Live from Wespath: A Virtual UMC Event (Wespath)

Online

Live from Wespath is a no-cost virtual event exclusively for UMC clergy and lay featuring information and insights from Wespath about General Conference, investments, benefits and well-being to help you better navigate your daily life and the general UMC environment.  Last year, more than 350 attendees “met” Wespath staff, asked questions live and discovered additional resources […]

Free

$ Small Church – Including Local Gifts and Conversation in Worship with Teresa Stewart (ClergyEducation.com)

Online

Small congregations have powerful worship strengths. This webinar is our second webinar from Teresa J Stewart, author of The Small Church Advantage. This webinar dives deep into some specific skills and examples for offering lavish small setting worship. Bring two pens. You’ll need them! Teresa Stewart is host of smallchurch.org and author of The Small Church Advantage.

$30

$ Lay Servant Ministries Basic Course (NCC Lay Servant Ministries)

Online

The Heritage district Lay Servant Ministries team presents the Basic Course in Lay Servant Ministries on Zoom with Ken Ripley. ** Registration is open until Thursday, March 28, 2024, at 11:00 pm. This gives the attendee enough time to register for the training, order and receive the reading materials, and read before the day of class. Heritage district […]

$5 – $20
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Creation Care District Training (NCC Creation Care)

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Last year, both the North Carolina and Western NC Conferences passed similar resolutions urging local churches to form creation care teams or begin (or continue) creation care ministries. To assist local churches, both Conferences have rolled out a collaborative training workshop across the state. Rev. Jarrod Davis, Creation Ministries Coordinator for NCC and WNCC, will […]

Free

$ Preaching a Children’s Sermon (BeADisciple.com)

Online

Course Dates:April 15 – 26, 2024 Do you find writing a 3-5 minute children’s sermon more intimidating than a 20 minute adult sermon? You’re not alone. Preparing and delivering a children’s sermon can be daunting, and countless people admit to being terrified at the thought of being asked to do so. Fear not — instructor […]

$50

COSROW Book Club: “The Light We Carry” (NCC Commission on the Status and Role of Women)

Online

The April COSROW Book Club selection is The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama https://www.amazon.com/the-light-we-carry/dp/0593237463 Join in a discussion of the book on April 15th at 11am. Come on your lunch break! Bring your lunch along! Clergymen are welcome!  Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/97186378063?pwd=L2NOckFORXdoSGl0QTliRFhxNWJKZz09 Meeting ID: 971 8637 8063 Passcode: 982196

Free

On the Swamp: Stories of Indigenous Environmental Justice (Wake County Public Libraries)

Online

Indigenous Peoples have occupied (and continue to occupy) their homelands in what is now eastern North Carolina for centuries. Ryan Emanuel shares stories and lessons about the resilience of Lumbee people and their neighbors in the face of colonialism, pollution, climate change, and other threats to their communities and the places they have always called […]

Free

Creation Care Funding Webinar for Local Churches (NCC Creation Care)

Online

Faith communities have new options for making significant upgrades to their places of worship. As nonprofit organizations, faith-based organizations have long been excluded from government incentive programs, but that has now changed. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) makes certain tax credits available to nonprofits. (Yes, that is correct, tax credits for nonprofits even though they […]

Free

$ Even More Ways to Effectively Communicate with Your Church and Community with Kevin Slimp (ClergyEducation.com)

Online

This session is for everyone, no matter the size of your church or whether you’ve attended previous communications webinars by Kevin Slimp. If you’ve attended Kevin’s earlier webinar,  then this webinar is for you! It’s even for folks who haven’t attended the original session. And no one is left out. This webinar includes great information […]

$30

$ String of Prayers: Contemplating Protestant Prayer Beads with Anne Sims (Center for Leadership Excellence)

Online

The Center for Leadership Excellence presents a webinar sponsored in partnership with the Commission on the Status and Role Of Women (COSROW). Many different traditions have used prayer beads over the millennia, with the Catholic rosary the most well-known in Christian practice. Using a 33-bead model created in the 1980s, Protestants are exploring and enjoying this means of contemplative prayer. […]

$10
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