Happening Around the Presbytery - December 3, 2014 Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery 907 National Road Wheeling, WV 26003 304-232-3490 uovpresby.org Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. In an emergency after office hours: call 740-359-1813 PLEASE CONTINUE TO KEEP IN YOUR PRAYERS: Ed Mooney Joe Byrne Howard Varner Royce Browder Ernesto Badillo Bruce Stevens Lesley Shoup Leura Nancy Macon Betty Dornick Kay Whinnery Barry Todd Nancy Mountz Marie Luckhardt David Kline Delbert (Butch) McNear Jim Wolgamott Fran Offerdahl Donna Todd Keith McMannis Ginny Zoric Britt Johnson Kurt Turner Ebola health crisis Peace in the Middle East Dakota Presbytery Partnership and our brothers and sisters in Sisseton, SD Domasi Presbytery Partnership All our service men and women Please keep us informed of any prayer concerns you may have. PRAYER FOR UOVP PASTORS: Select one of these pastors and remember him/her in your prayers this week: Ginny Zoric, Danny Aderholt, Mike Anderson, Laurie Armstrong, Dick Baker. MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION: International Partner Prayer Requests for December: This month we ask for your help in praying about an ultrasound project. Ultrasounds have become a well-known diagnostic tool, and they are ideally suited for use in developing countries due to their portability, non-invasive function and cost effectiveness. MBF is working on a project to provide ultrasound machines for 5 Malawi mission hospitals. ULTRASOUND UNITS FOR MALAWI HOSPITALS: 1. Praise God for a church grant that is a great jump-start on a project to provide 6 portable ultrasound units for 5 Malawi mission hospitals - Ekwendeni, Embangweni, Nkhoma, David Gordon Memorial, and Mulanje. Pray for other donors to help complete the project funding so it can happen soon. 2. Pray for the right people to volunteer as the training team to train key Malawi hospital staff. These trained personnel will then return and train other physicians and clinical officers at their hospitals. 3. Pray for hospital staff and technicians to embrace this technology and be empowered to provide better diagnosis and treatment. Pray that this will encourage and energize them in their work of giving the best care possible to all their patients. A HUGE THANKS goes to First Westminster Presbyterian Church for hosting our November Presbytery Meeting. They were gracious hosts! THANK YOU: “…I am now at the new place Thondwe CCAP. The pastor who has replaced me is Rev. Ntepiha…I would like to thank…the entire faith brethren of Trinity and Longs Run and the entire Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery for your prayers and support to the pastoral work I have had at Malosa and Domasi Presbytery….Your brother, Picklen” IF YOU KNOW you will have a new clerk for 2015, please e-mail Patty his/her name, mailing address, home phone, and e-mail address. This will help in printing the 2015 presbytery directory. LAUGHLIN MEMORIAL CHAPEL, 129½ 18th St., Wheeling, would like to have Christmas items no later than tomorrow, December 4th. For more info, please call us at 304-232-2630. Thank you for your generosity and support! THE CONGREGATION OF TWO RIDGES PRESBYTERIAN Church invites everyone to a Christmas Concert featuring the Ron Retzer Trio this Friday evening, December 5, at 7:00 p.m. in the church sanctuary. The trio will sing many of the familiar carols as well as other seasonal selections. Two Ridges Presbyterian Church is located at 1085 Canton Road (Route 43) Wintersville, Ohio. Following the concert, light refreshments will be served in the fellowship hall. A HOLIDAY CARD TO WHEELING will be performed by the West Liberty University Music Department on Sunday, December 7, at 3:00 p.m. and again at 7:00 p.m. at Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church, 905 National Road, Wheeling. Featured will be the Arthur I. Boreman Elementary School Choir, Triadelphia Middle School Chorus, Wheeling Park High School Young Patriots, Brooke High School Madrigal Singers, St. Matthew Episcopal Church Choir, the West Liberty University Concert and University Choirs and a special brass and string ensemble. A free will offering will be given to Laughlin Memorial Chapel. For free tickets, call the WLU Music Department at 304-336-8930. THE CONGREGATION OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Church, 901 Charles St., Wellsburg, WV, invites all to a free community dinner on Thursday, December 11, at 6:00 p.m. The congregation has been offering these dinners for several months now, hosting upwards of 80 people. All are welcome! THE CONGREGATION OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Church, 4100 Central Ave., Shadyside, Ohio, invites you to “An Evening with John Alan and Sing Rose,” Sunday, December 14th, at 7:00 pm: It is with great pleasure and appreciation of their talent that we present John Alan and Sing Rose in a community Christmas concert in Shadyside. They are both local artists and International talents. American composer and pianist John Alan Rose is an emerging, multi-talented artist of great insight who has successfully performed his own music throughout the United States. Twice performing in ‘Winners’ Concerts’ at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Mr. Rose has received prizes at international music competitions both as a pianist and as a composer. He has appeared on radio and TV commenting and playing his own music and has recorded his works on various labels. Distinguished soprano Sing Rose has captured audiences with her stellar performances internationally and nationally after winning First Prize in two divisions at the Los Angeles International Franz Liszt Vocal Competition in 2006. She also was the First Prize Winner of the National Vocal Competition in Korea and has been the Finalist of the Bellini International Vocal Competition in Italy. She performs Opera, Lied and Oratorio and her concert repertoire ranges from early music to contemporary works. A Love Offering will be accepted. TRAINING ON HOW TO COMPLETE Annual Reports for 2014 will be held twice on Tuesday, December 16, at 2:00 p.m. and again at 7:00 p.m. at the Presbytery Office, 907 National Road, Wheeling. All forms for annual reports will soon be available electronically through the presbytery’s website uovpresby.org. There are no paper packets of blank report forms. A letter with password will be sent to each of the clerks in the next few weeks. Please let Patty know which time slot you will be attending: 304-232-3490 or [email protected]. APCE—Association of Presbyterian Church Educators—annual event will be held February 4 – 7, 2015, in Baltimore. And our Synod Resource Center budget has scholarship money available! There is enough funding available to offer one more $350 scholarship to attend APCE. That is the cost of registration for the event if you are a member of APCE. Membership cost is $100 for 2015 and is not included with the registration cost. Chantal, Synod Treasurer, needs the request as soon as possible. She will be closing the books for the Synod by December 15. First come, first served. For more info about APCE, go to their website at m.apcenet.org. WE HAVE LOTS OF FREE BOOKS available to all UOVP members. Browse the shelves and boxes in our hallway. More books just came in yesterday. 2015 LITURGICAL COLORS CALENDAR: To find a printable liturgical calendar with the liturgical colors for paraments, go to pcusa.org/resource/2015-liturgical-colors/. PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CONTINUING ED ~ pts.edu/CE ~ 412-924-1345 ~ E: [email protected] The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and Christian Discipleship ~ Jan. 11-16, 2015, Martha Robbins Read More. Re-Thinking Church ~ Jan. 19-Feb. 13, 2015, led by Edwin Chr. Van Driel. $85.00. Growing insecurity about the place of the church in a secularized, Western society and ongoing internal conflicts are tearing the fabric of denominations and congregations. Imagine new possibilities for the church in this context.
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