Annual Conference 2023

AC2023 Livestreams Available Below!!

Click the buttons below to take you to the AC2023 livestreams. We will be livestreaming from our YouTube channel as well as our Facebook page. Livestreams will only show up on these channels when there is a worship service or business session going on. Check the schedule HERE to know when livestreams are available.

Clergy Session - June 15, 2023
Annual Conference - June 16-18, 2023

The 2023 Western North Carolina Annual Conference meeting will be held at Lake Junaluska, June 15-18. While the conference will be livestreamed for at-home viewing, registration and full participation (including voting) will ONLY happen in person.

WNC clergy who are in full connection, provisional members, associate members, and local pastors are required to attend the Western North Carolina Annual Conference meeting, June 15-18, 2023. Annual Conference will be live-streamed for at-home viewing, but registration and full participation (including voting) is only possible in person.

If you are not able to attend in person, please request an excused absence.
You can make that request HERE.

Clergy who are retired or are on leave of absence are automatically excused if they are not able to attend.

If you are a lay member of conference representing your local church/charge and find that you cannot attend, please pass this material to your pastor, who will give it to the alternate lay member. Member information should be updated by your pastor or church staff directly in the Church Leaders page of the Church Dashboard until June 1st.

District at-large members who can’t come should notify their district office.

Thank you for your faithful ministry and leadership in the conference and the kingdom.

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UMRA WNCC Breakfast

6/5/2023

You are invited to breakfast at Maggie Valley UMC Saturday June 17th at 7:30 AM for the UMRA and Town and Country of WNCC.

Creation Care at Annual Conference and Summer Tips

6/1/2023

Are you attending Annual Conference this month? If so, we invite you to stop by our table display that will be located outside – between Harrell Center and Stuart Auditorium. We will have artwork on display of the top three winners in each category for our “Caring for God’s Creation” themed art contest, along with a solar-powered phone charging station and numerous native plant seedlings that are available “free to a good home.”    Additionally, we will have information about some upcoming ...

Youth Meet-Up at Annual Conference

5/31/2023

Youth attending Annual Conference are invited to meet up at the Purple Youth Tent in front of Stuart Auditorium.

Missional Music: Jazz and Storytelling at Annual Conference

5/25/2023

Greg Jarrell, vocalist Dawn Anthony, and the Carolina Social Music Club offer a 90-minute interactive program of music, readings, corporate singing, and art to inspire all to create spaces for justice and belonging.   Readings will be offered from Greg's book, A Riff of Love: Notes on Community & Belonging and will be available for purchase.   This event is being hosted by the Missional Collective: A growing collective of individuals who are cultivating lives of experiential neighboring and made...

Registration for Child Care at Annual Conference Is Now Open

5/25/2023

Do you need child care at Annual Conference 2023? Don't delay - registration closes on June 1st.   Click here to download the child care flyer. Register Here →  

AC2023 Program and Reports Book now online!

5/23/2023

The 2023 Annual Conference Program and Reports Book is available online. Clergy and Lay Members of the 2023 Annual Conference are invited to read about the ministries of the Western North Carolina Conference.

The Listening Post: AC 2023

5/18/2023

The Listening Post is back for Annual Conference 2023. Partners in Health and Wholeness in collaboration with CareNet Counseling are offering listening sessions, and mental health assessments at the annual conferences of both the Western North Carolina Conference and North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Meet the Lay Delegate Nominees

5/17/2023

Get to know the candidates that were nominated to fill the Lay Delegate positions that are open for the 2024 General Conference. We will vote on these candidates at Annual Conference 2023 in June.