Make a Commitment to Invest in Your Continuing Education

Every January, many of us tend to make a new year's resolution.  Whether it is to lose weight, exercise more, spend more time with family and friends, reaffirm our commitment to God or grow as an individual by taking education classes, we look at January as a way of starting the new year with a commitment. This sense of a new beginning also applies to our professional lives and with the lives of those we work with each and every day.  As support staff: secretaries, day care workers, bookkeepers, office managers and administrative assistants, your church is counting on you to begin this new year with a new sense of commitment.  The commitment of enhancing the skills that you already posses by having your church fund your membership to the Administrative Personnel Association of the Presbyterian Church (USA) as well as budgeting for you to attend an APA conference.  This investment for you as support staff, a mere $75 for the membership dues and approximately $500 for attendance at an APA conference, is a great way to start off this new year. This year's Florida Region Conference will be held from May 16th through May 20th in Sarasota. The registration form will be posted on the Florida Region's website at the end of January  This is a great gift that your church can give you. Allow your church the opportunity to reaffirm their commitment to you and your organization by encouraging you to make the resolution that this is the year that you are going to start the process to become more educated about Presbyterian Church USA history, theology and polity. Contact Barbara Prieto, Florida Region President, at 305-666-8586 to find out how you can begin this new year right by becoming affiliated with this great association. Nancy Fine Membership Chair Florida Region of the Administrative Personnel Association of the Presbyterian Church (USA)