CE/P: CE at a Glance, Jan04

January-February 2004 CE at a Glance
CE&P Ministry Updates
Equip Conferences | WIC Leadership Training | Children's Conference | BibleWorks
Upcoming Events

CE&P STAGES TWO EQUIP CONFERENCES

Christian Education and Publications regularly conducts training seminars across the PCA. Equip conferences, which present a variety of workshops, are usually Saturday events. They are either co-sponsored with a local presbytery.

Equip conferences are currently scheduled for January 24, 2004 and February 7, 2004. Trinity Presbyterian Church in Montgomery, Alabama, will host the January conference. Seven tracks of instruction and training will include: children’s ministry, women’s ministry, family ministry, officer training, youth ministry and seminars for those teaching adults. The faculty will include: CE&P staff members Richard Aeschliman, Robert Edmiston, and Sue Jakes and regional trainers Allen Curry and Priscilla Stewart. Kathy Cheely, former member of the Women’s Advisory Subcommittee, will conduct the women’s track.

Seminar topics will range from learning styles to kids in service to family worship and marriage. Speakers will discuss what it means to be a church officer, how to prepare a Bible study, and how to grow leaders. Analysis of a healthy women’s ministry and ways to partner with parents in youth ministry will also be offered. More specific information is available from the CE&P office or its website www.pcanet.org/cep.

The February conference will be in Waterloo, Illinois at the Concord Presbyterian Church. It will be jointly sponsored by CE&P, Great Commission Publications, and Illiana presbytery’s Christian education committee.

The faculty will include Barksdale Pullen, a CE&P regional trainer and member of the children’s ministry advisory subcommittee. Local pastor Will Hesterberg, a member of the CE&P permanent committee, will lead a multicultural track. Barry Henning will assist him with that track. CE&P staff will be represented by: Richard Aeschliman in the officer training track, Robert Edmiston with topics related to teaching the Bible, Dean Conkel leading on youth ministry in the local church, and Charles Dunahoo, CE&P Coordinator, with the Kingdom framework for making disciples.

Contact Jamie Brooke, CE&P’s event coordinator, at 678-825-1132 or visit our website listed above. CE&P is available for other Equip conferences in your area. Contact Robert Edmiston, coordinator of training at 678.825.1156 or redmiston@pcanet.org. The costs of the conferences are $25, which includes lunch and a one-year subscription to Equip for Ministry, CE&P’s bimonthly magazine.

2004 WIC Leadership Conference

The 2004 WIC Leadership Training will be held February 26-29 at the Atlanta Airport Marriott Hotel for PresWIC (Presbytery Women in the Church) leadership and the directors of women’s ministry. WIC Leadership Training 2004 is a by-invitation event for PresWIC leaders and women who serve on local church staffs with responsibility for ministry to women. A large reason for WIC’s successful ministry in the PCA has come from these annual training seminars. Ideas have been presented, discussed, and looked at from clearly biblical and practical standpoints. Networking, continuing education and good relationships have grown from these meetings.

There will be a rich slate of training and equipping speakers. Rev. Rick Tyson, pastor of Calvary PCA in Philadelphia and a member of the permanent CE&P Committee, will be the Sunday preacher at the conference. Susan Hunt, Rebecca Jones, Kathleen Nielson and Carol Ruvelo, all authors of women’s Bible studies, will be featured speakers. WIC trainers, other noted workshop leaders and CE&P regional trainers will bring added training and resources to the participants.

According to Jane Patete, CE&P’s WIC coordinator, this annual training event is sporting a new name and a new track. 2004 Leadership Training will offer a Bible study track to network, train and encourage PCA Bible study leaders through workshops, plenary sessions, and time to interface with speakers.

The purpose of this year’s training event will be threefold:

To equip PresWIC leadership to pass on a biblical legacy of leadership to future generations.
To equip Bible study leaders to pass on that legacy through the teaching of the Word.
To develop leaders of women who build future generations to think and live biblically.

The annual 2003 Love Gift check will be presented to Reformed University Ministries on Friday evening. Mission to North America, the 2004 Love Gift recipient, will host the dinner and introduce their project to those present.

CE&P expects around 200 participants for the training event, coming from each PCA presbytery, as well as a number from local churches.

Sixth Annual Children's Ministry Conference

CE&P will host the sixth annual Children’s Ministry Conference on April 19-21 at Emerald Pointe Resort and Conference Center at Lake Lanier Islands, Georgia for those involved in children’s ministry. Over 200 attendees are expected to take part in this three-day conference from across the PCA. Children’s ministry coordinator Sue Jakes states the conference purpose: “To reach the next generation, we must be a strong church filled with strong families. We want to encourage the leadership as well as the parents and teachers to focus on…‘Discipling God’s Covenant People.’”

The children’s conference will include five tracks:

1. Involving church leadership in children’s ministry.

2. Training the home at church to train the church at home.

3. Nursery: the need for strong beginnings.

4. Discipling covenant children—Expecting a young generation of true disciples.

5. Discipling the disciplers.

The featured speakers for the conference will be: Dr. Edmund Clowney, former president of Westminster Theological Seminary and current theologian in residence at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Virginia, Dr. Stephen Smallman, senior pastor of New Life Northeast Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and Mr. Eric Wallace, president and director of the Institute for Uniting Church and Home.

Seminars and workshops on a variety of topics will be available, as well as time for sharing, building relationships and exchanging ideas. The location is on the shores of Georgia’s most scenic lake, Lake Lanier, and will provide a setting for relaxation, training, and opportunities for mutual encouragement.

CE&P expects to present two new resources at the April conference: a PCA Children’s Ministry Manual and Teach Me to Worship, a manual designed to aid parents and teachers in the training of children in worship. Participants will have an opportunity to examine Sunday school curriculum from Great Commission Publications materials, the publishing ministry of the PCA. Many of Christian Education and Publications’ staff and regional trainers will be present for interaction with the participants.

New Version of BibleWorks Software

(Norfolk, VA)- The makers of BibleWorks, a biblical exegesis and research software program, have announced the launch of version 6.0, offering several new tools and databases aimed at those who want to develop greater proficiency in the original languages.

BibleWorks is a Bible concordance and morphological analysis program available on the Windows platform.

The new version features the addition of a flash card and diagramming tool to help in the learning of Greek and Hebrew. In addition, BibleWorks 6 also includes a basic Hebrew grammar; Gesenius' Hebrew grammar; and Burton’s Moods and Tenses of New Testament Greek. There is also a full set of Greek and Hebrew paradigms linked to the resource center so a user can see the appropriate paradigm for a Greek or Hebrew word under the mouse cursor. Other enhancements allow users to:

· Set the color and text attributes of selected text;

· Compare multiple versions and display the differences in colors of your choice. Multiple sets of versions can be compared in this way;

· Open a new copy of BibleWorks with just a click of the mouse, transferring all Command Center settings, word lists, hit highlighting, and verse settings;

· Pass the mouse cursor over a word and instantly see simple definitions and parsing information in a floating window above each Hebrew Old Testament or Greek New Testament word;

· Discover mistake-free morphology code assistance. A morphology tip list opens as you type showing you the available code options.

A number of resources have also been added to assist those studying the original Greek and Hebrew texts. New add-on modules are available, including Daniel Wallace’s Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, Mark Futato’s Beginning Biblical Hebrew; Waltke and O’Connor’s Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax; and the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts. Each requires BibleWorks 6 and is purchased separately).

BibleWorks continues to offer more than ninety Bibles in twenty-nine languages, plus a host of lexicons, Bible dictionaries, Bible encyclopedia, reference works and morphological analysis tools. BibleWorks is available from the CE&P Bookstore at 1.800.283.1357 or www.cepbookstore.com.

Upcoming Events

2003-2004 CE&P Conference Schedule


January 24	Equip Conference Montgomery, AL
February 7, 2004	Equip Conference, Waterloo, IL
February 27-29, 2004	WIC Leadership Training Seminar Atlanta, GA
April 20-22, 2004	Children's Ministry Conference Atlanta, GA

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