Appalachian District

  May and June workshops still have spaces available. Blue Ridge District will NOT be hosting a district-specific workshop this fall. As a reminder,...

Improve your financial security and provide your very best ministry to the congregations you serve through the Clergy Debt Reduction Loan Program. Many of your peers in our Conference are saving an average of $350 per month by refinancing through the program at a low of rate of 1.5 percent. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, Aug. 31.

Hood Theological Seminary will hold its annual Ruben L. Speaks Endowed Memorial Lecture Series on Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8, 2022. This year’s featured presenter is Dr. Teresa L. Fry Brown. For Dr. Fry Brown’s bio go here: https://candler.emory.edu/faculty/profiles/fry-brown-teresa.html The lectures, which are free of charge and open to the public, will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 7 and 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 8. This year the lecture series will be virtual through Zoom. Go here for information: https://www.hoodseminary.edu/news/fall-2022-speaks-lecture-series. Zoom links are forthcoming and will be posted on the Hood website.

Gregory M. Alcorn will be the speaker for Hood Theological Seminary’s Opening Convocation on September 16, 2022 at 6:00 pm. Mr. Alcorn is Founder and C.E.O. of Global Contact Services (GCS); Co-founder (with his wife, Missie) of ApSeed Early Childhood Education, and Author of The 7 Dumb Things We All Say. The public is welcome to attend this special service which is also free of charge. This will be a virtual event.