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Holy Week resources and reflections

Volunteer SOS: Workers needed immediately at Texas project

New Covenant Presbytery has put out an urgent call for volunteers to come to Texas to help build a Volunteer Village at Port Neches.

The village, along the Gulf Coast of Texas, had been under construction for use by Presbyterian Disaster Assistance  and was due to be finished by early March. But thunderstorms that blew through the area on Feb. 11 destroyed some of the work that had already been done, so more construction volunteers are needed immediately to keep the project on track.

March to Austin Seminary to teach Old Testament

W. Eugene March, known to OUTLOOK readers as the writer of Old Testament Bible commentaries in the magazine, will share in the teaching of Old Testament courses at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas, as interim professor of Old Testament beginning in the 2009-2010 academic year.

Be “customer-driven”

When we use the term “customer-driven,” as opposed to “provider-driven,” to describe best practices in church management and program, we aren’t redefining church members as paying customers in a profit-making enterprise.

Ten minutes with Erin Cox-Holmes

Editor’s Note: Erin Cox-Holmes is the “mother hen”’ of the Commissioned Lay Pastor (CLP) program in Kiskiminetas Presbytery in Yatesboro, Pa., as part her duties as associate general presbyter. She helped develop their original training program more than 10 years ago; she led the updating of that program two years ago; and she serves as technical director of the distance learning component for it, in cooperation with six other western Pennsylvania presbyteries and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She teaches the Christian Education course for Dubuque Seminary’s program for CLPs. Outlook Editor Jack Haberer sat down with her to talk about trends and developments in CLP programs around the church.

CLPs: Pandora’s box or adaptive leadership?

As the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has faithfully sought to develop, grow, and equip leaders for the new millennium, we have simultaneously witnessed in recent decades the expansion of the church’s use of Commissioned Lay Pastors (CLPs). Because the evolving role of CLPs currently claims both its supporters and detractors, it is important that we understand the history of this ministry in order to appreciate its implications for our future.     

California court decision may affect church property disputes

In a number of presbyteries, church property disputes — arising when a congregation decides to leave the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for another denomination — continue to bubble through the judicial system. Some of these cases are being resolved within the presbytery. In others, cases have been filed in the secular courts.

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