Now is the Time!

Order your copies of the 2009 Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study and the 2009 Children’s Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study

For more than 116 years the Mission Yearbook has brought the Presbyterian family together daily for prayer and study. The stories for the 2009 yearbook were collected around the theme it shares with the 218th General Assembly (2008), “Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). Every day of the year, a different story of faith and hope await you in the 2009 Mission Yearbook.

Children’s Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study

The Children’s Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study (CMYB), adapted from its “parent” resource, the Mission Yearbook is a personal devotional resource in a weekly format written for 3rd through 6th graders. A wonderful and adaptive source of inspiration for children as well as parents, educators, and clergy, the CMYB is charmingly illustrated and filled with stories and activities that broaden awareness of the work of the church.

Other ways to order:

• Using a credit card: call (800) 524-2612.
• With a church PIN number: call (800) 524-2612.
• Complete the order form , include a check made out to PC(USA), and mail to:
  PDS Prepaid Sales
  P.O. Box 643674
  Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3674

The 2008 Mission Yearbooks are still available call (800) 524-2612 or order online Item #9781571530837, $4.65 each plus shipping (10% of cost, $4.50 minimum).

Features of the 2009 Mission Yearbook include:

• Inspiring stories from each of the countries with which PC(USA) works in partnership
• Mission updates from each of the PC(USA) presbyteries and synods
• Topical index to missions in synod and presbytery stories
• New ideas how to use your Mission Yearbook
• A welcome to Mission Yearbook readers by the Tom Taylor, deputy executive director for mission, PC(USA)
• A 16-page color insert “John Calvin and Education: To Grow in Knowledge and Grace ,” features stories and photos from around the church
• A second color insert lifts up the church's responce to many natural disasters of 2008
• Minutes for mission for liturgical holidays and special churchwide emphases
• Sunday minutes for mission pages that include the day’s lectionary and hymn selections
• Daily lectionary listed on each page
• Perforated pages for easy removal

Who needs a copy of the Mission Yearbook and why?

Every church member can use the Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study daily to help support, through prayer and practice, staff members in synods and presbyteries, and mission co-workers and mission partners at home and around the world. As they read the stories featured on each page, they broaden their knowledge of the church and its mission.

Session members can use the Mission Yearbook to understand the scope of their mission within that of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

New members will receive an at-their-fingertips update on the mission and connectional nature of the church and an understanding of the importance their congregation places on mission and prayer.

Christian educators have up-to-date information on the scope of the mission of the church for use in mission education and promotion through all levels of church life.

Pastors and all church leaders use the book to make a connection to hundreds of stories and photographs of people in mission in the United States and overseas. Thus, they are better able to support the mission of the PC(USA) and partner churches in prayer. The Mission Yearbook provides them with a current listing of mission workers and missions that the denomination supports, a worship-planning tool in the listings of suggested hymns and lectionaries for each Sunday, and much, much more.

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