Saturday, August 4, 2018
The First Annual Hood Theological Seminary
Center for Chaplaincy Workshop-Asheville
St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church
44 Hildebrand Street, Asheville, NC 28801
10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Theme: “Amazing Grace - Its Means and Ways”
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Friday, September 14, 2018
Opening Convocation
The Aymer Center
6:00 pm
Reverend Dr. Robert C. Scott is the speaker for this service which marks the beginning of the academic year and is a time when the Seminary community joins together asking God’s guidance throughout the coming academic year. It is also a time that new students sign their names in a document which serves as a part of the historical record of the Seminary. The public is invited to attend the service.
The service will be preceded by a heavy hors d'oeuvre reception in The Aymer Center from 5:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
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Saturday, August 4, 2018
Pray Rowan
Saleeby-Fisher YMCA
790 Crescent Rd, Rockwell
10 to 11 a.m.
Pray Rowan, a group of sinners who are righteous and redeemed because of the blood of Jesus Christ, will come together to pray for the community. This is their 11th prayer gathering. All are cordially invited!! Read more about Pray Rowan on their
Facebook page
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And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25
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September 20 - November 17, 2018
FAITHFUL FAMILIES: EATING SMART AND MOVING MORE
Hood Seminary campus (room TBD)
Session 1: Thursdays from 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Session 2: Saturdays from 8:45 - 10:00 a.m.
For clergy and other church leadership as well as any individuals interested in offering wellness related activities to their congregation and family. This 9-week class connects healthy eating and physical activity to religious or spiritual beliefs. Presented by Cabarrus Health Alliance's
Lifestyle Medicine for Your Wellness Ministry
. Free registration is now open! Read more
here
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The Bishop James Walker Hood
Endowed Premier Scholarships
HTS is pleased to announce the Bishop James Walker Hood Endowed Premier Scholarship Fund which awards scholarships to new and current full-time students
on a competitive basis to those who exemplify academic excellence. The level of scholarship assistance depends on the quality of your academic record and the availability of funds.
Criteria:
Applicants must maintain a 3.3 GPA or higher per academic year, should exhibit leadership in the church and/or community, and should embrace the vision of effective ministry in a diverse and global society. Scholarships are awarded only to degree-seeking students.
The deadline for scholarship applications is
August 14, 2018. Download the application
here.
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Scenes from the
24th Quadrennial Christian Education Convention of the A.M.E. Zion Church
in Birmingham, Alabama July 21 - 26. HTS alumni and prospective students gathered on the 24th
for a reception
co-hosted by HTS, Livingstone College and Clinton College.
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A.M.E. ASPIRE CONFERENCE
HTS alumni
Robert Kennedy
(left),
Harold Wilson
(below left) and
Robert Taylor
(below right) stopped by the HTS table during the A.M.E. ASPIRE/Christian Education Conference in Greenville, SC, August 1-4.
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A special preaching event on August 2 in the Chapel offered diverse, inspiring sermons from
Mandy Singleton, Dierdre Parker and Rona Watson
(front row, left to right)
.
Dr. David Schnasa Jacobsen
(back row, center)
of Boston School of Theology, friend and collaborator of
Dr. André Resner
(left)
, was visiting to join in the post-sermon theological reflection.
President Vergel Lattimore
is pictured
at
right.
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Aaron Duncan
, MDiv '18, graciously donated this painting to the Seminary. Aaron said, "
As a part of my final project for Dr. Mary Love's "CE in the Arts" class, I worked with a local artist from Lexington, NC, to bring to life a "Faith Versus Fear" painting. The artwork is unique because the canvas is actually five sheets of Skateboard griptape put together.
The local artist (Gina) from So Stoked Skateshop of Lexington helped me transpose the ending of Mark's Gospel (Mark 16:1-8) onto skateboard griptape. Inspiration for the text was from Dr. Resner's class entitled "Reading Mark for Preaching Gospel." My dream for future ministry in the Methodist Church and Church Universal is with the marginalized Skateboard community, in which Faith will have the final work over Fear."
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Rev. Janice Cooper
, MDiv '13, was featured in a recent article in the Shelby (NC) Star about her role as a hospice chaplain for Cleveland County. Read the story
here
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Rev. Flavian Coleman
, MDiv ‘17,
(center)
was installed as Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Ridgeway, SC,
on Sunday, June 24, 2018. Pictured here with Rev. Coleman is HTS alumna Rev. Janet Garner-Mullins,’14
(right)
, and
Rev. Kay Spann Byrd
(left)
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Congratulations to
Ladale Benson,
M.Div. '15, who has been appointed the new Staff Chaplain at Mint Hill Medical Center/Novant Health.
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HTS welcomes
Dr. Zenobia B. Fennell
who has joined the faculty as
Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Theology
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Dr. Fennell is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a B. A. in Political Science. She earned a Master of Divinity degree at the Wake Forest School of Divinity where she was named the 2007 recipient of The Ashley and Whitney Walker Award, an honor given to students who demonstrate academic excellence with a particular concern for woman-centered issues. She continued her theological training by earning a Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary in 2017 with a concentration in leadership development, and studied ways in which faith communities can effectively develop leaders via the use of pastoral care modalities.
Read her full profile
here
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Dr. Vergel Lattimore
,
President
,
will be the Resource Leader for a Marriage/Relationship Enrichment Retreat that will be held at the Friday Center Courtyard in Chapel Hill, NC, August 17 - 18, 2018.
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Dr. Sharon Grant
, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity,
traveled to the 2018 World Methodist Council meeting in Seoul, South Korea. The WMC convened from July 12-16. The Council focused on Peace and Reconciliation on the Korean peninsula and moving toward consensus based discernment.
Professor Grant is a delegate for the 2016- 2021 Quinquennium from the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She works with the Theological Education Committee chaired by Dr. Paul Swarup of the Methodist Church in India (pictured above with Dr. Grant).
Photos below: Dr. Grant with A.M.E. Zion
Bishops Darryl Starnes
and
George Crenshaw
and the Kwanglin Methodist Church in Seoul.
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Dr. Ashley Dreff,
Director of United Methodist Studies and Student Recruitment,
and
Rev. Thomas Grinter,
Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies and A.M.E. Zion Studies,
will participate in the 14th Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies August 12-19 at Pembroke College of Oxford University in Oxford, England. This important gathering of top professionals in the field is held once every five years and is sponsored by the British Methodist Church and the World Methodist Council. Dreff is assigned to the working group on Methodist History and Grinter to the Biblical Studies working group.
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SHOW YOUR HOOD PRIDE!
Get your Hood gear
online! Shirts, jackets, hats, etc. available.
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Create Your Legacy with a Planned Gift
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Do you have an IRA?
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Are you at least 70 1/2 years of age?
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Would you like to help HTS in its mission to
prepare women and men for bold and creative leadership for the Christian church for a diverse world
?
If you answered ''Yes" to all three questions, please consider an IRA Charitable Rollover.
In an IRA Charitable Rollover, the distribution of up to $100,000 annually made directly from the IRA custodian to a qualifying public charity, such as HTS, is excluded from gross income and counts toward the required minimum distribution.
For more information, contact John Everett at jeverett@hoodseminary.edu or (704) 636-6545, or visit our
Planned Giving
website for lots of helpful information.
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Hood's Herald - Vol.XVI
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It's so easy to
donate securely online
! Or mail your check to the Seminary at 1810 Lutheran Synod Dr., Salisbury, NC 28144. Your gift to the Annual Fund is essential in promoting the mission of the Seminary and in helping keep tuition as low as possible for our students.
Every
gift, small and large, is greatly appreciated and stewarded responsibly.
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PLANNED GIVING
Create your legacy through a planned gift by remembering Hood Theological Seminary in a bequest or will with gifts of stocks and bonds, gifts of real estate or personal property, life insurance, charitable trust, retirement funds/IRA or life income gifts. By making a planned gift, you will become a member of the
Hood Legacy Society.
Visit the new
Planned Giving website for helpful information and valuable resources to help you determine the ideal planned giving option for you. For more information contact John C. Everett, Director, Institutional Advancement, at 704-636-6545.
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1810 Lutheran Synod Drive
Salisbury, NC 28144
704-636-7611
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