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Bring Your Team and Get Started with Messy Church

Events Published on
March 27, 2023

The NC Conference Evangelism & Discipleship Team, in partnership with the Center for Leadership Excellence, is hosting a Day of Learning that will equip you to start Messy Church gatherings in your congregation.

Messy Church is a program for all ages, helping church and community members to learn about Christ through games, crafts and activities, music, and storytelling from the Bible. We have a small number of spaces left for additional churches to join this event.

Note: This Day of Learning is for teams who are ready to get started with Messy Church. There must be at least 2 people attending from each church.

Get Started with Messy Church
Presented by the Center for Leadership Excellence
with the NC Conference Evangelism & Discipleship Team
and Johannah Myers

Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 9:30am – 3pm ET
Christ the King UMC (Clayton, NC)
$30 for a team of 2-5

About this Day of Learning:

This day-long training will cover everything your team needs to get started with Messy Church in your community!

During the morning session, we’ll explore the key building blocks of Messy Church – the values and main components. These are the foundations for building any Messy Church. With those basic building blocks, we’ll consider how you can adapt to your contextual needs, and we’ll experience a “mini” Messy Church together. Then, after sharing a meal, we’ll explore how to put the pieces together – from volunteers to publicizing.

When your team leaves, you will be fully equipped and resourced to start your own Messy Church!

Mini-Grant Opportunity: NC Conference churches who bring a team to this Day of Learning will be eligible to apply for one of ten $500 “mini-grants” to help your congregation start its own Messy Church. Details and an application form will be shared with teams who attend the training on May 2.

About Johannah Myers

Johannah Myers is the Associate Director of Messy Church USA. She also serves as the Director of Disciple Formation at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Greenville, SC, where she’s been since 2009. When she’s not leading Bible studies or talking about Messy Church, Johannah can most likely be found watching Duke basketball, planning her next trip, or hanging out with her Great Pyrenees Winifred.

Johannah has a B.A. in Psychology from Furman University and a M.Div from Duke Divinity School. In May 2019, Johannah received her Doctor of Ministry from Wesley Theological Seminary after studying with an international cohort at Wesley House, Cambridge UK. Her doctoral project was called “Practicing Faith Together: Messy Church and Disciple Formation” and focused on inter-generational discipleship.

Opioid Awareness Breakfast

Announcements, Events Published on
March 6, 2023

The Overdose Crisis: The Faith Community Responds in Fayetteville
Thursday, March 30, 9-11 a.m.
Saint Matthews United Methodist Church
202 Hope Mills Rd., Fayetteville
Join our Partners in Health and Wholeness initiative for a Clergy Breakfast in Fayetteville on Opioid Crisis, the Faith Community Responds. At this breakfast, you will learn about the impact in our state, what harm reduction is, and what congregations can do to get involved.
Click here to register.

A Webinar from the Financial Discipleship Committee and the Center for Leadership Excellence

Events Published on
February 28, 2023

The NCCUMC Financial Discipleship committee, in partnership with the Center for Leadership Excellence, presents a virtual workshop with Bonnie Marden…

Our world is experiencing both increasing wealth and increasing financial needs. Imagine the church as the mission bridge, changing the world with courageous invitations and generosity. As leaders, what do we need to know or learn to actively participate in funding God’s beloved community?

To increase your knowledge and experience cultivating donors, this virtual workshop is designed to equip and empower everyone to ask with courage. You already have the most important skills, and everything else you need can be learned. Whether you are experienced or terrified of “asking,” this workshop will equip you for courageous conversations that cultivate generosity to benefit your church and community.

Take a step toward your leadership potential to raise both resources and generosity!

Courage to Ask: What Your People Want to Hear
Presented by the NCCUMC Financial Discipleship committee
in partnership with the Center for Leadership Excellence
March 20, 2023, 1-3pm ET
Registration: $10

An Interactive Zoom Workshop – Although we do plan to record the meeting, this workshop is interactive and includes breakout rooms. Mark your calendars and plan to join us live to receive the full benefit of the material Bonnie has prepared for us.

Plus, NCCUMC clergy and laity who attend are eligible for a scholarship to attend Bonnie’s five session online training on donor cultivation (a $150 value, limited quantity available).

Learn More and Register

Webinar for Laity

Events Published on
February 24, 2023

The Center for Leadership Excellences presents a webinar specifically designed for UMC laity…

How can we, as United Methodists, utilize our present denomination’s challenges as a catalyst for joining Christ in mission? Dedicate an hour to reflect on how we can empower forward momentum in our churches.

Willimon will focus on the laity’s role in building a hope-filled United Methodist future. This webinar will remind us who we are called to be and encourage church leaders to rebuild a church focused on missional engagement and a renewed focus on discipleship.

Don’t Look Back: United Methodist Hope for the Future
Presented by the Center for Leadership Excellence
with Will Willimon
March 9, 2023, 7-8pm ET

About Will Willimon:

A bishop in the United Methodist Church, Professor Willimon served as the dean of Duke Chapel and professor of Christian ministry at Duke University for 20 years. He returned to Duke after serving as the bishop of the North Alabama Conference from 2004 to 2012. He has taught in Germany, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia in various seminaries. He is a trustee of Wofford College and Emory University, and serves on the Dean’s Committee of Yale Divinity School.

Willimon is the author of over 70 books. His Worship as Pastoral Care was selected as one of the 10 most useful books for pastors in 1979 by the Academy of Parish Clergy. More than a million copies of his books have been sold. His articles have appeared in many publications including Theology Today, Interpretation, Liturgy, and Christianity Today. He is editor-at-large for The Christian Century. His book Pastor: the Theology and Practice of Ordained Leadership is used in dozens of seminaries in the United States and Asia.

It’s Time for a United Methodist Renewal

Events Published on
February 13, 2023

“Church renewal” is widely discussed across Methodism today, but renewal will not happen apart from serious engagement with and from the margins of society.

Join us for a webinar with Edgardo Colón-Emeric as he shares with us from his new book and inspires us to learn from our Southern neighbors to rekindle our hearts in Christian hope and mission.

El Corazón Ardiente
for Renewing Doctrine, Worship, and Mission
Presented by the Center for Leadership Excellence
with Edgardo Colón-Emeric
February 15, 2023, 1-2pm ET

About the Webinar:

Dr. Colón-Emeric offers key insights drawn from his new book, The People Called Metodista: Renewing Doctrine, Worship, and Missions from the Margins. Following the pattern of the book, the webinar looks to the experiences of Methodists in Latin American pueblos and Hispanic barrios to open new conversations about doctrine, worship, and mission for the sake of social renewal. In true Wesleyan spirit, the flames of renewal do not confine themselves to Methodist institutions, but from the people called metodista they can spread, sharing in the Wesleyan movement’s fundamental calling to revitalize the church universal in its mission to the world. In this webinar, we hope for more than hearts “strangely warmed”—we hope for hearts ablaze, for corazones ardientes.

About Edgardo Colón-Emeric:

Dr. Edgardo Colón-Emeric is the Dean of Duke Divinity School and the Irene and William McCutchen Associate Professor of Reconciliation and Theology. He also serves as the director of the Center for Reconciliation at the Divinity School. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Colón-Emeric was the first Latino to be ordained as an elder in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church and was founding pastor of Cristo Vive UMC in Durham, N.C. He became founding director of the Hispanic House of Studies at Duke Divinity School in 2007 and joined the Divinity School faculty in 2008.

Colón-Emeric’s work explores the intersection of Methodist and Catholic theologies, and Wesleyan and Latin American experiences. His teaching covers a broad range of theological areas: systematics, Wesleyan theology, ecumenism, and Latin American theology. His latest book, The People Called Metodistas: Renewing Doctrine, Worship, and Mission from the Margins, was released in 2022.

Methodist Home for Children Sunday – Feb. 19

Announcements, Events Published on
February 7, 2023

Love and hope. We believe these are the two most powerful forces in the world. Invested in a child or a teen, these forces can change the course of a life – even generations that follow.

Your Methodist Home for Children (MHC) Sunday gifts on February 19 (or right now on the MHC Sunday giving site) will give kids in your community the chance for a better life.

This MHC Sunday, we introduce you to Ayden, who came to us as a young teen and aged out of our transitional living home for boys in December. You can see his story online at mhfc.org/Sunday, along with a recorded sermon by Rev. Bruce Stanley and other resources to share with your congregation.

Interested in inviting a speaker to your church or group? Contact Jennifer Cooper at jcooper@mhfc.org.

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