by Rob Rynders | Dec 21, 2016
Rob chats with Rev. DJ Del Rosario of Bothell UMC and April Casperson of Methodist Theological School of Ohio, about their LEAD 2012 talk. There’s still time to register for the 2017 UMC LEAD Conference. Click here for more...
by UMC LEAD | Dec 5, 2016
Missiongathering Charlotte and the Hyatt Place Downtown Hotel will host the 2017 LEAD conference from January 22-25 in Charlotte, NC. LEAD is an innovative experience for leaders in ministry where the participants provide much of the content. This includes TED-style...
by UMC LEAD | Nov 4, 2016
Life for Rori Francis Blakeney can be best described as a jazz improvisation. You never know what you are going to get, but you play the best song you can. Originally hailing from Washington, DC, Rori journeyed to Atlanta to study at Morehouse College, where he had...
by UMC LEAD | Nov 2, 2016
Rev. Brandon Wrencher is from a small town in the Sandhills area of North Carolina. Since 2013 he has been serving in Western North Carolina in a cross-racial appointment as pastor of Blackburns’ Chapel United Methodist Church, a once dying rural church that in a few...
by UMC LEAD | Oct 17, 2016
Eilidh Lowery is a pastor’s kid who wanted to become a civil rights lawyer and ended up as a high heel collecting new start pastor instead. When she’s not leading tours as a docent at the Portland Art Museum, Eilidh spends time advocating for reproductive...
by UMC LEAD | Aug 29, 2016
By Kenneth Pruitt In May of last year over at Ministry Matters, I began calling us to create a new theology of White allyship, a practical theology that proclaims, without equivocation, that Black lives matter. We now arrive at perhaps the least understood and least...