Presbytery News

IPC English Presbytery met on Saturday in Ealing.

Graham Weeks is the new moderator and Joel Rinn is the new clerk. John Scott was visiting us as a representative from EPCEW.
These are some of the decisions that were made

• Doug Curry was examined by Presbytery for him to be installed as the minister of Liss IPC. The previous day he had been examined by the Candidates and Credentials committee and they recommended him. A vote was taken on the day and Doug was approved.
• There was some musical chairs on the committees. Paul Meiners is now chairman of the Candidates and Credentials committee which examines people who become elders/ church planters/ ministers. With Alan Waldecker being back in the US Tom Nachtergaele was nominated to be chair of the committee and Pete Harris was also appointed to the committee. Paul Levy is now the church relations co-ordinator, it was decided at present there was no need for a committee.
• There will be a conference of European Reformed Churches in Holland in 4-7 November run by ICRC and John Scott extended a welcome for us to attend.
• Doug Curry was appointed Prayer secretary to gather in and send out prayer requests for the presbytery once a month.
• There was some debate over who actually is a voting member of Presbytery and so the BCO committee (Book of Church Order) are going to report back with a list!!

Presbytery Dates for 2008

Saturday March 1st - Held in Liss
Synod will take place on Friday evening of June 6th at Kingston Korean Church.
Saturday June 7th (finishing at 1pm) will be Presbytery in Ealing
Saturday September 13th in Ealing
December 5/6 in Belgium

Presbytery

The next Presbytery is on Saturday 1st December - any offers of beds to put people up would be appreciated.

Presbytery and Synod dates

Synod will meet on Saturday 2nd June at Kingston Korean Presbyterian Church. There will also be a Presbytery meeting on that afternoon.

Presbytery will meet on Saturday 9th September and Saturday 2nd December - both of these will be held at Ealing IPC.

Presbytery News

Some news from Presbytery which took place last Saturday.

3 people were examined for eldership.

Murat Ozertiken who is working in Belgium church planting amongst Turks.
Chris Hatch who is working with New Life Masih Ghar in Southall.
Jonny Long who is being co-opted onto the session of Grace Fellowship, Warrington.
Results of the ballots should be in on Saturday.

In the afternoon Pete Harris an Englishman spoke about plans that he and others have to plant reformed and presbyterian churches in the UK. Redeemer Church in New York are going to help fund this. It was extremely encouraging to hear of possibilities for church planting.

Alan Waldecker and Bill Nikides reported on a conference they had spoken at in the US. There are ongoing discussions with some churches from the PCA regarding the possibility of funding for workers and church plants.

Gideon Song from Azerbaijan was at presebytery for the first time since transferring to us. We were also joined by Neal Williams , an American who is planning to move to Baku this summer . There are ongoing problems with the government registering this church .

Kim Song, afounding father of Korean Churches in the UK, has returned from Korea. He spoke about the possibilities of working more closely with the Korean Presbytery. He also told presbytery of a number of IPC Korean elders who have returned to Korea and plan to plant an IPC church in Korea.

All in all it was a very encouraging day. We had representatives from Italy, Romania, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Turkey, Korea, US and UK. It is s exciting to be part of Presbytery at the moment but there are real challenges ahead. Our next meeting is Synod with our Korean brothers on Saturday June 2nd. Pray for us

Presbytery website

The IPC Presbytery website is now online. There's only about 25% complete but the church consitution, bookof church order and 2 articles on IPC the Past and IPC the future are on there which may interest some.