August 29 & 30, 2010 Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick is our guest lecturer this year. His sermon and lecture topics will be as follows: Sunday, August 29, 8:30 and 11:00 am Sermon: Cliff will be preaching during the Sunday morning worship services on the theme, “A Different World is Possible,” drawing from the legacy of John Calvin and the scripture texts of Amos 5: 21-24 and Mark 1: 14-20. Sunday, August 29, 6:00 pm Dinner in Fellowship Hall. Cost is $7. Please call the church office to RSVP by noon on Thursday, August 26 (713-622-4807). Sunday, August 29, 7:00 pm Lecture: “Calvin’s legacy 500 Years Later: A World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Future of the Reformed Movement in the 21st Century.” Monday, August 30, Noon Informal lunch with Cliff. Cost is $7. Please RSVP with the church office (713-622-4807) by noon on Thursday, August 26th. Monday, August 30, 7:00 pm Lecture: on the implications for our life and ministry here in the U.S.A. around the theme, “Is There a Future for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)?”

Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick is no stranger to Houston or to St. Philip Presbyterian Church of which Cliff and his family were a vital part in the 1970s when he also served as Executive Director of Houston Metropolitan Ministries (now Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston). Since his years in Houston, Cliff has given major leadership to the wider church, serving as Director of the PCUSA’s world mission programs for 15 years, as Stated Clerk of the General Assembly for 12 years, and now as a Professor of Ecumenical Studies and Global Ministries at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. Beyond that he has given major elected leadership to the global and ecumenical church, serving most recently as President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and as President of the International Calvin Jubilee Patronage Committee. During the summer lectures Cliff will share with us some of the exiting ways that God is at work today in our world and the implications of the exciting things that God is doing in so many parts of the world for our ministry and mission right here in Houston. He will particularly share insights from three recent global events: • The Calvin Jubilee – the worldwide celebration of John Calvin’s 500th birthday • The birth of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, which will take place in mid-June in Grand Rapids, Michigan and will mark a new commitment between Presbyterian and Reformed Churches in over 110 nations to be a “communion” together • “Witnessing to Christ Today” – the Centennial celebration of the 1910 World Mission Conference in Edinburgh that launched the global ecumenical movement and an unprecedented period of missionary advance, the result of which is that 2/3s of the world’s Christians now live in the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America). In light of these changes in world Christianity, his final lecture will focus on the question that many of us are asking, “Is there a future for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)?”