"I pray..., that you may be strengthened in your inner being ..., and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray ... that you may be filled with the fullness of God." [Ephesians 3:16-19 / suggested reading in preparation for Annual Gathering]
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Rooted in Christ: Building Relationships through Love and Service
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above photos: Images from April 10 SOC Board Meeting (including Rev. Edward Davis, Rev. Lilton Marks, Linda Carter, and Rev. Tammerie Day), separated by spring wild flowers photographed at Johns River Valley Camp
Rev. Davis Calls Conference to a Month of Prayer in Preparation for Annual Gathering
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Lynn Carman Bodden: Enliven our congregations and fill us with your Spirit of hope and action. ... Strengthen our Designated Conference Minister for the challenging work that lies in serving among us and leading us forward.
Warren Cassiday: Sometimes, it is too easy to get myopic about little things in life and ignore the big picture. Forgive us, ....
Linda Clark: Please shower us with your love!
Mahalia W. Clark: Give us clean hearts, refreshed minds, and willing spirits to serve you with unity in our diversities.
Jean L. Copeland: Give us strength each day to be a light in the world and to always worship you in spirit and truth.
Nora Driver Foust: We pray too, for patience God. Change does not and should not happen overnight....
Carla Gregg: O God, we have proclaimed your generosity, now help us live into believing that claim is true, not just for us but for all, not just here but everywhere, not just now but for forevermore.
Wanda Hunt: Be with our understandings, and courage given and received, make us wise and use our individual and collective strengths - Your strength, Our Immortal, and Invisible - One, "with all our ways." (Psalm 138, v. 3).
Brenda Dalton James: Help me to remember that nothing is impossible for you to solve.
Dale Kennedy: We pray that we who are the Southern Conference may be given grace to meet all the challenges of the present day, vision and courage to go forward into the days to come, and love to keep us in favor with you and with all who share the journey with us.
Doug Long: Draw us together, Great God;
Not bound together by rigid belief, or simplistic statements or crusty creeds; But bound together in love, and deep appreciation and need for one another.
Lilton J. Marks, Sr.: God of Host please hear my prayer. I solicit your guidance in helping set the 'Way Ahead' for the Southern Conference.
Gail D. McAfee: Lord, please touch our hearts today. Allow us to see “ the Vision,” and cause us to join in the joy of discipleship, .... we, the people of the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ, .... a people of faith, renewed, strengthened ....
Richard W. McBride: Our circle is too small; our inclusion too meager... We confess our sin of excluding those whom You have already included.
Yvonne Riddick: We thank you for your love and out of that love, give us patience; out of that love give us discernment; ....
Jerry Rhyne: Still speaking God speak to us a word of hope that will bring unity to all that we are and do in the name of the one we call Jesus.
Bill Smith: We confess, as we prepare for the 2012 Gathering of our Conference, that we have failed to maintain our unity in the bond of peace.
Margie Weavil: Help me to express gratitude for the qualities within the people around me, and not merely the things they do.
SOC Annual Gathering Scheduled for June 14, 15, 16, at Holiday Inn, Salisbury
Theme... "Rooted in Christ: Building Relationships through Love and Service "
Meeting documents will be posted as available
By-laws amendment: Electronic Meetings
Closing session will be conducted in Omwake-Dearborn Chapel on Catawba's campus. Registration details will be forthcoming.
Rev. Davis Connects with Clergy at District Meetings
Above photo: Rev. Edward Davis speaks to Catawba District Ministers at a May meeting hosted by United Church Homes and Services (Abernethy Laurels). Davis has been criss-crossing the Conference, sharing his vision for the Southern Conference, and listening to any who would gather with him in these audiences.
Workshops and Conferences ... details on Calendar Page
Johns River Valley Camp announces summer camp schedule for 2012; plus... Mothers' Retreat scheduled for April 20-22.
May 2012 - UCC News Feed
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