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Report from the Clergy Executive Session

Bishop Ward opened the session by reflecting upon how we, as baptized Christians, are called to live deep, fruitful, and healthy lives in order to craft disciples and communities. She explained that we as United Methodists have a good heritage and a broken history that we continue to strive to reconcile. Part of our well-crafted lives demands that we learn deeply from this tradition and create welcoming congregations across our annual conference. She commended to us Crafting Lives by Catherine Bishir.

We are called to live forward in faithfulness and strength by creating community in every place. We have a heritage we bear into the world—personal holiness and social holiness held in blessed tension as we craft the amazing congregations to which we are appointed. 

David Brownlee spoke of the importance of spiritual direction related to vocational ministry. A spiritual director helps lay and clergy alike discern “what’s next?” in spiritual lives.  

Chairman Rev. Ned Hill presented the report of the Board of Ordained Ministry. The report will be available in its entirety at the end of annual conference.

The NCCUMC welcomed two new Deacons in Full Connection and fourteen new Elders in Full Connection along with provisional members and local pastors. The bishop commented on the important work being done across our connection by part-time local pastors who allow us to continue to do ministry in congregations across the conference.

The session closed with a report from Partners in Caring celebrating the retirement of Henry Lovelace, the long-time treasurer. In addition to receiving checks, they will now be able to process electronic transfers and automatic drafts to make it easier for more clergy to participate.

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June 14, 2018

  • But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. - 1 John 1:7

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  • A Prayer for Mental Health Month. Let us pray:

Loving Creator, we come to you because we know that you are a God of love and compassion. We come as people of all creeds and all nations seeking your presence, comfort and guidance. We come as family members, friends, co-workers and mental health professionals. We come because we believe that you, Divine One, love each one of us just as we are and you walk with us on our individual journeys through life. You see the ignorance and injustice that divides and separates persons struggling with mental illness and you weep with us. Give us courage to face our challenges and open us today to the many ways you are already working in our midst. Help us to identify mental illness as the disease it is, that we might have courage and wisdom in the face of ignorance and stigma. Inspire us as we seek to overcome fear, acquire knowledge, and advocate for compassionate and enlightened treatment and services. Lead us as we open our hearts and homes, our communities and job opportunities, our houses of worship and communities of faith. Enable us to find ways to be inclusive of persons living with mental illness in our everyday lives. Be with doctors, therapists, researchers, social workers, and all those in the helping professions as they seek to overcome ignorance and injustice with care and compassion. Sometimes we feel discouraged and hopeless in the face of so many challenges. Help us to see ourselves as you see us…persons of value and worth…persons of creativity and potential. May we come to understand the interconnectedness of mind, body and spirit in bringing about health and wholeness. And may we go forward into our communities with a renewed sense of vision, hope and possibility for the future. Amen.
— Reverend Susan Gregg-Schroeder

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  • Annual Conference 2022 will be at the Greenville Convention Center in Greenville, NC, on June 15-18, 2022. The theme for the quadrennium is Grace for the Future. Annual Conference 2022 will focus on Graceful Justice – Rooted in Our Baptism.

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  • I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. - John 15:5

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  • One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. - Psalm 27:4

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