The Come to the Table Conference is hosted by the Come to the Table Program of the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA). Under the leadership direction of Executive Director Edna Rodriguez, RAFI-USA challenges the root causes of unjust food systems, supporting and advocating for economically, racially, and ecologically just farm communities. The mission of the […]

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. In her training, she will offer practical tools to help us sustain, individually and collectively, in the face of trauma, secondary trauma and overwhelm. Whether you are in vocational ministry or […]

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm. In her training, she will offer practical tools to help us sustain, individually and collectively, in the face of trauma, secondary trauma and overwhelm. Whether you are in vocational ministry or […]

Join us for a celebration of women who have shared their healing and hope with the state of North Carolina. We will highlight stories and lives of nurses, doctors, faith leaders, freedom fighters, and more using resources from the State Library of North Carolina’s digital offerings.

Join us for a celebration of women who have shared their healing and hope with the state of North Carolina. We will highlight stories and lives of nurses, doctors, faith leaders, freedom fighters, and more using resources from the State Library of North Carolina’s digital offerings.

Theme:  “Journey to Wholeness” Faculty:  Jerry Webber and Elaine Heath Co-Retreat Leaders:  Ann Abbott and  Jim Cook Sponsors: The Spiritual Formation Ministry of the Florida Annual Conference of the UMC and Upper Room Ministries Scholarships are available! Contact Jim Cook or Ann Abbott for details. Recommended Reading: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, by Barbara Brown TaylorTo Bless the Space […]

Building the Beloved Community is a webinar series where we talk with leaders who are seeking to live out the vision of the beloved community as they work to engage and transform the world. From identifying various spheres of poverty and the systems that perpetuate poverty, to discussing what it looks like for the church to […]

Join Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW) for a Faith Health Connection with the North Carolina Senior Games and local Senior Games representatives from across our state. Learn ways to get involved in your local games and find out how PHW can help support the wellness journeys of older adults in your faith communities!

Join Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW) for a Faith Health Connection with the North Carolina Senior Games and local Senior Games representatives from across our state. Learn ways to get involved in your local games and find out how PHW can help support the wellness journeys of older adults in your faith communities!

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School is hosting the fifth seminar in its spring seminar series, “Background Beliefs and Bioethics” with Gilbert Meilaender, Ph.D., senior research professor at Valparaiso University and author of many books and articles in the field of Christian ethics.  He is co-editor (with William Werpehowski) of the Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics and […]

Global Ministries seeks U.S.-based United Methodists to lead grassroots environmental projects that are action-oriented, anti-racist, bold and entrepreneurial. Global Ministries EarthKeepers is a training program that equips US-based United Methodists to launch and grow environmental projects in their communities. Topics include eco-theology, anti-racism, community organizing, and project planning. All participants plan a project during the […]

This course will expand upon basic public speaking and the foundations necessary for preparing an engaging sermon. Included are various types of sermons – from exegetical to topical to children’s sermons – as well as how to find a story, use the hymnal, and how to move from communication on paper to beyond the paper. […]