POC E-NEWS BLAST

MAY 29, 2024

FAITH & HOUSING SUMMIT 2024

Charlotte Convention Center

Thursday, May 30th

Faith communities across Charlotte are working together to find affordable housing solutions. Please join us for an interfaith convening on Thursday, May 30th to explore ways that faith leaders, city officials, community agencies and developers can partner to advance affordable housing options for Charlotte's residents.

-> Connect through shared purpose. Bring the community together to explore pathways for communities of faith to participate in affordable housing for Charlotte’s residents.

-> Celebrate & Learn. Learn from examples of creative partnerships between communities of faith, public and private entities. Listen for barriers, future work and ways that connections and city/partner support can help.

-> Inspire & Advance. Build new connections and strengthen the work with educational tools and resources.

The Summit will begin with a coffee networking breakfast at 8:15 am and will conclude at 3:45 pm. Attendance at the Faith & Housing Summit is free. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

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Learn more at the Faith and Housing Summit site. Questions? Email us at hnsinfo@charlottenc.gov or call us at 704-336-5860.

Read the article: Charlotte has a housing crisis. The faith community has a fix (by Rev. John Cleghorn)

R.A.P. COMMUNITY RALLY DAY

Greenville Memorial AME Zion Church

6116 Monteith Drive, Charlotte

Come out and join us on Saturday, June 1st from 12:00-2:00 pm, to learn more about the Reimagining America Project (RAP) and other non-profit organizations serving our community! Enjoy some good music with a live DJ, order from Chef Lee's Seafood and Chicken food truck, and cool down with free popsicles and drinks! 

Find out more about RAP and the work we’re doing by visiting our website, reimaginingamericaproject.org

SYNOD OF THE MID-ATLANTIC

PW VIRTUAL SUMMER GATHERING

FRIDAY, JUNE 14th at 7:00 pm

We hope to see you online and on our computer screens this June! The Synod Coordinating Team voted to hold this year's SSG via Zoom to free up funds for as many of you to attend the Churchwide Gathering as are able to go.

We have another great line-up of inspiring speakers as well as our Business Meeting where we elect and install new PWS leaders and vote on the 2025 budget. We will close our Gathering with worship with communion.

Rev. Dr. Stephany Graham Walker will be our

worship leader for the Gathering.

https://www.pwsma.com/summer-gathering

(We will be back at Massanetta next Summer, June 12-15, 2025)

Black Mountain's "Learning to Thrive Leadership Academy" is developed to train congregational and community leaders in practices of Qualitative Leadership. Qualitative Leadership is our unique approach to leadership that provides training in community organizing practices and qualitative research skills for engaging collaborative efforts of theological action research. It is highly relational and deeply collaborative. It is also aimed to make deep and lasting change. Participants will learn practical skills for weaving a stronger relational fabric and for understanding how to work in and with their community to make substantial change through building collaborative action.  

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

CENTRAL STEELE CREEK FINE ARTS SUMMER ACADEMY June 25th - August 6th

Private lessons for all ages: PreK to Adult (beginning, intermediate and advanced) Group classes for Sculpture, Drums and Guitar on Tuesday evenings: 4:00 – 7:30 pm. Inquire about additional classes at arts@cscpc.org

Please go to https://centralfinearts.org/ for class information and registration

ANTI-RACISM AS A WAY OF BEING

Antiracism as a Way of Being is a six-module video series developed for NEXT Church by Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training. Each module contains multiple short videos (5-10 minutes) along with supplemental materials and reflection questions. Each module takes about an hour to work through, on average.

It asks the following questions:

• What does antiracism require of you?
• How are different forms of oppression linked?
• What embodied values will transform our institutions and ourselves?
• What makes our lives, our very beings, an act of resistance?

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE

BIBLE & CHURCH MUSIC CONFERENCE 2024

Massanetta Springs Camp and Conference Center

Register for Bible and Church Music Conference 2024 today! Come listen to leaders and speakers like Rev. Dr. Brian Blount and Rev. Shannon Johnson Kershner.

For more information please visit 

https://massanettasprings.org/programs/bcmc

CHURCHWIDE GATHERING OF PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN

St. Louis, Missouri, August 8–11, 2024

Save these dates, share these dates and plan to join Presbyterian Women from around the country on these dates! The 2024 PW Gathering will be an exciting, faith-filled time to renew our connections within and across PW groups from across the country. Join us to be invigorated, equipped for your PW life, welcomed into community by hundreds of other PWs, and empowered to “Do everything in love.”

https://www.facebook.com/CharlottePresbytery