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Homegrown: NC Women’s Preaching Festival

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RCWMS is excited to sponsore the 2014 Homegrown: NC Women’s Preaching Festival.

In October of 2012 and again in 2013, over 65 North Carolina clergy women gathered for two days of celebrating, learning, worshiping, and community building. Participants commented that the festival was “refreshing,” “healing,” and “overwhelmingly wonderful.” Attendees represented the African Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist, Mennonite, Moravian, Non-denominational, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Holiness, and Quaker traditions. They served as solo pastors in rural congregations, associate pastors in urban settings, chaplains in hospitals, senior pastors of multi-staff congregations, professors, students, lay preachers, and executive directors of non-profits. We hope you will want to add your name to the list and join us for a celebration of proclamation!

Join us for the third annual NC Women’s Preaching Festival to be held October 23-24, 2014 at Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church in Durham, NC. Click HERE to register! Cost is $40.00 general, $10 for students, and free for all Duke Divinity Women Students.

About Jeanette Stokes

The day Jeanette graduated from Duke Divinity School in 1977, she turned to some friends and said, “They’ll be sorry.” With only had an inkling of what she would do next, she felt sure it would have something to do with women, faith, and social justice. A few months later, she and friends founded the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South, where she serves as the Executive Director. Not sure whether anyone was ever sorry they granted Jeanette and M.Div., she is sure that the last four decades of trying to change the landscape of religion in American has had at least some marginal effect. Mostly her work has offered solace and support to others on the journey. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma and a graduate of Smith College, Jeanette is the author of three collections of essays, 25 Years in the Garden, 35 Years on the Path, and Just Keep Going, and three memoirs, Hurricane Season: Living Through a Broken Heart, Flying Over Home, and Following a Female Line. She is happier if she spends some time each week walking, writing, painting, and messing around in the garden.

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