9/1-9/30 September is Hunger Action Month
10/4 Commission on Minstry 4:00 at Green Acres
10/6 Congregational Vitality Team 1:00 via Zoom
10/7 Council, Commission, Committee, Ministry Team Reports for October PEVA meeting due
10/10 Council 1:00 TBD
10/12 Board of Trustees 1:00 via Zoom
10/14 PEVA meeting packet posted by 5 p.m.
10/17 CPJ's Racial Dialogue Team 6:30 via Zoom
10/18 Commission on Preparation for Ministry 9:30 via Zoom
10/25 131^stStated Meeting of PEVA

"We build bridges across divides

to deepen connection to Christ

and one another to serve the world."

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Oct. STATED MEETING

The next stated meeting of the Presbytery of Eastern Virginia will be on

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

begining at 10:00 a.m. at Bethany Presbyterian Church, Zuni, VA. This will be in person.

PDA - Responding

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance visted Eastern Kentucky

and the people impacted by the floods.

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Next Qrtly. Webinar

The next quarterly webinar from the Congregational Vitality Team will be on Tuesday, 11/8/2022.

THE TOPIC AND SPEAKER WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON

BECOME A MATTHEW 25 CHURCH

We are called to actively engage in the world around us, so our faith comes alive and we wake up to new possibilities. We are invited to act boldly and compassionately to serve people who are hungry, oppressed, imprisoned or poor. Join in with our brothers and sisters and we can help our denomination (PCUSA) be a more relevant, unified presence in the world. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE. Exciting news First PC Hampton, First United PC, King's Grant PC, Saint Andrew PC, Suffolk PC and New Horizons PC are Matthew 25 churches within PEVA.

PEVA's Congregational Vitality, Hunger & Peacemking Teams encourages PEVA churches to become a Matthew 25 Church. If our presbytery has 20% or more of our congregations become Matthew 25 churches and embrace these areas of focus we are a creififed Matthew 25 Presbytery. Let's be the church together as we are called to do.

A Message from PMA: A new video has been released that share a powerful story about two churches who answered the Matthew 25 invitation to focus on racism and poverty and its impact on their congregational vitality. It models a way to address difficult topics from a place of grace and reconciliation. The CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO DOWNLOAD

There are 74 Presbyteries (45%), 10 Synods (77%), 1000 Congregations (11%) and 51 other groups through out PCUSA that have committed to and embrace these areas of focus Building Congregational Vitality, Dismantling Structural Racism and Eradicating Systemic Poverty.

***Resource for the 2022-23 Revised Common Lectionary Year A is for preachers and musicians planning worship in light of the Matthew 25 vision Looking ahead to ‘A Year with Matthew for a Matthew 25 Church’ ***

Confirmation for the Matthew 25 Congregation: Commissioned to Change the World

Guide looks at films that can be of help for a church wanting to enhance its congregational vitality “Engaging Matthew 25 Through Film – Building Congregational Vitality” is a video guide that helps the reader answer the question: What is congregational vitality?