Parents, Youth Workers and Youth are invited to a virtual information meeting about the NEW Conference Youth Summer Camp, called NCCUMC Youth Week, July 11-16th. Camp organizers Julia Royall Johnson and Lydia Cauley, will host the meeting Monday, May 9th form 7:00pm – 8:00pm.
Please register to attend the meeting using the following link CLICK HERE. We look forward to seeing you all there and sharing more about NCCUMC Youth Week!
We invite you to NCCUMC Youth Week! Our theme is Salts of the Earth. Scripture tells us that “[we] are the salt of the earth”. We’ll spend time at Youth Week using this powerful image to explore and connect to all the ways we spread the word of God and share our faith with the world around us. Please check out the NCCUMC Youth Week for more information. To register for this event, please go to Youth Registration, deadline to register is June 19, 2022.
How does the prophet Micah’s call for us “to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God” apply to the ways we serve and advocate for our low-income children who attend our public schools in North Carolina? Why should all people of faith care about the health of our public schools? How can we honor our Wesleyan heritage and actively support public school children and educators in our own communities?
Save the date and plan to join us for the free webinar “Our Faith, Our Children, Our Public Schools” sponsored by NCCUMC on Tuesday, May 3, at 7:00PM. Watch for registration and other program details coming soon!
Update: watch the recording of the webinar!
The spring meeting of the North Carolina Conference Historical Society and Commission on Archives & History will take place on Saturday, April 9, 2022, at the NCC United Methodist Conference Building in Garner, NC.
The Society will meet at 10:00 am and adjourn for lunch at noon. The Commission will meet after lunch. Our speaker will be Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff, General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History of the UMC. In this role, she ensures that the UMC understands its past in order to envision a more equitable future for all Methodists. Dreff earned her PhD from Drew Theological School’s Graduate Division of Religion, specializing in both Methodist/Wesleyan Studies and Women’s/Gender Studies. She earned an M.A. from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, specializing in American Religious History. She has previously worked as staff at the General Commission on Archives and History (2012-2014) and the Connectional Table of The United Methodist Church (2014-2016). She was the Director of United Methodist Studies and Assistant Professor Christian History at Hood Theological Seminary (Salisbury, NC), an AME Zion Seminary, from 2017-2019 and was the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion at High Point University (High Point, NC) from 2019-2020. Dreff is a lay member of the Arkansas Annual Conference and the daughter of two ordained United Methodist ministers. Her Methodist lineage dates beyond this, back to the early 19th century when her great-great-great grandfathers were Methodist circuit-riders. She is the author of Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights (2020) and Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality (2018).
The focus will be on the proposed split in the UMC that will be voted on at the next General Conference of the UMC and how the General Commission plans to handle the split if approved and maintain our United Methodist and the archives for a possible new Methodist denomination.
In the context of America’s rising Christian nationalism, pastors and church leaders face a particular challenge: how to navigate the hot-button issues that are being used to divide people while leading public witness at a moment when many see faith as a principal driver of division.
In response to this challenge, the NC Conference is partnering with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to offer a 4-session seminar designed to help church leaders understand the history and culture of Christian nationalism, analyze how their own congregation and community is impacted by it, and develop practices for growth in public moral witness.
This opportunity is open to the first 32 NC Conference clergy who register. The NC Conference’s Office of Race, Equity, and Justice Ministries is covering $75 toward the total registration, making the cost to you $25 for the full four-week seminar. Plan to attend all sessions so that you can engage in continued conversations weekly. If you have a conflict for one of the meeting dates, let us know and we will record the session and send you the link. Registration closes April 1 or once all 32 slots are filled.
Participants will:
Moral Leadership in Public Life
A Four-Session Journey to Pentecost for NC Conference Clergy
Presented by the Center for Leadership Excellence
with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
April 26, May 3, May 10, and May 17, 1-2pm EST
About Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove:
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a celebrated spiritual writer and sought-after speaker. A native of North Carolina, he is a graduate of Eastern University and Duke Divinity School. He lives with his family at the Rutba House, a Christian community and house of hospitality, in Durham, North Carolina. He directs School for Conversion and serves on the Steering Committee of the Poor People’s Campaign. Follow him on Twitter @wilsonhartgrove.
The Annual Conference Planning Committee has chosen to move forward with an in-person Annual Conference to be held at the Greenville Convention Center, June 15-18, understanding we may have to make changes depending on health conditions later this spring.
Please know we plan to take appropriate health and safety precautions. Masks are strongly recommended and vaccinations encouraged.
Visit the Hotels page to see current rates and options. We are exploring ECU housing and will be adding other hotels soon.
If you plan to organize a Special Meal for a group or organization, complete the form online by May 9.
If you would like to have a display table, please fill out the request form by May 15. Currently, we have space for 40 displays to create distance between the tables. Displays are for United Methodist-related organizations only.
More information and updates will be posted on the AC 2022 website.
