The NC Conference Black Clergy Association 2012 Annual Retreat – Creative and Effective Leadership for a New Age of Ministry. Sunday, May 20 – Thursday May 24, 2012. The Rev. Dr. Vance Ross is the retreat leader. Click here for more information and registration form.
| Sacred Pathways chosen for the 2012 Native American Ministries Sunday Ministry | ||
“I want to broaden my horizons, share my culture and all that I’ve learned, and try to show people there can be a better life for everybody.” — Lauren Oxendine, Lumbee, Robeson County, N.C.” Spiritual Connections is a youth-mentoring project of the faith-based Sacred Pathways Inc. in Robeson County, N.C., that provides food and other basic needs to low-income people. While its roots are among the Lumbee people, the project is racially diverse, like the county it serves. Supported by United Methodists through the Native American Ministries Sunday offering, Sacred Pathways counsels and nurtures young people, teaching them to work cross-culturally to improve their lives and their communities. That includes seeking answers to widespread poverty and decreasing numbers of school dropouts, teen pregnancies and gangs. Members of the interracial Youth Leadership Cabinet, drawn from area high schools, learn critical thinking skills, team building, self-esteem and personal goal setting. They also learn to respond creatively to concerns such as saving the environment and fighting global hunger and homelessness. “This program taught me so much that I will take with me wherever I go,” says Lauren Oxendine, 19, who made new friends and discovered a passion for community service as a cabinet member. “I want to broaden my horizons, share my culture and all that I’ve learned, and try to show people there can be a better life for everybody.” Your gifts on Native American Ministries Sunday fund ministries that pave the way for those who aspire to serve Christ’s church by making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Because of your generosity, young people like Lauren discover a world worth saving, congregations become stronger, seminarians prepare to serve, and communities are transformed. |
Revolution is a short video produced for the expressed purpose to see the Body Of Christ live lives of missional purpose 24/7. Our prayer it that the priesthood of the believer would be reignited and revival would sweep America!
A new website aims to equip and empower local churches to become vital and healthy congregations.UMVitalCongregations.org is designed to help churches move through a process of evaluation and assessment as they begin to set goals, and then find key resources to help them achieve those goals.
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart.
Leadership is about inspiration—of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.
Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
Facing The Giants
Effective Leaders take their congregations to the End Zone!
Faithful leaders, grounded in Wesleyan tradition and rooted in personal Christian formation, are the driving force in The United Methodist Church. Whether laity or clergy, disciple-makers working in local churches, districts, and annual conferences can find the resources they need through Leadership Ministries. Read more.
Leadership Education at Duke Divinity, founded in January 2008, cultivates thriving communities that are signs, foretastes and instruments of the reign of God. We design and deliver educational services that develop three interrelated capacities for:
- Traditioned innovation, rooted in the story of the Trinity, that invigorates the present and envisions the future by honoring the church’s past.
- Transformative leadership, responsive to God through the development of virtues and practices, that equips people to advance the church’s mission.
- Vibrant institutions, led by hopeful and imaginative people, that act as bearers of tradition, incubators of leadership and laboratories of learning. Read More
For more of the Connectional Staff’s Transformational work resourcing, coaching, and partnering in local congregations, please see: Transforming Congregations – Making Disciples of Jesus Christ; Outreach Ministries; Christian Formation Ministries
