Registration will begin at 9:00am (ET).
The packet, driving directions, and the minutes from the December meeting are now available for download from the assembly web page!
Sign up by April 1, 2014, and $350.00 will be subtracted from the price of your trip!
Explore Bethlehem, Jerusalem, The Mt of Olives. Walk the Via Dolorosa, visit the garden tomb, take a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee, see the Jordan River. October 21-30, 2014. Brad Napier, Pastor in the Presbytery of Ohio Valley is hosting this trip. Unpack once, stay at the guesthouse of the International Center of Bethlehem, in the heart of the town. Complete details at gtd.org or from Brad Napier or Jo Lucas.
The trip cost includes airfare, housing, meals, luggage handling, transfers, guides and is $3499.00. The trip offers time to explore the work at Dar al-Kalima School and University, worship at Christmas Lutheran Church and fellowship with the members there.
Walk the streets where Jesus was born and where Christians work and walk today.
Sign up by April 1 and $350.00 will be subtracted from the price of your trip.
Space limited. Early Bird Special
Sign up on line at Group Travel Directors, Group G#141006 or call/email Brad Napier, 812-528-0977 or call Kate Peer at 800-747-2255 (ext 134)
Have you ever thought about the fact that preaching is a two-way street? Do you wonder how that can be? Have you ever wished you could learn to speak in front of a group more confidently?
If so, the POV Academy May 16-17 class, “Preaching – A Two-Way Street,” is for you. It is open to ALL people participating in POV churches, but registration closes April 11, so you’ll need to hurry. Registration forms and details may be found on the POV Academy page of the POV website. They will also be available at the POV Assembly on March 29.
Sylvester Makobi, Director
Wilson Shitandi, Director
together with The International Vocal Ensemble
Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Katherine Strand, Director
Loida Pineda, Assistant Instructor
Present
Building Cultural Bridges through Music and Art
March 8, 2014 at 7:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, Bloomington Indiana
A note about Taifa Mziki:
Taifa Mziki was founded on 20th February 2010 by Collins Murambi and Sylvester Makobi who also serves as the group’s director. The name of the group means, ‘music which brings people together to make one nation.’ The group’s repertoire is mainly African pop music and folksongs arranged for male voices.
Being one of the best all male choral groups in Kenya, in 2012, the group participated in the first televised choir competition in East Africa, ‘The Kwaya,’ and thrilled fans due to their wonderful and creative performances. In 2011 the group was invited to perform during the premier of the International Student Film Festival held in Nairobi, Kenya. The group has also been performing in various corporate, state functions, and concerts.
Taifa Mziki members, most of them being University students, are involved in a choral music mentorship program in high schools in the country. Through this program, the group encourages young people to join or form choirs. The performances and workshops create a platform for the group to preach peace. The members of the group come from different ethnic communities and use the diversity as an opportunity to learn songs from different languages.
Taifa Mziki aims to be an ambassador of African Music.
From the Montreat website:
Some think the Bible concerns only humans and God. Yet from the first creation story to the end of Revelation, Scripture imagines a larger universe inhabited by other creatures besides ourselves. Genesis 1 shows God’s pleasure with the earth and all its species long before humans appear. Genesis 2 pictures humans made from the ground in order to serve and preserve God’s garden. The speeches of God in Job imagine nature as a wild place, barely understandable to people, yet adored by God. As we come to terms with our ecological limits, we can reignite the imagination to see more clearly our place in creation’s intricate web, to cherish more actively its delicate beauty, and to relish our responsibilities to treat life—human and other—with respect and awe. Enjoying the Eden of Montreat and listening to Scripture, we will explore a spirituality of grateful care, and of realistic hope for facing our generation’s ecological crises.
The class includes time for learning, group interaction, contemplation and exploration, and fellowship. The formal sessions are titled:
Patricia K. Tull is A. B. Rhodes Professor Emerita of Old Testament at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. She is the author of Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis (Westminster John Knox, 2013) and of the 2001-02 Horizons Bible Study Esther’s Feast. She writes for Thoughtful Christian, These Days, Horizons Magazine, Presbyterians Today, Christian Century, and other publications, and leads spiritual pilgrimages at home and abroad.
The cost is $390 for the program plus housing and meals at Montreat (single: $325.50; double: $205.50). See the retreat webpage for registration and more information.