by UMC LEAD | Aug 2, 2020
Michelle Matthews shares on the LEAD stage a story of encountering, in Turkey, a broken, weathered, ancient Jesus statue, looking over his ruin of a church. Sound familiar to you? Learn how the church is uniquely qualified to offer gifts of the uniqueness of God, the...
by UMC LEAD | Aug 2, 2020
Does anyone else long to talk with others about the realness of ministry? The real work of ministry is hard. It’s beautiful. It’s complicated. It is so many paradoxes all rolled up into the sacred and holy. Jennifer Casey takes the LEAD stage to share about the...
by UMC LEAD | Aug 2, 2020
When was the last time, “What do you want to be?” was a fun, exciting question? Sophia Agtarap takes to the LEAD stage to encourage us to follow our curiosity and to say “yes” to the “what if”.
by UMC LEAD | Aug 2, 2020
If the ship is just sinking, we will continue to do what we’ve been doing in the United Methodist Church for years. We just move up to a higher level as the bottom of the vessel continues to submerge. Fire reminds us of the fierce urgency of the moment, and of the...
by UMC LEAD | Aug 2, 2020
In the United Methodist Church, we have a pattern of waiting until it’s too late to have difficult conversations. Lorrin Radzik takes to the LEAD stage to offer her talk titled “Resurrection Hope: Church Closure and a Faithful Future.” In her talk,...
by UMC LEAD | Jul 7, 2020
At General Conference 2019, a new baby was born. Giving birth isn’t much fun until the baby arrives – the new baby is here. Dottie Escobedo-Frank gives us glimpes of a new thing in her LEAD talk.