Author Archives: Mike Givler

Light, Lunch and Lyrics at Synod, presbytery office

Posted December 1, 2016

Enjoy music, a soup lunch and the Peace Light on Wednesday, Dec. 14, from 12:15-1 p.m.

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Synod seeking ‘next generation’ leaders

Posted November 21, 2016

The Synod of the Trinity is currently beginning a process to discover and develop a network of leaders within the next generation area of ministry (which covers birth through graduation and even college-age ministry). In our first phase we want to find out more about what is happening in the areas of children’s and youth…

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‘Faith for the Future’ campaign helps bring new energy to Pine Springs Camp

Posted November 10, 2016

“Our mission is that we want every camper to experience a vital encounter with Christ.”

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Rev. H. Paul Leap, 97, was Synod supporter of education

Posted October 4, 2017

Rev. H. Paul Leap worked for the Synod of the Trinity supporting youth education in the 1960s and ’70s.

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Seniors thriving through Chestnut Hill Church’s “Center on the Hill”

Posted November 7, 2016

“If you build it for all of those people outside the doors, you’re giving life. The place where you see that day after day after day is the Center.”

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Don Dawson helped reshape mission focus in western PA

Posted November 10, 2016

“It was a sweet spot (for my career) because it allowed me to contribute even more to the whole of the larger church.”

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Egyptian partnership changing way mission work looks in Shenango

Posted October 21, 2016

“I think mission is so often more sitting down, having conversations, breaking bread together and worshiping together.”

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PMM director recalls assistance with Ben Weir hostage release in 1985

Posted October 18, 2016

Ben Weir, who passed away Oct. 14, was held hostage in Beirut for 16 months from 1984-85.

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Synod Assembly Meeting for October 2016

Posted October 14, 2016

The Synod of the Trinity’s Fall Assembly Meeting will be held Oct. 24-25 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College.

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Alyson Wilson finds her calling as a YAV in Chinook, Montana

Posted October 14, 2016

“It (YAV program) made me realize things that I hadn’t considered about myself before. It definitely drew attention to things that I really didn’t think I would consider.”

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