Bruce Reyes-Chow

Bruce Reyes-Chow I have started a list of Presbyterian Church (USA) folks on twitter and it is almost up to 500 tweeps. If you check and you are not on it, drop me a reply and I'll add you. And of course, please pass on the link. http://twitter.com/breyeschow/i-heart-presbyterians

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Bruce Reyes-Chow
Over the past few weeks I have met with both the Committee on Local Arrangements (COLA) in Minneapolis and the meeting arrangements staff of the Office of the General Assembly...
Jim Burton

Jim Burton I am proud of your leadership!

Bruce Reyes-Chow

Bruce Reyes-Chow is very excited to let folks know that his 219th General Assembly Preacher selections have been confirmed. Stepping up to the pulpit in 2010 will be: Hakeem Jerome Jefferson, Taylor Lewis Guthrie, Ruth-Aimée Belonni-Rosario, G. Christopher Scruggs and some guy named Bruce Reyes-Chow ;-)

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Martha Williams Jordan
Martha Williams Jordan
is there a link to their bios somewhere? I am not familiar with all of them but the ones I know about gets me excited and make me want to attend this year.
October 25 at 6:33pm
Bruce Reyes-Chow
Bruce Reyes-Chow
There will be a fully official announcement in a few weeks, just giving you the sneak peek ;-)
October 26 at 1:22am
Brian Merritt
Bruce Reyes-Chow
Over the last week, typhoons, floodings, earthquakes and tsunamis have severely impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in several countries within Asia, the Pacific region and here in the United States...
Bruce Reyes-Chow
[image: Youth Trienium 2010]Below is a letter from The Model Programs Team of the General Assembly Task Force on Youth Ministry.   They are seeking input about model programs that are being used in Youth Ministry throughout the Presbyterian Church. ...
Bruce Reyes-Chow
[Images: Ann Klingensmith] Last Sunday, as part of a recent Moderatorial itineration, I had the privileged of preaching at First Presbyterian Church, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. While fairly traditional in style, the community was open to thoughtful and creative expressions of worship...
Bob Wollenberg
Bob Wollenberg
The idea of creating art during a sermon makes me think of how basic "juxtaposition" is in worship. We juxtapose images and ideas off of each other to create a whole that is more than the pieces. Don Saliers wrote, "...liturgical celebration is that place of convergence where our lives are brought together about the book, the font and the table of the Lord in which the grace of God becomes audible, visible, palpable, kinetic." ...like the KINETIC part!
September 29 at 6:04am
Judye Pistole
Judye Pistole
thanks for the quotation. :)
September 29 at 7:44am
Bruce Reyes-Chow
As you can tell, my blogging frequency has been slow to say the least. Bandwidth with is pretty full, but I still want to keep getting some stuff out there. First, if you are interested in what's happening at the General Assembly Mission Council meeting, a few folks are tweeting the meeting...
Debbie Slack-Harris
Debbie Slack-Harris
My experience with youth elders is mixed. All the youth elders have been great, sharp, helpful young people. Session was fairly good at letting them have responsibility. The negative is "the good, the bad and the ugly." I had a particularly troublesome elder one time, wrecked havoc on session and in the church. The youth elder at that time lost ... Read Moreinterest in the church, was disillusioned and angry, when she went off and eventually in adulthood went elsewhere. Of course, that can happen with adults as well.
September 23 at 10:29pm
Katie Mathews Treadway
Katie Mathews Treadway
I'm currently in a church with a bicameral system -- 6 deacons and 6 elders. I have to say that after we figured out how to share responsibilities, which each of the deacons rotating being "on call" for emergencies and to help visit and to work the food pantry, this has worked really well for us. (the original model was, one deacon visits everyone... Read More while the other 5 send cards -- not as helpful.) Meanwhile the elders can focus on the "business" end of running a church while being spiritual leaders with different kinds of gifts than the deacons. As for youth representation on the session -- I think it's important for the nominating committee to make sure that different ages/races/genders are well-represented so that all voices can be heard. I have encouraged youth to serve before, if only a one-year term. I find it's more important in my older congregation to make sure that we occasionally ask one of our 20s and 30s to serve. They may serve differently, but they are important too.
September 24 at 3:39am
Bruce Reyes-Chow
Below is a short sheet prepare the Presbyterian Washington Office regarding current public policy of the Presbyterian Church USA regarding Health Care Reform.  I do realize that there are folks who will continue to passionately believe that we should not be engaged in this kind of work, but I also ...
Abbie Watters
Abbie Watters
Thanks, Bruce, for sharing this. We need to be reminded that, no matter which side of the political spectrum we come down on, Health Care is in a crisis that needs to be solved by people of good will on both sides, engaging in sober thoughtful debate.
September 15 at 2:47pm
Carolyn Westman Wallis
September 15 at 3:41pm
Bruce Reyes-Chow

Bruce Reyes-Chow is pretty sure wifi on an airplane has yet to help him get any work done. Still some Social Networking action at 30k feet makes the flight go much faster.

Bruce Reyes-Chow

Bruce Reyes-Chow is wanting to blame jet lag one more time for his state of awakeness, but thinks tonight might be a case of the old fashioned tireds.

August 29 at 8:09am
Abbie Watters
Abbie Watters
Sometimes it's like that.
August 29 at 8:38am
Bruce Reyes-Chow

Bruce Reyes-Chow Would love to see some you at "The Nines"

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Block out the day turn up your speakers and sharpen those twittering skilz because: In less than two weeks, THE NINES free online leadership event will be simulcasted and live-twittered via the magic of the interwebs right here at www.reyes-chow.com*. ...
Bruce Reyes-Chow

Bruce Reyes-Chow firmly believes that if we give into the cynical notion that nothing we do matters in the end, we are left only to live lives of least transformation.

August 27 at 4:18pm
Bruce Reyes-Chow
Continuing the conversation of a few weeks ago about why we are Presbyterian, here is my monthly column for August, Being Connected. This goes out via different tubes of communication from the Office of the General Assembly in Louisville. Be sure to check out, Why are you Presbyterian...