Focus Registration: Our yearly Presbytery educational event with a choice of 25 workshops will be held on Saturday, October 2, at First Presbyterian Church, 4647 Preston Avenue in Pasadena. St. John’s Christian Education committee will pay registration fees for anyone who brings their application to the church office by September 1. If you are going to send in your registration form directly, you may register online or mail your application before September 15. Catalogues are available in Mary’s office.
St. John’s Holiday Schedule: St. John’s office and campus will be closed on Monday, September 6.
St. John’s Breakfast, Sunday September 11: Breakfast is served at 8 am, and at 8:30 Johnny Dyson will present his program, Life in a Putty Knife Factory, Adventures in and Around the Entertainment Business. The September breakfast is meeting on the second Saturday of the month due to the Labor Day holiday.
September 19, 3:30 pm Interfaith Service, McPhail Hall: All are invited to hear the Rev. Noelle Damico, National Coordinator of the PC(USA) Campaign for Fair Food, in a special service. Rev. Damico is coming from New York to help kickoff Human Trafficking Awareness Week in Houston.
Session Highlights – August 25, 2010 Meeting
1. The status of St. John’s as a Red Cross Shelter was sent back to the Outreach Committee for study and a recommendation for the future.
2. Reports were received on the status of renovations to Building Two.
3. Session approved Memorial Gifts Scholarships to Michael Leach and Jarrett Lindsey.
4. Brad Urquhart and Bill Ehrenstrom were elected Commissioners to the called Presbytery Meeting on September 9.
