2012 Skylands District Day of Learning

2012 Skylands District Day of Learning

DATE:                       2/18/2012

LOCATION:             First UMC (Newton) 111 Ryerson Ave, Newton, NJ  07860

TIMES:                      Starts 8:30 am             Ends 1:15 pm

Event Schedule
8:30 am- 9:00 am – Registration (light breakfast provided)
9:00 am – 9:45 am – Gathering Worship
10:00 am- 11:30 am – First Session Workshops
11:45 am – 1:15 pm – Second Session Workshops

Note:  No lunch break will be provided

The workshops you can choose to attend will include the following:

 Staff-Parish Relations Committee- SPRC members & Pastors

  It All Begins Here: Making the Best of a Few Workers – Lay Leadership, Spirit Team, Missions, Worship/Music

 The Promise and Purpose of Discipleship – open to all

 Life-Changing small Groups- open to all

 Stewardship 201 – Finance and Stewardship

 Children and Prayer – Sunday School teachers, Youth Workers etc.

 Growing a Healthy Church with Natural Church Devbelopment – Visioning, Worship, Staff Parish, Ad Council

 Are You a Facebook Official? – Evangelism, Witness, Spirit Team, Communications

 Youth Leader’s Tool Box – Youth Workers, Pastors

 Employee-related Taxes – SPRC, Finance and Treasurers

 Year-End Statistical Reporting – Pastors, Finance and Treasurers

 Worship and Media – Worship Committee, Lay Leaders, Pastors

 Intro to Lay Speaking – open to all

 Vacation Bible School – Children and Youth coordinators, Pastors

 General/Jurisdictional Conference Q & A – open to all

 

Brochures are available in the church vestibule. Registration is due by February 13. There is no charge to attend these workshops. Funding for the District Days of Learning is provided by your contributions to the Shared Ministry Fund.

Pastor’s Pen

Dear Friends,
I + you = we

This is an equation for the church at work. It’s like that great hymn #558 in our United Methodist Hymnal. The refrain reminds us “I am the church, you are the church, we are the church together.” None of us can or should try to be the church on our own. Likewise, the “we” cannot exist without our participation.” The church, by definition, is the collective Body of Christ. The Apostle Paul goes to great length to explain to us how every part of the Body is important, and serves different functions.
We United Methodists are blessed to be part of a denomination that is called “connectional.” That means that we are not only part of a community here in Milford, but part of a national and international community as well. Sometimes people see that larger structure as the big, amorphous “they.” But that’s simply not the case. It is you and I, along with many others, who make up this larger community of faith. We elect persons to represent us and our views in the larger church. We are able to help people in need across the world because the network of ministry is already established. United Methodists are able to make a powerful statement for the sake of Jesus Christ in our world. It is definitely a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
As we begin this new year of ministry together, I invite you to consider where you fit into the equation. Be part of the “we” that serves our God every day.

Blessings,
Linda