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Connex keeps readers up-to-date on benefits, employment policies, and other initiatives of the Permanent Committee on Ministry and Employment Policies and Services (PC-MEPS) and the Ministry and Employment Unit.

• Ministry personnel and employees of the United Church: stay on top of issues affecting your health and benefits.
• Pastoral charge treasurers, Ministry and Personnel (M&P) Committee members, payroll administrators: this newsletter is essential reading for you!

Issue 34, March 2013

In this issue, meet the new Permanent Committee on Ministry and Employment Policies and Services (PC-MEPS). Members of the committee represent Canada coast-to-coast!  In an editorial, committee chair Tracy Murton contemplates the committee’s role and faithful rule-bending;  also, the United Church’s newly revised 85-year-old Manual prepares to launch on April 1st.   

If you have questions or comments on anything you read from Ministry and Employment, please call 1-800-268-3781 ext.3161 or e-mail Ministry and Employment.

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• Connex Issue 34, March 2013 [PDF: 4 pp/280 KB]
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Archives

• Connex Issue 33, December 2012 [PDF: 4 pp/263 KB]
  • Xtra [PDF: 2 pp/132 KB]
• Connex Issue 32, October 2012 [PDF: 4 pp/285 KB]
• Connex Special Issue, August 2012 [PDF: 1 p/216 KB]
• Connex 31, June 2012 [PDF: 4 pp/507 KB]
  • Xtra [PDF: 3 pp/369 KB]
• Connex 30, March 2012 [PDF: 4 pp/705 KB]
• Connex 29, January 2012 [PDF: 4 pp/553 KB]
  • Xtra [PDF: 3 pp/264 KB]
• Connex 28, October 2011 [PDF: 4 pp/467 KB]
  • Insert [PDF: 2 pp/238 KB]
• Connex 27, May 2011 [PDF: 4 pp/537 KB]
  • Insert [PDF: 2 pp/158 KB]
• Connex 26, March 2011 [PDF: 4 pp/482 KB]
• Connex 25, December 2010 [PDF: 4 pp/380 KB]
  • Xtra, December 2010 [PDF: 2 pp/418 KB]
• Connex 24, October 2010 [PDF: 4 pp/555 KB]
  • Xtra, October 2010 [PDF: 2 pp/373 KB]
• Connex 23, May 2010 [PDF: 4 pp/483 KB]
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  • Xtra, May 2010 [PDF: 2 pp/218 KB]
• Connex 22, March 2010 [PDF: 4 pp/322 KB]
  • Connex 22, March 2010 (Printer-Friendly) [PDF: 6 pp/91 KB]
  • Insert: PC-MEPS [PDF: 2 pp/310 KB]
• Connex 21, December 2009 [PDF: 4 pp/387 KB]
  • Insert: Isolation in Ministry [PDF: 2 pp/293 KB]
• Connex 20, September 2009 [PDF: 4 pp/449 KB]
  • Insert: Isolation in Ministry [PDF: 2 pp/301 KB]
• Connex 19, May 2009 [PDF: 4 pp/355 KB]
• Connex 18, March 2009 [PDF: 4 pp/357 KB]
  • Insert: Pastoral Charge Payroll Service—Update [PDF: 2 pp/246 KB]