, educators, parents, and prospective students will be able to use this Locator to easily find and be in touch with a collegiate ministry near their college or university.

If you already have an established campus ministry, you will want to have it listed on the Campus Ministry Locator which is maintained by PACHEM.

The Locator can be viewed at http://www.pachem.org/index.php/find-a-ministry Once a representative sample of ministries are listed it will be linked from www.pcusa.org

In order to have your ministry listed on the PCUSA Campus Ministry Locator the following criteria must be met:

I. The ministry shows a welcoming presence and an active ministry specifically for college students.

  • Has a web site with directions and basic ministry information.
  • Demonstrates a public college ministry on the web site by
  • Specifically mentioning college students or campus ministry.
  • Having a name and contact person for college ministry (staff, lay person, student leader).
  • Showing evidence of at least one program for college students.

II. The ministry is accountable to some entity / council of the PCUSA [session, presbytery, synod.  There may be multiple lines of accountability, such as an ecumenical ministry, but one of the lines must be an entity of the PCUSA.]

III. The ministry has procedures in place for annual review of the Locator information.

Once these criteria have been met, then you can register your ministry by becoming a Ministry Member of PACHEM. Once approved, you will be ready to tailor your Locator information and to participate in the resource sharing of the PACHEM community.

For questions about PACHEM, email us atprovost@pachem.org or call Adrian McMullen, Associate for Collegiate Ministries, PC(USA) at (800) 728-7228, x5639.

POV Academy April Weekend

The POV Academy Invites YOU to:

Journey Through the Old Testament
Led by the Rev. Dr. Alan Finnan

This course is for YOU if you’d like to…

  • increase your appreciation of the spiritual value of the Old Testament
  • become more aware of the story and faith of Israel in its development as a nation
  • master a large daunting task by breaking it into smaller manageable segment
  • grow in your individual walk of faith.

April 27-29, 2012 at CampPyoca in Brownstown, Indiana.

Registration forms are available on the POV website,
or from Barbara Snyder
1820 Wheeler Road
Vincennes, IN 47591

Synod Offerings in Continuing Education

Commissioned Ruling Elder Continuing Education offered by the Synod of Lincoln Trails

The Synod of Lincoln Trails is offering continued education to commissioned ruling elders. The Rev. Dr. Laura Reason, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Highland, Ind. will lead participants through the sacred seasons of the luturgical year. Dr. Reason is a eight-time teacher of preaching and worship leadership to Synod of Lincoln Trails ruling elders.

CRE ConEd Dates:

February 11, 2012 – Lent and Easter – Year B – Registration

May 18-19, 2012 – N-Fog Interpretation and Pentecost I – Year B

August 18, 2012 – Preaching and Worship, Pentecost II – Year B

Nov. 2-3, 2012 – “What I Want to Know Is…” and Preaching &

Worship, Advent/Christmas/Epiphany – Year C

More…

 

“The Art of Transitional Ministry”

Interim Pastor Training

May 7-11, 2012

Mercy Center

St. Louis, MO

Registration deadline: April 9

Interim/Transitional Ministry Education is intended for those presently engaged in interim or transitional ministry and those inquiring about this ministry. Committee on Ministry members and presbytery staff persons with responsibility for contregations in transition will also find the education helpful.

Read the brochure or download the registration form (registration requires signature from your Executive Presbyter or Committee on Ministry moderator).

Health Ministry Conference

The Spirituality of Aging

According to the 2008 census, 15 percent of all Americans were 65 and over. By 2050, older Americans will comprise an impressive 21 percent of the U.S. population. This year’s Health Ministry Conference will focus on issues of aging and spirituality including normal spiritual health and development in the later years, chronic illness and end-of-life care.

When:
November 10, 2011
7:30 am – 3:00 pm
(Download the flyer to see the Schedule)

Where:
Sherwood Oaks Christian Church
2700 East Rogers Road
Bloomington, IN 47401

Cost: $30

Please RSVP by Nov. 7
Call 812.353.9463 or
e-mail jvanderzee@iuhealth.org

Speakers
K. Brynolf “Bernie” Lyon, PhD

Lois and Dale Bright
Professor of Christian Ministries and Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care

Cathleen Weber, LCSW
Educator, Alzheimer’s Resource Service, Indiana University Health, Bloomington

Dawna Peterson
Spiritual director, founder of PARTNERS, a creative arts program for people with early memory loss and respite care.

Wendy Baptist VanderZee, M.Div.
Chaplain, Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospice