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Save the Dates for AC2024!
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Save the Dates!!
The 2024 Western NC Annual Conference will be held on June 20-23, 2024 at Lake Junaluska, NC.
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AC2023 Digital Photo Album Now Available
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AC2023 photos are now uploaded to our Flickr! See photos from the worship services, Retiree groups, Ordinands, Connect events, and more from the AC2023 weekend.
VIEW DIGITAL PHOTO ALBUM
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United Methodist Night at the Hickory Crawdads Baseball Game
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Mark your calendar for Friday, August 25th because it's United Methodist Night at the Hickory Crawdads Baseball Game! Get discounted tickets, free giveaways, fireworks, a UM choir singing the National Anthem, Bishop Carter throwing the first pitch, and more! More details coming soon.
WATCH PROMO VIDEO
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The WNC Board of Ordained Ministry is inviting you to help celebrate the years of faithful service of WNCC Retiring Clergy by making a gift to an initiative called Pass-the-Mantle, which will provide scholarships for WNCC seminary students.
Pass-the-Mantle is a partnership of the Western North Carolina Conference and the United Methodist Foundation of Western North Carolina. Each year, some funds will be immediately dispersed as scholarship awards that year, and others will be invested for long-term growth so they might multiply and benefit future generations of clergy. The gift (but not the amount) will be acknowledged to the honoree.
You can donate online using the link below or send a check payable to the United Methodist Foundation of Western North Carolina, with the pastor’s name in the memo line and mail it to: Pass-the-Mantle, 13816 Professional Center Dr, Suite 100, Huntersville, NC 28078.
DONATE NOW
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Means Of Grace Podcast: Looking Beyond and Reclaiming an Inclusive, Evangelical Church
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In this Means Of Grace episode, Jesse Enniss and Kim Ingram talk with WNCC clergy leaders and church pastors Brian Elwell, Mandy Jones, Karen Easter-Bayne, John Henry, Jr., and Mark Conforti about ways the church is changing and how ministry and leaders can adapt and respond differently.
LISTEN TO EPISODE
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Can You Tell the Story? With Bishop Sharma Lewis
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The last session of the preaching cohort is open to anyone interested in stimulating your boldness and imagination in order to offer congregants transformation versus just information.
Session will include:
-Highlights - cohort participants offering most significant learnings and tools drawn from previous sessions
-Insights from Bishop Lewis regarding her perspectives on the craft of preaching in the UMC in 2023, including how character, responsibility and accountability relate to preaching
-Question and Answer session with Bishop Lewis
-Lunch with Bishop Lewis and fellow cohort participants
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
In Person at Hood Theological Seminary Aymer Center - $20.00 registration (includes lunch)
Online Registration $10.00
LEARN MORE & REGISTER
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Apply Now for the Renfro Trust Fund Grant
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The Renfro Trust Fund awards annual bricks-and-mortar grants to small rural United Methodist congregations in the Southeastern Jurisdiction. Completed applications should be emailed to Carol Bateman (cbateman@wnccumc.org) in the office of Missional Engagement by August 1, 2023.
LEARN MORE & APPLY
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Did you miss the last edition of E-News?
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Welcome Rev. Jarrod Davis & Rev. Shannon LeMaster-Smith to Their New Positions on Conference Staff!
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We are pleased to announce that we have two updated positions on the WNC Conference Staff!
Rev. Jarrod Davis has been appointed to a newly created position of Creation Ministries Coordinator for both the North Carolina Conference (NCC) and the Western North Carolina Conference (WNCC) in a joint effort to enhance the Creation Care Ministry programs across the state.
Rev. Shannon LeMaster-Smith will expand her role with the conference, assuming additional responsibilities as the Youth and Children’s Ministry Strategist for the Western North Carolina Conference.
READ THEIR BIOS
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New Appointment? How to Smooth the Transition
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The excitement and joy of a new appointment are often combined with uncertainty and stress. Wespath offers some great resources to make the transition easier for you and your family.
RESOURCES
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3-Day Trauma Resilient Communities Engagement Training
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Crossnore Communities for Children is excited to partner with Lake Junaluska’s Theologian in Residence Program to bring its full 3-day Trauma Resilient Communities Engagement Training to Lake Junaluska this summer. Join us and learn how to become a more resilient and healing-centered faith community.
The workshop will be Monday-Wednesday, July 17-19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
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Antiracism Work: Intentional Learning, Intentional Action
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Check out this article from United Methodist Communications that features our very own Andrea Gauldin-Rubio!
United Methodist Andrea Gauldin-Rubio, director of Christian Education at Bunker Hill United Methodist Church who grew up in the rural south, shares about examining her biases and recognizing white privilege, while acknowledging that anti-racism work should be ongoing and focused as much on action as on education.
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Western North Carolina Conference
13924 Professional Center Dr, Ste 200
Huntersville, NC 28078
Mailing Address:
PO Box 2757
Huntersville, NC 28070
Phone: 704.535.2260
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