Dealing with Conflict - a Pre-presbytery opportunity

MOSD is sponsoring a Pre-presbytery workshop entitled RECASTING THE PAUL-BARNABAS CLASH; A primer on dealing constructively with conflict - focusing on Interests not Positions. The workshop will be led by the Rev. Phin Washer.

It is a two hour workshop drawing on a book by Roger Fisher and William Ury (Chapter 3) Getting to Yes, and Scripture: Acts 12:12, 25; 13:1-6, 15:36-41 and 2 Timothy 4:11.

There will be two identical workshops which you may choose from:

**************October 23, 2008 Thursday 7:00 p.m***************
**************Madison Sq. Presbyterian Church ******************
************** 319 Camden @ Lexington, San Antonio*************
*********************Supper served from 6:00 for $7 **************

************** October 24, 2008 Friday 10:00 a.m. **************
************** First Presbyterian Church **************************
************** Fourth and Alamo, San Antonio *********************

RSVP by October 21. Required for Thursday supper; appreciated for the wkshops.

Contact Mission Presbytery, 210-493-1519 or 800-683-9999 or email missionpby@missionpby.org

Peacemaking Offering

One of the four special offerings of the PC(USA) is the Peacemaking Offering, usually taken up around the time of World Communion Sunday, October 5 this year.

As usual, 50 % will be spent at the General Assembly level for peacemaking conferences and materials. Another 25% is available for each congregation to give to a cause of its choice. The Presbytery gets to designate the remaining 25%.

Mission Presbytery this year is splitting the amount it may use between two overseas concerns and seminars within the Presbytery itself. Forty percent will go again to Neve Shalom-Wahat al Salam, the amazing Jewish/Arab village located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Check out their web site. Another 40% will go to relief efforts in Dafur, Sudan, in consultation with the San Antonio Interfaith Darfur Coalition. The remaining 20% will fund events where discussion and guidance on conflict resolution will take place. A pilot program will have two such events just before the October 2008 Presbytery meeting. See the article above.

Encourage your congregation to give generously.