Corridor District

Loving People and Planet in God’s Name
2024-07-27 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Elon First UMC, 1630 Westbrok Avenue, Elon, North Carolina, 27244
The Corridor district Lay Servant Ministries team presents the Loving People and Planet in God’s Name Course with Jane Almon and Kellie Gallagher…

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in person ( includes vegetarian lunch)

Order Your Book!
All participants are expected to read the participant book, Climate Justice A Call to Hope and Action, before taking this course.
About the Course: This course empowers lay participants to engage local churches in creation care and environmental justice. Lay participants will see this work as the appropriate response of disciples of Jesus Christ to the realities of climate change. Using the new revised second edition of Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action, this course helps communities grow deeper in their faith through the caring creation of practical and context-specific spiritual practices that mitigate the effects of reckless human consumption.
For questions about the course, please contact Vicki Ambrose (vambrose@nccumc.org), or Allen Burden (ga57burden@gmail.com), Corridor district co-directors of Lay Servant Ministries.
About the Facilitators

The Rev. Jane Almon is an Elder in the North Carolina Conference, retiring in June 2024 after 13 years of pastoral ministry. Before she was a pastor, Jane was an ecologist and worked on ecological restoration and watershed assessment projects and environmental impact studies. Her call to ministry came in part in that context as she saw how the separation of humans from God and God’s good creation was contributing to the destruction of ecosystems and communities.

Jane serves on the Conference and Corridor District Creation Care Teams, and is passionate about joining with others to proclaim God’s vision for the flourishing all of creation. She walks in the woods every chance she gets, enjoying the beauty and rhythms of the natural world and keeping up her birding and plant identification skills.

The Rev. Kellie Gallagher is originally from Oconto Falls, Wisconsin. A graduate of St. Olaf College and Duke Divinity School, Kellie is an ordained elder in the NC Conference of the UMC. Kellie has served in the NC Conference as a pastor for 28 years at Pine View UMC in Lumberton, Lucama UMC, Bailey/Pleasant Grove UMC (Associate), Trinity UMC in Louisburg and Gillburg UMC. She is currently serving as the pastor of First UMC Elon. First Elon has an active Creation Care ministry that has engaged in community gardening and currently provides opportunities for the church and local community to drop off Styrofoam for recycling in a trailer in the church parking lot. We also have recycling bins in the church for batteries, eyeglasses, soda tabs, ink cartridges and coffee pods. The CAT (Creation Advocacy Team) at Elon has written letters to legislators encouraging the passage of the Farm Bill and gun reform laws as well as sharing monthly CAT tips of ways the congregation can be better stewards of God’s creation.
Kellie and her husband Paul (retired) live in Whitsett. They enjoy spending time at the beach, fishing and canoeing. Kellie loves to read and she and Paul are fans of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team. Kellie has two grown children, Dottie and Wilson.

Thank you for your interest. Registration for this course has closed. If you believe you have time to order and read the book prior to class and would like to request an exception to register late, please contact cle@nccumc.org.
We regret that we are unable to issue refunds or credits of registration fees.

Corridor District: Leading in Prayer
2024-04-27 08:00 - 16:00 | Pleasant Green UMC, 3005 Pleasant Green Rd., Durham, North Carolina, 27705, United States
The Corridor district Lay Servant Ministries team presents Leading in Prayer with Stephan Margeson.

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includes lunch

Course scholarships are available to those in need of financial assistance. Scholarships reduce the cost of a course to $5. Please contact your district director or cle@nccumc.org.
About this course: Anyone who is called upon to lead public prayer may feel anxious and possibly inadequate for such a task. This course offers help for novices as well as veteran leaders of prayer as they create and deliver appropriate prayers for those on whose behalf the prayer is offered.
Course goals:

Consider what public prayer is and is not;
Acquire practical guidelines for avoiding common pitfalls;
Explore prayers as an integral part of worship;
Discuss the kind of language we need, and don’t need, to address God.

Order Your Book!
All participants are expected to read the participant book, Let the Whole Church Say Amen by Laurence Hull Stookey, before taking this course.
For questions about the course, please contact Corridor district LSM co-director Vicki Ambrose, vambrose@nccumc.org.
About the Facilitator

Stephan Margeson is our Pastor of Disciple. He is the primary pastor for Aldersgate Worship Service, and oversees discipleship programming and opportunities for Front Street UMC in all age groups. Stephan also advises the Missions Team of Front Street UMC in volunteer opportunities and financial giving. He enjoys going on runs with his dog, having adventures with his family, and eating really good food with friends!

Thank you for your interest. Registration for this course has closed. If you believe you have time to order and read the book prior to class and would like to request an exception to register late, please contact cle@nccumc.org.

Creation Care Bible Study
2024-04-24 16:45 - 17:45, 2024-04-17 16:45 - 17:45, 2024-04-10 16:45 - 17:45, 2024-04-03 16:45 - 17:45 | Fletcher Chapel United Methodist Church
You are invited to attend this Zoom Bible study hosted by Fletcher’s Chapel UMC based on “Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action,” edited by Rev. Pat Watkins. Sessions start on Wednesday, April 3, at 4:45 pm. This study will be held for four weeks.

For more information and the Zoom link, contact Rev. Suzanne Cobb at scobb@nccumc.org.

Walk for Environmental Justice
2024-04-21 15:00 - 17:00 | University United Methodist Church, 150 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514, United States
In recognition of Earth Day 2024, the University United Methodist Church Environmental Stewardship Team invite our fellow United Methodists to join with other faith communities at the front of the University United Methodist Church on Franklin Street where we will enjoy inspirational music, hear speakers, and receive information about how we can be better caretakers of God’s creation. Then we’ll proceed to walk on the sidewalk in a loop from the Planetarium to West Franklin Street and back. Participants are encouraged to carry signs that convey their issues to the public.

Corridor District dCOM Meeting
2024-04-17 18:45 - 19:45 | North Carolina
Zoom Meeting. Please contact Heidi Seifert, District AADS, for the meeting link.

Corridor Youth Spring Service Day
2024-04-07 15:00 - 19:00 | Camp Chestnut Ridge, 4300 Camp Chestnut Ridge Rd, Efland, North Carolina, 27243, United States
All Corridor District Youth and Youth leaders are invited to join us for Spring Service Day on Sunday, April 7 from 3 – 7 pm. We will spend the evening at Camp Chestnut Ridge in worship, service, and fellowship.

Our afternoon will start with worship, followed by service projects around the camp and we will finish with dinner. Dinner is optional at $15 a person.

Please register your youth and leaders group by Monday, April 1, 2024.
