Mission Connections Team

God is calling us to bold and energetic connections with the communities we serve. The Missions Connections Team maintains and strengthens relationships with designated Presbytery missions, promotes and supports missional ministries of social, racial, and environmental justice, peacemaking, and self- empowerment throughout the congregations of the Presbytery, and promotes and supports special missional outreach ministries of evangelism and discipleship from the congregations of the Presbytery.

This Team engages in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue, facilitating and mutually supporting collegial relationships and forms of joint congregational mission and witness with other ecumenical and interfaith partners, as well as supporting emerging ministry partnerships among congregations, non-profit partners, and ecumenical and interfaith organizations which fulfill the mission of the Presbytery.

This Team will be elected to 1-3 year terms of service by the Presbytery upon nomination of the Committee on Representation.

Team Members

Teaching Elder Cindy Shepherd
Faith in Place
cindyshep2000@yahoo.com

Ruling Elder Ray Stump
First Presbyterian Church of Hoopeston
chudly49@gmail.com

Teaching Elder Mary Wright
First Presbyterian Church of Charleston
presbypastor@mycci.net

Ex Officio
Ruling Elder Dr. Rebecca Blair
Lead Presbyter for Transformation and Stated Clerk
statedclerk@gmail.com