Adult Education Summer 2008

The adult education brochure for Summer 2008 is available as a PDF for downloading here.
A text version of the same brochure, with updates appears below.

ADULT STUDY GROUP
May 25-August 31 9:00-9:50AM, Room202
During the summer, a small study group will meet in Room 202 for theological discussion and reflection. The study group will be considering such subjects as atonement, suffering, prayer, and the theology of Calvin. Two small books are under consideration for extended discussion. Participation in the group is as often as one desires and as summer schedule permits.

INDIVIDUAL SUNDAY CLASSES

FAITH AT WORK Series, June 8 - July 27, 11:15AM, Assembly Room
How do we make the connections between Sunday and Monday, between the life of faith and life in the workplace? How can we talk about our faith at work? How does our faith shape the way we understand our work, and the way we go about it? Come hear members of the Nassau family, representing a wide variety of professions and vocations, talk about their faith at work, and through discussion time add your own voice to a vibrant, energizing conversation!

June 8, Stephen Payne
Both a coach and a speaker on the subject of leadership in the business arena, Stephen Payne founded Leadership Strategies in 1994 with the goal of helping corporations and executives modify and strengthen leadership behavior at high managerial levels. He works directly with senior decision-makers and their teams throughout the world, coaching them to improve their leadership performance and showing them how to handle their near- and long-term management challenges more effectively. This introduction to the Faith at Work series will explore ways one might both practice and engage faith in the workplace, wherever and whatever that might be.

June 15, Deborah Thomas
Deborah Thomas is a Professor of English at Villanova University.  She is an expert on 19th Century British Women Writers, Victorian Literature and Culture, and novelists Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.  She has written three books---Hard Times: A Fable of Fragmentation and Wholeness, Thackeray and Slavery, and Dickens and the Short Story---and published 33 articles.  She also edited the Penguin Classics book, Charles Dickens: Selected Short Fiction.

June 22, David Miller
David W. Miller is the Executive Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, leads the Center’s “Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace” program and teaches business ethics at Yale Divinity School and the Yale School of Management.  While studying for his doctorate at Princeton Theological Seminary, he founded the Avodah Institute, whose mission is to help leaders integrate the claims of their faith with the demands of their work. He spent 16 years in senior positions in international business and finance, including eight years in private banking in London. His book God at Work was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.  He is a Presbyterian minister and was ordained at Nassau Presbyterian Church.

June 29, Mary Ann and Jon Alger
Mary Ann Alger has over twenty years of experience in finance, small business consulting, and entrepreneurship.  She currently consults for early stage companies in their commercialization efforts. Previously, she worked in international banking and in international private equity investing.  She has taught classes about faith and workplace issues in two different churches.  At Nassau, she is a deacon and serves on the Steering Committee for Mothers Fellowship Group. 
Jonathan R. Alger is Vice President and General Counsel of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he oversees the university’s legal affairs. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys.  Before coming to Rutgers, he was Assistant General Counsel at the University of Michigan where he coordinated two landmark admissions lawsuits in the U.S. Supreme Court.  He also served in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and counsel for the national office of the American Association of University Professors in Washington, D.C.

July 13, Corrie Berg and Janet Giles
Corrie Berg grew up in North Dakota and graduated from Jamestown College, a small Presbyterian college. She married Shane Berg in 1994 and lived in Princeton and New Haven while Shane was studying at Princeton Seminary and then Yale University. She is the mother of three boys, all born during those student years: Soren 3, Mathias 7, and Anders 12. A member of Nassau, Corrie serves on the Steering Committee for the Mother’s Fellowship Group. Now a stay-at-home mom, Corrie is working on starting a cottage industry of custom window treatments.
Janet Giles was raised in the Lyndhurst Community Presbyterian Church just outside of Cleveland, where her mother was an elder, deacon, and circle member. Janet herself is an elder, and has served on various family-oriented committees at Nassau. Formerly an elementary school teacher, Janet currently serves as a board member for Corner House, Princeton Alcohol and Drug Alliance, and the Historical Society of Princeton. She is the mother of four children: Cameron, Christian, Caroline, and Carson.

July 20, Shannon and Sam Daley-Harris
Shannon Daley-Harris writes, speaks, and consults on ways to mobilize the religious community in support of social change.  She has served the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) in various capacities for eighteen years, establishing the multi-faith National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths in 1992 and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry in 1995. Shannon is the author of Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007), the annual multi-faith resource manual for the Children’s Sabbath, and numerous other publications. A child of Nassau Presbyterian Church, Shannon and her family--husband Sam and children Micah and Sophie--moved to Princeton in August after nearly two decades in Washington, D.C. Shannon has a Masters of Divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary and is certified ready to receive a call to the ministry of word and sacrament in the PC(USA).   
Sam Daley-Harris is founder of RESULTS, a grassroots lobbying organization that seeks to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty.  He is also the founder of the Microcredit Summit Campaign, which seeks to reach 175 million of the world’s poorest families with microcredit by 2015.
2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Muhammad Yunus, said the following about both organizations: “No other organization has been as critical a partner in seeing to it that microcredit is used as a tool to eradicate poverty and empower women than RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund’s Microcredit Summit Campaign.” Mr. Daley-Harris is the author of the book Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, about which President Jimmy Carter said, “[Daley-Harris] provides a road map for global involvement in planning a better future.”

July 27, Deborah Toppmeyer and Bob Hilkert
Deborah Toppmeyer, MD, is a Medical Oncologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. She is Director of The Life Center at the New Jersey Comprehensive Breast Care Center- Breast Oncology. Over the past 11 years she has established herself as an expert in the design and implementation of clinical trails that offer promising new therapies targeted to specific types of breast cancer.
Toppmeyer is an investigative and clinical visionary, known for developing new therapies, translating novel approaches to clinical trials and ultimately meeting the needs of the community by helping her patients to navigate through treatment options while encouraging enrollment in clinical trials.
Robert Hilkert, MD, is a board certified cardiologist and a Medical Director at Novartis. Bob has worked in the Cardiovascular division of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, and served 10 years as a member of the faculty at UMDNJ Robert Wood Medical School, Division of Cardiology as Associate Professor of Medicine. He has lectured throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and his expertise has led to several research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association.

 

COME AND SEE: Mission from the inside, August 3 - 24, 11:15AM, Assembly Room

August 3, Guatemala School Partnership
Thirty-five people from Nassau, Princeton and area, Boston and parts beyond met in Parramos, Guatemala, in July to teach, befriend, repair, and provide medical care at the Valley of the Pines school we visit each year. Hear the stories, “meet” the children, and be inspired by the work being done under the leadership of Fredy Estrada, Hopewell Presbyterian Church; Emily Heine, Nassau; and Minister of Education Joyce MacKichan Walker.

August 10, Family Mission Trips
“Do Justice, Love Kindness, Walk Humbly with God” was the theme of this summer’s two family mission trips to Pennsylvania and West Virginia, led by Jennifer Prior and Nancy Mikoski respectively. Come hear stories and see pictures of children, youth and adults engaged in mission.

August 17, Actions of the PC(USA) General Assembly
Nancy Prince, a member of Nassau Church, served as New Brunswick Presbytery’s voting elder commissioner to this year’s bi-annual meeting of the General Assembly, the highest governing body of the church and the representative body of the unity of our congregations, sessions, presbyteries, and synods. The 2008 theme was “Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). Come and hear about the major issues they addressed, together with the implications for the denomination and for this congregation.

August 24, Senior High Mission Trip
Senior High youth and adult advisors will share their experiences of doing home repairs for needy families in Wise County, Viriginia, through the Appalachian Service Project. Come and see what God has done for these partner families and what God is doing in the lives of our youth!

Nassau Presbyterian Church's Adult Education Committee intends to

present the Good News of Jesus Christ

examine issues for their relevance to our lives of faith

enrich understanding of God so that our relationship with God may be enriched

enliven history to instruct our current Christian practice, andchallenge all to respond to God's call to be God's faithful servants in the world.
"As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving." --Colossians 2:6-7