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Friends,

Pennington Presbyterian Church welcomes you! We are a community of faith, blessed by God and committed to being a blessing for others.

You may be wondering what decisions are being made about reopening our facilities. Last month, the Session (our governing body) appointed a “What’s Next?” team to carefully look at dozens of questions and challenges related to re-opening. We are consulting documents from a variety of sources including those from the medical and infectious disease experts, state and local governments, state licensing groups (related to our nursery school), and regional and national Presbyterian sources. The “What’s Next” group will bring recommendations to our Session. We will keep everyone updated as new information is available.

For now, our church building continues to be closed for worship and all groups and activities. While we aren’t meeting face to face, we continue to be a church of Jesus Christ and have a vital ministry! Our ministry includes virtual worship which you can access on our website, Bible studies, church school, and youth groups on Zoom. Our mission committee continues to help those in the community, including a diaper drive for Homefront. Donations can be placed in the bins on the steps of the church. We are reaching out with love and care through emails, cards, phone calls, and prayer. I hope you will join us in praying for all victims of the virus, for families who grieve the death of a loved one, for those who offer direct care to the sick and dying, and for everyone worldwide who is struggling physically, emotionally, or financially because of the pandemic. God cares and God is with us.

Once we are back together as a congregation in our church building, you can explore other opportunities to connect, worship, grow, and serve with us. We are committed to inspiring and equipping disciples to share the transforming love of Jesus Christ. We hope that you will browse this website for more information about our church and come and be part of our church family on Sundays, electronically now, and in person down the road.

In Christ,

Nancy Mikoski
Pastor

PPC Hires New Half-Time Pastor for Youth Ministry

Dear Friends in Christ,

In October of last year, the Session of our church authorized a search committee for the newly created position, Half Time Stated Supply Associate Pastor, whose main responsibility (among others) would be to facilitate our youth ministry. Working from the criteria supplied by Session, the Search Committee, through discussion and prayer, compiled personal and professional qualities that would satisfy the given criteria, and drafted a job posting that was circulated to various presbyteries and the Princeton Theological Seminary.

We also formulated an evaluation process. The Committee would first meet with the desirable candidates, and if that discussion went well, have the candidate meet with Pastor Nancy one on one. The final step was for the Committee to host a dinner and also invite the youth of our congregation to attend. The purpose was two-fold, first, we wanted to see how a candidate actually interacts with our youth on a casual basis. Second, we would ask the candidate to teach a lesson to both the youth and adults present. Through every stage of this process, we prayed for guidance.

The Search Committee, in concert with a unanimous vote from both Session and the Presbytery’s Committee on Ministry, is pleased to announce that Casey James Aldridge has officially accepted the position as of last night.

Casey is from North Carolina and is under care of the Charlotte Presbytery. Having graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as a Levine scholar, Casey enrolled at the Princeton Theological Seminary as a Presidential Scholar and winner of the Presbyterian Leadership Award, and will be graduating this May.

Youth ministry is a passion for Casey. For the past two years, Casey has done his field education work in youth and young adult ministry at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, designing and leading middle school youth group lessons and children’s church curriculum while facilitating other youth fellowship and community service events. While still an undergraduate in college, Casey was actively involved in youth ministry for two years at his home church in North Carolina, and was a Young Adult Youth Advisory Delegate to the 2018 PCUSA General Assembly.

The Search Committee and Session were impressed by Casey’s deep faith, his ability to honestly communicate the ups and downs of his own faith journey, and his understanding of the unique concerns and anxieties that impact today’s youth. Due to Casey’s prior commitments at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Seminary and his other assorted duties, his starting date will be in early June. In the interim, we hope to put together a couple of events where you can meet him in person.

The Committee would like to thank Nancy Mikoski for her advisory role, Session for their guidance, the church youth who participated in the evaluation process, Lee and Ellen White for maintaining our youth ministry program while we searched for a new half-time pastor, you, the congregation for your prayers, and most importantly, the Holy Spirit, who answered our collective prayers particularly when the going got tough.

In Christ’s service,

Pennington Presbyterian Church Pastor Search Committee: Pat Coats, Allison Larthey, Sandy LaCasse, Cindy Reeder & Joe Tully

Introducing Our New Half-Time Pastor, Casey Aldridge

Pennington Presbyterian Church – hello! My name is Casey Aldridge, I’m from Charlotte, North Carolina, and I am finishing up my final semester at Princeton Theological Seminary.

In 2014, God called me back to faith. And yet without my experience of youth ministry growing up, I would not have had the language or tools necessary to understand and follow that call. I am excited to begin this new journey with Pennington Presbyterian Church and its youth.

To the youth of the congregation, I can’t wait to invite your questions and your doubts, to nurture your relationships with Jesus and your neighbors, and to equip you with the same tools and language that allowed me to hope in God at a time when I could not hope in anything else.

May the peace and grace of the Lord be with you,

Casey Aldridge