Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Rowan Baptist Association Youth Campus Tour
12 - 2 p.m.
We look forward to having these young visitors for a tour of our campus as part of their week-long 2018 Youth Camp!
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July 21 - 26, 2018
24th Quadrennial Christian Education Convention
Birmingham, AL
HTS will participate in the 24th Quadrennial Christian Education Convention of the A.M.E. Zion Church in July.
We are excited about the opportunity to teach two classes under the heading "A Day at Hood: The Jazz of Preaching, Prophetic Preaching." (Instructors: Dr. Darin H. Mitchell, Dr. Reginald Boyd, Jr., & Ms. Angela Davis Baxter).
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Alumni and Prospective Student Reception
Sheraton Hotel
Birmingham, AL
12:00 Noon
Carmen Harper, Director of Alumni Engagement, and Reginald Boyd, Director of Recruitment & Admissions, in collaboration with Livingstone College and Clinton College, will host this reception during the A.M.E. Zion Christian Education Quadrennial Convention in Birmingham, AL.
All HTS alumni and prospective students are welcome.
For details and to RSVP, please see the Evite
here
. (Note: correct time is 12 noon.)
Is seminary in your future?
This is an excellent opportunity
for prospective students
to visit with our staff and learn more about Hood Seminary's
academic programs, financial assistance, and student life.
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Congratulations to all HTS alumni who were ordained or commissioned in
The United Methodist Church in recent weeks during Annual Conferences:
Holston (VA) Conference -
Charles Scott Spence, '15.
North Carolina Conference - James Roy Hilburn, '16; Patrick Olin Jones, '18; and Matthew Brandon Seals, '13.
South Carolina Conference - James Stewart McDowell, '16; Brian Edward Preveaux, '15; Lisa Montque Way, '17; Sheri Yvette-Base White, '14; and William M. Wrighten, '15.
Western North Carolina Conference - Lonna Jackson Christ, 13'; David Eugene Cochran, '18; Karen Crouch Doucette, '13; Tamara Ingram, '11; Adam Christopher Love, '15; Tracy Fulbright Love, '13; Christopher Alan Smith, '14; Jesse Ray Smith, '15; Juston Ray Smith, '14; and Daniel Robert Wilson, '13.
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More Scenes from June's UMC Annual Conferences
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Congratulations to
Dr. Leo Whitaker, former HTS faculty member, on his installation as Executive Minister of the Baptist General Convention of Virginia (BGCV) on June 28, 2018.
Dr. Whitaker is pictured here with Mrs. Carmen Harper,
Director of Alumni Engagement and Annual Giving, during the BGCV Annual Session and Congress of Christian Education in Richmond last month.
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SHOW YOUR HOOD PRIDE!
Get your Hood gear
online! Shirts, jackets, hats, etc. available.
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Dr. Vergel Lattimore
,
President
,
will be the Men's Day speaker for the Collins Grove United Methodist Church in Greensboro, NC, on July 15.
On July 18 - 19, he will attend the Connectional Conference of the A.M.E. Zion Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dr. Lattimore will be the Preacher for the Week at The Lakeside Chautauqua Retreat Center, Lake Chautauqua, Ohio, from July 22-26.
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Rev. Dr. Regina Dancy,
Chief Financial Officer and Director of Human Resources,
was elected to the Audit Committee of the Commission on Accrediting at the Centennial Biennial Meeting of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) in June.
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Dr. Sharon Grant
, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity,
preached the
Church Anniversary and Family and Friends Celebration
at Price Cathedral A.M.E. Zion Church in Wilmington, NC, on June 10. HTS seminarian, the Reverend Maria Lacewell, is the Senior Pastor.
She represented HTS at a grant design meeting
,"African Americans and Religious Freedom",
on June 12. Dean Corey Walker of the Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University convened the meeting that was held at the
Newseum
in Washington, DC.
Dr. Grant
was an Invited Presenter at the inaugural
Activist Faith Connecting Head and Heart Convocation
, June 27-28 at the Atlanta Hilton. The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Department of Research and Scholarship sponsored the conference. Dr. Teresa Fry Brown, Editor,
AME Review
, Fourteenth Historiographer and Executive Director of the AME Department of Research and Scholarship convened the event.
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Dr. Dora Mbuwayesango
,
Professor of Old Testament and Languages
,
participated in the "Stand Against Poverty Mass Rally & Moral Revival" at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. on June 23, capping off the Poor People's Campaign of #40DaysOfAction which launched the next phase of the movement for the long-haul. She also participated in the June 30th "Families Belong Together March and Rally", from Harris Teeter Kelsey Scott Park. The Salisbury event was organized by Women for Community Justice (WCJ) of which she is a member.
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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 - Winter 2017-2018
If you would like to be on our mailing list, please contact Carol Palmer at cpalmer@hoodseminary.edu.
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The Hood community joins together in prayer for and offers
sincere condolences to the families and friends of:
Husband of Carol Palmer, Advancement Office staff
Salisbury, NC
June 20, 2018
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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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Hood Theological Seminary
1810 Lutheran Synod Drive
Salisbury, NC 28144
704-636-7611
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