Program Schedule
| 2018 Annual Conference Schedule | ||
| Go... and Teach Them | ||
| Matthew 28:16-20 | ||
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| Thursday, June 21 | ||
| 3:00 | Executive Session of Clergy Members | |
| ¶ 605.6 – “The actions of the clergy session shall be for and on behalf of the annual conference” |
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| Friday, June 22 | ||
| 7:30 | Prayer Service, Memorial Chapel | |
| 10:30 | Opening Worship: Go and Teach | |
| Bishop Sandra Steiner-Ball, West Virginia Conference, preaching | ||
| Bishop Paul Leeland, liturgist | ||
| The offering will go toward Bennett College | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch Recess | |
| 1:30 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Opening Hymn and Prayer | ||
| Call to Order | ||
| Welcome from Lake Junaluska | ||
| Procedural Matters, Elections for Conference, and Consent Calendar | ||
| Plan of Organization and Rules | ||
| Committee on Nominations | ||
| Opening Remarks from Bishop Leeland | ||
| The Duke Endowment | ||
| Church Vitality | ||
| 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:30 | Order of the Day: Recognition of Retiring Clergy | |
| 4:15 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Board of Laity (including Laity Address, UMW, UMM, UMY) | ||
| Constitutional Amendment | ||
| 5:30 | Dinner Recess | |
| 7:30 | Worship Service: Commissioning of Provisional Members | |
| Bishop Alfred W. Gwinn, Jr., United Methodist Bishop (ret), preaching | ||
| Saturday, June 23 | ||
| 7:30 | Prayer Service, Memorial Chapel | |
| 8:30 | Order of Morning Prayer | |
| 8:45 | Annual Meeting of the Membership of the UM Foundation of WNC | |
| 9:15 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Conference Council on Finance and Administration | ||
| 2019 Conference Budget | ||
| The Commission on the Way Forward, Bishop Ken Carter | ||
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Worship Service: Celebration of Life | |
| Rev. Jan Brittain, Williamson's Chapel UMC, preaching | ||
| 12:15 | Lunch Recess | |
| 1:45 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Conference Board of Trustees | ||
| Conference Board of Pension | ||
| Committee on Episcopacy | ||
| Brotherhood-Sisterhood | ||
| Connectional Ministries | ||
| 3:45 | Break | |
| 4:15 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Cabinet Resolutions | ||
| Petitions | ||
| 5:30 | Dinner Recess | |
| 7:30 | Worship Service: Ordination of Deacons and Elders | |
| Bishop Alfred W. Gwinn, Jr., United Methodist Bishop (ret), preaching | ||
| Bishop Paul Leeland, liturgist | ||
| Sunday, June 24 | ||
| 10:00 | Closing Worship Service: What Are We To Teach? | |
| Bishop Paul Leeland, preaching | ||
| Fixing of the Appointments and Sending Forth | ||
| Adjournment of the 2018 Annual Conference, sine die | ||
| The offering will go toward the Lake Junaluska Bridge Restoration | ||
| 2018 Annual Conference Schedule | ||
| Go... and Teach Them | ||
| Matthew 28:16-20 | ||
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| Thursday, June 21 | ||
| 3:00 | Executive Session of Clergy Members | |
| ¶ 605.6 – “The actions of the clergy session shall be for and on behalf of the annual conference” |
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| Friday, June 22 | ||
| 7:30 | Prayer Service, Memorial Chapel | |
| 10:30 | Opening Worship: Go and Teach | |
| Bishop Sandra Steiner-Ball, West Virginia Conference, preaching | ||
| Bishop Paul Leeland, liturgist | ||
| The offering will go toward Bennett College | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch Recess | |
| 1:30 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Opening Hymn and Prayer | ||
| Call to Order | ||
| Welcome from Lake Junaluska | ||
| Procedural Matters, Elections for Conference, and Consent Calendar | ||
| Plan of Organization and Rules | ||
| Committee on Nominations | ||
| Opening Remarks from Bishop Leeland | ||
| The Duke Endowment | ||
| Church Vitality | ||
| 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:30 | Order of the Day: Recognition of Retiring Clergy | |
| 4:15 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Board of Laity (including Laity Address, UMW, UMM, UMY) | ||
| Constitutional Amendment | ||
| 5:30 | Dinner Recess | |
| 7:30 | Worship Service: Commissioning of Provisional Members | |
| Bishop Alfred W. Gwinn, Jr., United Methodist Bishop (ret), preaching | ||
| Saturday, June 23 | ||
| 7:30 | Prayer Service, Memorial Chapel | |
| 8:30 | Order of Morning Prayer | |
| 8:45 | Annual Meeting of the Membership of the UM Foundation of WNC | |
| 9:15 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Conference Council on Finance and Administration | ||
| 2019 Conference Budget | ||
| The Commission on the Way Forward, Bishop Ken Carter | ||
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Worship Service: Celebration of Life | |
| Rev. Jan Brittain, Williamson's Chapel UMC, preaching | ||
| 12:15 | Lunch Recess | |
| 1:45 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Conference Board of Trustees | ||
| Conference Board of Pension | ||
| Committee on Episcopacy | ||
| Brotherhood-Sisterhood | ||
| Connectional Ministries | ||
| 3:45 | Break | |
| 4:15 | Conference Plenary - Business Session | |
| Cabinet Resolutions | ||
| Petitions | ||
| 5:30 | Dinner Recess | |
| 7:30 | Worship Service: Ordination of Deacons and Elders | |
| Bishop Alfred W. Gwinn, Jr., United Methodist Bishop (ret), preaching | ||
| Bishop Paul Leeland, liturgist | ||
| Sunday, June 24 | ||
| 10:00 | Closing Worship Service: What Are We To Teach? | |
| Bishop Paul Leeland, preaching | ||
| Fixing of the Appointments and Sending Forth | ||
| Adjournment of the 2018 Annual Conference, sine die | ||
| The offering will go toward the Lake Junaluska Bridge Restoration | ||