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| Welcome to Cherokee Presbytery’s PW Website! |
| The Cherokee Presbytery PW Coordinating Team stands ready to support and assist our local churches in any way possible. Every church - from the smallest to the largest - has its own unique flavor of PW yet we are united through common study, service, fellowship and nurture. The tie that binds us is our love of God and our fellow sisters in Christ. It is our goal to keep you abreast of Synod, Presbytery, and local church PW news so that we all may feel connected to the larger Church as Presbyterian Women. Please feel free to contact any PWCT team member with joys, concerns, and suggestions as together we delight in serving the Lord. Our PWCT meetings will be held at the Presbytery Office in Cartersville at 9:30 AM on these designated dates: July 19, 2008 and September 20, 2008. |
| May your time shared as PW be a blessing to you and yours! |
| Yours in Christ, |
| Barbara Elliott, |
| Cherokee Presbytery PW Moderator |
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| Click Here For the July 2008 issue of the PW Cherokee Signal |
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| Dates to remember |
| June 10 Birthday Offering due to Harriette Majoros, CPPW Treasurer |
| June 21-27 PC(USA) General Assembly meeting |
| July 19 PWCT meeting in Cartersville, 9:30 AM |
| July 28-Aug.1 Alpharetta PC hosts Study course for Horizon 2008-09 Luke series/Rebecca Parker |
| Aug.4-6 Columbia Seminary hosts Study for Horizon 2008-09 Luke series/Dale Lindsay Morgan |
| Aug.8-9 Columbia Seminary hosts Study for Horizon 2008-09 Luke series/Rebecca Parker |
| August 16 Fall Leadership Event at Trinity Presbyterian in Atlanta |
| August 26 Presbytery meeting 5:30 at Summerville Presbyterian Church |
| Sept. 20 PWT meeting in Cartersville, 9:30 AM |
| Oct. 17-19 Cherokee Presbytery PW Spiritual Retreat with Rev. April Love Fordham |
| Red Top Mountain State Park near Cartersville. |
| March 14, 2009 PW Gathering at Cherokee Retreat Center |
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Bible Study for 2008-2009 You can order it online at http://www.pcusa.org/horizons/bible.htm
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| 2008 Cherokee Presbytery PW Officers - Click Here |
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| PW BIRTHDAY OFFERING |
| In celebration of PW Mission, our 2008 Birthday Offering is now being received by our local churches across Cherokee Presbytery. The goal, $1.2 million, will be used to fund our two 2008 grant recipients. Thank you for helping us to reach our goal. The suggested gift is 10 cents per year of life or $10 to keep the secret! Please send your Birthday Offering to Cherokee PW Treasurer Harriette Majoros by June 10th. Two very special organizations will benefit from our gifts. Lakeview Presbyterian Church Weekday School in New Orleans will receive funds to rebuild their childcare center which was destroyed in 2005 during Katrina. The Presbyterian Church of Congo and Kinshasa will receive funds to replace 19 roofs, build 5 new structures and supply teachers with textbooks and teaching supplies. The Congo churches will also use monies to fund promotion and distribution of the Moringa Tree, a miracle plant that is being used to combat malnutrition. In just nine months, the leaves, roots and bark of the Moringa Tree is |
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| MARCH 2009 GATHERING will be held on March 14th at Cherokee Retreat Center. SAVE the DATE and JOIN US! |
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| Training Sessions for Teachers of 2008-09 Horizon’s Study of LUKE |
| Please note that Alpharetta PC and Columbia Theological Seminary are hosting PW Bible Study Courses for the coming Horizon series on Luke – JUBILEE! LUKE’S GOSPEL FOR THE POOR. Deadline for registration is mid-July. Visit www.ctsnet.edu/lifelong/index.asp. for more information. Study Books can be ordered by calling 800/624-2612 or through the Horizons website: www.pcusa.org/horizons |
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| PW RETREAT IS COMING!! OCT. 17- 19, 2008 |
| Sarita Jones, Melissa Sampson, and Sandra Marin, 3 young women in our PWCT, are organizing and coordinating plans for our PW Spiritual Fall retreat which will be held Oct. 17-19 at Red Top Mountain State Park. It will be wonderful!! The latest news is that Rev. April Love Fordham from Calvary Presbyterian Church in Marietta will be our Retreat Leader. She’ll announce her theme very soon. Please make plans now to attend this spiritually uplifting weekend with PW friends from across Cherokee Presbytery. |
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| PW CELEBRATES 20th ANNIVERSARY |
| How will you commemorate PW’s 20th Anniversary this year at your church? Please consider a special gift to the Moringa Tree Project - Cherokee PW’s Major Mission focus for 2008. Each part of this tree costing $1 offers multi-vitamins and minerals to people suffering from malnutrition and saves lives! |
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| PW $$ MATTERS |
| Our Cherokee Presbytery PW Treasurer, Harriette Majoros, requests that all financial matters be directed to her home address at: 3450 Brookhill Circle, Marietta, GA 30062. |
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| PW MISSION |
| Thanks to Rockmart Presbyterian Church for their mission work in collecting 5 boxes of sheets, baby layette items and baby kits. These items will sent to Church World Services (CWS) in New Windsor, Maryland where they will be distributed by Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA). In this time when so many tragedies are affecting millions of people, we thank Rockmart Presbyterian Church for their personal care. |
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| CHURCH WORLD SERVICE DELIVERY |
| Dee Allison, a member of John Knox Presbyterian Church, is driving to Maryland in July and has offered to take any CWS mission items which we have collected. If you as an individual or your church wishes to assemble school kits, health kits, or baby kits, please consider doing so by July 1 so that Dee can also take your items free of charge. Thank you, Dee, for your generous offer. Contact Jan Boehm, Cherokee Mission Coordinator, at 770-431-6880, or Barbara Elliott, Cherokee Moderator, 706-506-2499 if you have items you wish to donate. |
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| CHEROKEE PW MISSION OPPORTUNITIES |
| Jan Boehm, Cherokee PW Mission Coordinator, recently highlighted five PW projects which Cherokee Presbytery PWCT would encourage our local churches to consider: |
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| 1) Gift of the Heart PDA Kits – School kits, health kits, Hope in a Box, Baby kit and Clean up kit. Brochures are available describing each kit. School Kits are urgently needed at this time. School kit includes: 6 pencils, 1 sharpener, 1 big eraser, 12"ruler, box of 24 crayons, blunt scissors, pkg of 150 sheet notebook paper, and 12 sheets of colored construction paper. ONGOING request. |
| 2) Sheets, Sheets, Sheets – any size, any color, new or used in good condition. |
| These are sorely needed by the local mission hospitals in Africa. ONGOING request. |
| 3) NetWorkers Mosquito Nets - Malaria is the #1 killer in Africa. A $10 donation buys an insecticide treated mosquito net for a new mother and child in Africa. The donation can be made in honor or in memory of a special person and a card is provided to send to the friend noting the donation. This is a joint project between PW and International Health Ministries. ONGOING request. |
| 4) Moringa Tree - This is a PC(USA) and Medical Benevolence program in the Congo to fight malnutrition. The tree has ‘miracle’ leaves, flowers, pods, seed and roots which are ground into powder and used as a nutritional supplement to boost traditional Congolese dishes with amazing results. Malnutrition rates are drastically reduced. Cost of tree is $1 and it’s ready to harvest in 9 months. ONGOING request. |
| 5) Palm Project – Our newest PW Woman to Woman project offers the Congolese people a new improved variety of palm tree from Costa Rica. Palm oil is a valuable substance taken from palm trees for important nutritional and economic purposes. It is in high demand as an export and offers much needed revenue for the people. It is low growing so women and children can harvest it easily. This new variety of tree produces three times the amount of oil as former trees and a harvest from grove of trees can support an entire village. A $20 donation buys 10 trees. NEW request. |
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| All Gifts to these projects can be directed through CPPW Treasurer, Harriette Majoros, 3450 Brookhill, Marietta, GA 30062. Please make checks out to CPPW. |
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| SYNOD LEADERS from CHEROKEE PRESBYTERY |
| Sue Spivey (Summerville) was installed as Vice Moderator of the Synod PW at the gathering at Epworth. Erma Jones (John Knox) is finishing up her term as Nominations Chair. Eva Whitaker (Covenant) is finishing up her term as Treasurer. Rev. Julia Wiley, Woodstock PC Minister, led the service of Installation. |
| Our deepest sympathy goes to SUE SPIVEY in the loss of her beloved husband, DR. HERMAN SPIVEY on June 9th . He was a physician for 47 years, an Elder and Sunday School teacher at Summerville Presbyterian Church, and a devoted family man and servant to the Church and community. |
| Please keep ERMA JONES in your prayers as she serves Cherokee Presbytery as a voting delegate to the General Assembly June 21-28. |
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| RISING COST OF LIFETIME MEMBER PINS |
| Twenty years ago when the PW Lifetime Member pin was introduced, it cost $75. In 2008 the cost of the pin rose for the first time. It is now $95. A gold pin has been introduced and it is now available for $295. Please consider submitting your request to honor an outstanding PW. The monies received for Lifetime Membership go to fund PW educational events. |
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