You are invited to attend the Installation Service of the Reverend Brett Jeffery Swanson to the position of Associate Pastor for Boulevard Presbyterian Church

Sunday, October 28, 2007
3:00 pm

Boulevard Presbyterian Church
1235 Northwest Blvd.
Columbus, OH 43212

Reverend Doctor Dean K. Thompson , President of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, will be delivering the sermon entitled, “Don’t Forget to Remember”

For directions or questions please contact the Boulevard Church Office at 614.486.0267 or email rev.brett@blvdchurch.org

(Download printable flyer)

Boulevard Presbyterian Church and the Presbytery of Scioto Valley will be hosting the Reverend Matthew Doleak, a Mission to the USA partner from Ethiopia, from October 7th until November 13th.

Rev. Doleak is a father of 6. He serves as a Synod official from the Gambella region which covers the border between Ethiopia and Sudan and can boast well over 67,000 members in 122 different churches.

Matthew will be serving as a missionary to the community and congregation of Boulevard Presbyterian Church but we would like to have as many churches impacted by Matthew’s witness.

If your church has activities going on during the week or on Sunday evening that would be appropriate for Matthew to visit please contact Rev. Brett Swanson at Boulevard Presbyterian Church (rev.brett@blvdchurch.org or call 614.486.0267) Matthew has expressed interest in making contact with members of the Sudanese community and would appreciate any information that you might provide.

NOTE: The information from this post is also available in a PDF flyer suitable for printing.

God With Us: Discernment

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Boulevard Presbyterian Church
1235 Northwest Blvd., Columbus, OH

What is God calling you to do? Are you listening?

Come learn to discern!

Learn about…

The theological background of discernment
* Spiritual practices of prayer and meditation
* Discerning for groups and individuals
* Resources, books, and more!

Our retreat leader:

Tim Jones received his Masters in Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary in 1965 and his Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick in 1978. After serving churches and presbyteries in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, he retired in 2005.

He continues to serve the church as a consultant for conflicted churches, mission studies and planning. He also teaches Interim training for the denomination at Pittsburgh Seminary and Austin Presbyterian Seminary.

He has led over 100 retreats in the areas of spirituality and discernment. Tim currently is serving as the interim pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Grove City, Ohio.

Registration
Due by Sunday, October 21, 2007.
A registration fee of $20 per person will be due by the beginning of the retreat.

Boxed lunches & drinks will be provided.

Please make checks out to Boulevard Presbyterian Church and put “retreat” in the For/Memo line.

Questions can be directed to Brett Swanson at 614.486.0267 or rev.brett@blvdchurch.org.

The 200th meeting of the Presbytery of Scioto Valley was highlighted by worship led by the Rev. Carol Wickersham, from the Presbytery of Lakes and Prairies. She challenged the Presbytery to think about peace also to work for it in large and small activities.

New pastors, James Gear (Columbus Brookwood), Leigh Holder-Bobo (Columbus Hoge Memorial), and Michael Phillips (Washington Court House First) were introduced.

At the request of the Presbytery of San Jose, Brett Swanson (pictured) was examined and approved for ordination. He has been called to be associate pastor at the Columbus Boulevard church.

In other pastoral transitions, Charlotte O’Neil has moved from 1/2 to 3/4 time at Delaware Old Stone and Donald Coleman has become associate pastor at Delaware Liberty. New interims are Tim Jones at Grove City First, Alex McDougall at Galloway, and Paul Van Horn at Nelsonville First. Jeff Connar will serve as commissioned lay pastor at Columbus Calvin, Dwayne Lee will serve as CLP at Frankfort First, and Linda Plummer will add Oak Hill Horeb to her CLP duties at Oak Hill Bethel. Marian Redding is now stated supply pastor at Iberia. November 1st will see Jeffrey De Yoe begin as pastor at Worthington and Stuart Ritter become interim at Columbus Broad Street. Phil Hazelton and Rawley Boone were granted honorably retired status.

The proposal from the Mt. Gilead church, presented in September 2006 and postponed to this meeting, asked that the Presbytery take the position that “compliance with the standards for ordination adopted by the whole church in the Book of Order is an essential of Reformed polity” was defeated.

The mission partnerships report noted that the major upcoming activity will the week-long Presbytery’s joining in the Mission Challenge ‘07. Ted Wright, area coordinator for central and southern Africa, will be in the Presbytery October 20-26th andz will meet at area gatherings, including Presbyterian Women and Hanging Rock.

The Presbytery Resource Center was granted permission to proceed with the organization of a partnership network of Presbytery Resource Centers in Ohio, in the Synod of the Covenant.

A well done video presentation on the Youth Triennium was presented.

A lay pastors class of 4 Presbyterians and 3 UCCs were welcomed at the September 2007 Presbytery Meeting.

This marks the completion of our first class partnering with our United Church of Christ colleagues.

The Trustees announced that they had concurred with the Committee On Ministry oversight committee for Worthington Highlands to grant the church $30,000 for September 2007 through August 2008 and not do the projected funding for the third year of the original plan.

A motion was referred to Presbytery Council to have the presbytery meetings scheduled at the same time on consistent dates.

CORRECTION: The next presbytery meeting will be at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Columbus on Tuesday, November 20, at 10 a.m.