Regional meetings with clerks of sessions to review, with the the stated clerk of presbytery, minutes of session and congregational meetings for the past year the weekend of October 17.

These meetings will be Saturday and Sunday, October 17 and 18 in Baker City, LaGrande, and Hermiston. Confirmed are

Baker City
10:00 AM, Saturday, October 17
First Presbyterian Church
1995 Fourth Street

Hermiston
2:30 PM, Sunday, October 18
Faith Presbyterian Church
1005 SE 9th Street

LaGrande
1:30 PM, Saturday October 17
First Presbyterian Church

The Presbytery of Eastern Oregon guidelines for session and congregational minutes is at http://bit.ly/11eKMx

A manual for clerks of session is at http://bit.ly/cWYxk

PC(USA) guidance to congregations on dealing with the H1N1 Swine flu. This was published in the spring of 2009. http://bit.ly/Sw68t

Presbyterian Church's Synod Pacific's new site to connect donors to mission explained 9/24 10:00 PDT http://bit.ly/rDxZq register here and follow the instructions on the email you will receive

Presbytery Meeting October 23-24
First Presbyterian Church
Lostine, Oregon

The next presbytery meeting will be October 23 and 24 in Lostine.

Information for the meeting is being posted on Google Docs. Return to the site as new material is posted.

I look forward to seeing you in Lostine.

Summaries of the September 12 Presbytery Council meeting are available on Google Docs in .pdf and documents formats. See the index of council meeting material here.

The Special Committee to Study Issues of Civil Union and Christian Marriage to the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has released its Daft of Preliminary Report.

That draft report is at
http://www.pcusa.org/oga/newsstories/final-prelim-report-civil-union-marriage-spec-cmte-091809.pdf

Responses can be sent electronically to civilunion.marriage@pcusa.org
or mailed to

Civil Union and Christian Marriage Committee
Office of the General Assembly
Room 4621
100 Witherspoon Street
Louisville, KY 40202-1396

The committee will meet in January to write its recommendations to the assembly.

Read more about the work of the committee at
http://www.pcusa.org/oga/newsstories/ga218-spec-cmtes.htm#civil

Recommended insurance coverage for churches is available on Google Docs. This is text document so you may be able to download it without registering with Google.

Contact information for those who have expressed interest in serving the insurance needs of the Eastern Oregon Presbytery;

Dawn St. Clair
PresbyterianOne Insurace
Heffernan Insurance Brokers
PO Box 69038
Portland, OR
Business: 800.208.6912 x204
Fax: 503.226.1478
dawns@heffins.com
www.presbyterianone.org

GuideOne Insurance
Doug Bacon
950 W Ironwood Dr, Ste 6
Coeur D Alene, ID 83814-2644

(208) 664-6000‎

guideone.com

UCC Insurance Board

Insurance Board
700 Prospect Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115

(800) 437-883

www.uccib.org

PC(USA) - Presbyterian News Service - Match point

PC(USA) - Presbyterian News Service - Match point

"Thank You's" received from PC(SAU GA Offices

Following the description of the presbytery in the Mission Yearbook of Prayer and Study, we received "thank you" cards from:
a. The six agencies of the PC(USA) [Presbyterian Investment and Loan Program, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, General Assembly Mission Council, Presbyterian Church (USA) Foundation, Board of Pensions, and Office of the General Assembly.
b. Presbyterian Peacemaking Program Staff.

Thanks to you, for all you do.

Pacific Mission Exchange about to launch

The newest project of the PC(USA) Synod of the Pacific designed to allow church members and others to support mission is the Pacific Mission Exchange www.pacificmissionexchange. Each of he 11 presbyteries of the Synod of the Pacific may enter mission projects of the presbytery or churches in the presbytery. These will be displayed to individuals and groups who wish to contribute to specific mission opportunities.

This new tool for communicating mission will be announced at an on-line press conference on Thursday, September 24 at 10:00 AM, Pacific time. For more details, see the press conference notice at bit.ly/3xnIAD. For more information contact Pete Wells, pwells@oregontrail.net or Kathy Trott, mission@pacificmissionexchange.org.

PC(USA) task force releases final draft report on new Form of Government

The reconstituted task force on the new Form of Government has released the final draft of their report. The final report will be presented to the General Assembly in Minneapolis, MN, July 3 to 10, 2010.

The report is available at the task force's web site.

The final report will be available to the churches by January 1.

Celebrate

The Mount Vernon Community Presbyterian Church is celebrating its centennial.

Sunday, September 13
Worship at 11:00 AM
Celebration to follow

Presbyery Council meeting Sept. 12, by phone

The presbytery council will meet by phone

Saturday, September 12
1:30 PM, Pacific Time
866-941-8436
The passcode is 1047005#

To read the call to meeting, agenda, or other information click here. You will be redirected to a Google Docs site. You will be able to read any of the documents. To download or print .pdf documents you will have to go to the presbytery web site or sign in with a free Google account.