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Synod Benefits Service
Reliance Standard has extended the offering of Critical Illness Insurance and Accident Insurance group plans to Synod of the Pacific's Church Benefit Participants to a new effective date of March 1, 2012! Please see quick overview of plans being offered.
For more details on plans being offered and the final date for receiving Reliance Standard enrollment forms, click on the "Benefits" tab at the top of this page. Please feel free to contact the Synod's Benefit Coordinator at (800) 754-0669 or by email at melinda@synodpacific.org with any questions.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR POSITION
Sound View Camp, PC(USA), near Tacoma, WA is looking for an Assistant Director with a heart for God’s work in community and a lifestyle that reflects their mission of “God’s Kingdom First.”
This position will help develop, recruit and train staff as well as manage summer camps, off-season conferences, and program activities for guest groups. The Assistant Director will also run Sound View’s challenge course and oversee other camp activities such as waterfront, paintball, archery, arts and crafts, etc. Other responsibilities include overseeing the maintenance of program equipment and facilities. They are accepting resumes until February 15, 2012. Please check their Open Job Postings page for job description and more information.
Synod Partnership Approves Grant for London Ministry
Most of us have never heard of a small town named London, California. But if you had, you would also hear about a ministry there called the London Ministries. London Ministries is directed by a missionary from Dinuba Presbyterian Church, Matt Naylor.
London Ministries has been fundraising while searching for a location. Recently they found a house to purchase, and with the support of the Presbytery of San Joaquin and two churches, they requested funds from the Synod's Emerging Needs and Opportunity Grant funds. The Synod Mission Partnership Committee approved both grant requests totaling $25,000.
The new "Discipleship House" will be a multifaceted ministry focused on the discipleship and mentoring of young men. It will provide an intentional, live-in discipleship community for a few men who are activily futhering their education, vocational and spiritual lives in Christ Jesus.
Matt is also planning for a special "Christmas Store" to be open for a day, in the soon to be completed Thrift Store building. Parents will be allowed to come to the store and buy presents for their children for $1.00 per gift.
Matt is hoping for donations of:
- 400 new, unwrapped gifts for boys and girls, ages 4 - 11
- New sweatshirts for teenages in S, M, and L sizes. Please no red or blue.
If you would like to contribute to this ministry, please bring gifts and sweatshirts to the Presbytery Office, 438 S. Locust Street, Visalia, or call the office at (559) 362-3624, to make arrangements for pick-up. Items are needed by December 15th.
Thank you as you work to make Christmas meaningful for many in your own communities as you include Jeasus in your gifts.
Sandy Brown, Presbytery of San Joaquin
Job Opportunity in Presbytery of Sacramento
The Presbytery of Sacramento is now seeking a Minutes Clerk who is supervised by the Stated Clerk. The Minutes Clerk is to be present to take and prepare the minutes of all meetings of the presbytery, the presbytery “council,” and the presbytery’s Committee on Ministry. This person will be paid at an hourly rate, with travel expenses also paid.
Anyone interested in this position should contact the chair of the Personnel Committee, Al Bare, (916) 726-5749; email to abare@thebares.com.
Investment and Loan Services' Rates
New Rates as of 08/01/2011
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Investment Account Rates Custodial Accounts 2.750% Mission Development Certificates: 6 - month - 3.250% 1 - Year - 3.500% 2 - Year - 3.700% 3 - Year - 3.900% |
Loans Rates Amortized 6.000 - 5.250%* Line of Credit 6.250 - 5.500%* Muzzy (new loans) 5.000 - 4.250%* Insurance 2.000% * A discount of up to .750% is given based on Mission Giving history |
2012 Per Capita Rates
$5.22 - Synod ($.05 increase is being held for Cascades Presbytery to host the 2016 General Assembly)
$6.63 - General Assembly
