An Online Healthy Boundary Training through the Convergence Learning Platform FaithLead will be available in an on-demand format by which clergy and educators can access the course 24/7 and complete it at their own pace.  On average most participants finish within 2 weeks while fitting the trainings into full work weeks.

The five- unit course covers Healthy Boundaries in these areas:

• Pastoral Relationships with Adults
• Pastoral Relationships with Church Finances
• Pastoral Self-Care
• Pastoral Relationships with Youth and Children
• Pastoral Relationships with Social Media

Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate. Please send certificate to Dina Bickel dbickel@thepresbytery.org

Presbyterian Polity: Organizing and Making Decisions with Energy, Intelligence, Imagination, and Love – Led by Rev. David Baer, NCP Stated Clerk and the Rev. John Molina-Moore, General Presbyter
God is up to something, and it’s the church’s job to discern, follow, and lead people in God’s mission! Come and learn the basics of governance in the congregation, and leave equipped with tools to help your church stay focused and faithful.
Saturday, April 27, 2024 – 10:00 am. – Zoom

Link to attend: https://thepresbytery.zoom.us/j/82205462414

*Registration is not required.

An Online Healthy Boundary Training through the Convergence Learning Platform FaithLead will be available in an on-demand format by which clergy and educators can access the course 24/7 and complete it at their own pace.  On average most participants finish within 2 weeks while fitting the trainings into full work weeks.

The five- unit course covers Healthy Boundaries in these areas:

• Pastoral Relationships with Adults
• Pastoral Relationships with Church Finances
• Pastoral Self-Care
• Pastoral Relationships with Youth and Children
• Pastoral Relationships with Social Media

Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate. Please send certificate to Dina Bickel dbickel@thepresbytery.org

Over 45 of our 103 congregations have participated in a congregational CAT.  Your participation is providing real time data that informs us what support and skills are useful for specific congregations.  AND as you take the Landscape Survey, this will provide the Presbytery real time data as to how to best organize our budget and committees.

After Easter, NCP and the CAT Team interpreters will provide a Three-Part Series on what to do with your CAT!

April 8, May 13, June 10 – Monday nights at 7pm – 8pm on ZOOM

Topics will be:

• Hospitality Plan! Data is reflecting our faithful congregations are mid to lower in their energy and satisfaction around hospitality and welcome.  This is also one of the quickest fixes. WE will guide how to make and update a HOSPITALITY PLAN!  Every church deserves to have one.
• Vitality Paralysis. Maybe we have too many options and not enough energy?  This session will focus on how to wade through the data with MissionInsite as it relates to Missional and Religious Preferences
• Spiritual Vitality! It will not necessarily grow your membership BUT it does affect your volunteer and financial impact.  We will focus on how this matters for the whole IMPACT of your local congregation and community.
• BONUS in-person session on April 27^th! Leadership Training Event.  Data is reflecting through low trust in Governance, Leadership, and high anxiety of Conflict we have to be more present and effective for HARD CONVERSATIONS.  Join trained facilitators through Dialogue for Peaceful Change as some team building models are shared.

Even if your congregation has yet to participate in a CAT yet, since 2020, you are welcome to join these sessions as we hope they will share the good news of how we are all connected in impact and growth opportunities for each congregation.  These sessions are provided thanks to your contributions to Unified Mission.  Please do register so that you are able to receive reminders of each session.

Register here.

Using AI in Stewardship
Hosted by the Stewardship Committee of NCP
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 11:00 am
via Zoom

This talk will overview recent developments in the field of AI by showing specific examples of how it can be used for stewardship. The goal of the talk is to provide an orientation to generative AI, as well as background about why it has developed so rapidly in the last year. The main focus will be on specific examples and use cases that illustrate some of the new ways AI is being used to generate text, images, music and video. Though the talk will cover some theoretical subjects, the main goal is to empower the audience to get started or go deeper in using AI for practical purposes. No previous background or experience is necessary.

Here for flyer.

An Online Healthy Boundary Training through the Convergence Learning Platform FaithLead will be available in an on-demand format by which clergy and educators can access the course 24/7 and complete it at their own pace.  On average most participants finish within 2 weeks while fitting the trainings into full work weeks.

The five- unit course covers Healthy Boundaries in these areas:

• Pastoral Relationships with Adults
• Pastoral Relationships with Church Finances
• Pastoral Self-Care
• Pastoral Relationships with Youth and Children
• Pastoral Relationships with Social Media

Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate. Please send certificate to Dina Bickel dbickel@thepresbytery.org

Over 45 of our 103 congregations have participated in a congregational CAT.  Your participation is providing real time data that informs us what support and skills are useful for specific congregations.  AND as you take the Landscape Survey, this will provide the Presbytery real time data as to how to best organize our budget and committees.

After Easter, NCP and the CAT Team interpreters will provide a Three-Part Series on what to do with your CAT!

April 8, May 13, June 10 – Monday nights at 7pm – 8pm on ZOOM

Topics will be:

• Hospitality Plan! Data is reflecting our faithful congregations are mid to lower in their energy and satisfaction around hospitality and welcome.  This is also one of the quickest fixes. WE will guide how to make and update a HOSPITALITY PLAN!  Every church deserves to have one.
• Vitality Paralysis. Maybe we have too many options and not enough energy?  This session will focus on how to wade through the data with MissionInsite as it relates to Missional and Religious Preferences
• Spiritual Vitality! It will not necessarily grow your membership BUT it does affect your volunteer and financial impact.  We will focus on how this matters for the whole IMPACT of your local congregation and community.
• BONUS in-person session on April 27^th! Leadership Training Event.  Data is reflecting through low trust in Governance, Leadership, and high anxiety of Conflict we have to be more present and effective for HARD CONVERSATIONS.  Join trained facilitators through Dialogue for Peaceful Change as some team building models are shared.

Even if your congregation has yet to participate in a CAT yet, since 2020, you are welcome to join these sessions as we hope they will share the good news of how we are all connected in impact and growth opportunities for each congregation.  These sessions are provided thanks to your contributions to Unified Mission.  Please do register so that you are able to receive reminders of each session.

Register here.