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  • Congregations For Children: The Next Decade

    At the 2023 NC Annual Conference, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of Congregations for Children, a laity-led ministry with a mission to support public schools and help children affected by poverty. We honored the past, and now we look to the future. C4C Areas of Focus In his groundbreaking bestseller, Seven Habits of Highly Effective…

  • C4C Announces Summer Literacy Program Grant Awards 2023

    Congregations for Children (C4C) is pleased to announce the recipients of its Summer Literacy Program Grants. These grants were awarded to NCCUMC churches that planned summer programs for low-income children to remediate and reinforce literacy skills and combat summer learning loss. The churches listed below received a total of over $15,400 in supplemental funding to…

  • 2023 Summer Literacy Grants

    Congregations for Children is accepting applications for supplementary funding for NC Conference churches that will remain as members of the NC Conference after July 1, 2023, that are planning to host summer literacy programs for elementary school-aged children. Aligned with our primary focus on kindergarten through third-grade literacy, we invite applications that demonstrate a focus…

  • School Board Elections Matter

    As we near Election Day on November 8, I am reminded of that oft-repeated saying attributed to former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tip O’Neill, “All politics is local.” One of the four focus areas of Congregations for Children is “Advocacy for Public Education,” and perhaps no elective office more closely links public…

  • From the Bishop: Enough

    From the Bishop: Enough

    Hearts once again struggle for words that will not come easily. Grief brought about by another senseless act of violence at the hands of a teenager with guns

  • “Our Faith, Our Children, Our Public Schools” Webinar

    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…