Scholarship for five Tennessee Conference young clergypersons who register for the SEJ Young Clergy Forum/Lake Junaluska Peace Conference -- the events are sponsored by the General Board of Church and Society

The General Board of Church and Society is partnering with a number of SEJ United Methodist agencies and leaders to host a GBCS-SEJ Young Clergy Forum in conjunction with this year’s Lake Junaluska Peace Conference. If you are a young clergy or know of young clergy please encourage them to consider attending this event.

GBCS will provide scholarships for up to five young clergy from each SEJ conference to attend the Young Clergy GBCS Gathering on January 30-21 at Lake Junaluska and then stay for the SEJ Peace Conference January 31-Feb 2. (For our purposes we are defining young clergy as “United Methodist elders or deacons age 40 and younger”)

Upon checkout General Board of Church and Society will pay $150 toward the Lake Junaluska expenses for each Young Clergy participant in the full program January 30-Feb 2. Registration for the Young Clergy Forum will be limited to 50 Young Clergy from across the SEJ.

This will provide clergy an excellent opportunity to meet GBCS staff and learn about our ministry of advocacy, network with other young clergy across the jurisdiction, talk about the issue of peacebuilding and the call of the church to respond with faithfulness in a world addicted to violence.

Dynamic Speakers for the Peace Conference include: Peter Storey, Jim Winkler, Jan Love, Richard Hays, Celeste Zapalla.

Young clergy can register at http://www.umc-gbcs.org/sejyoungclergy08

Registrants will then need to register for a room at Lake Junaluska Lodging Reservations at 1-800-222-4930.

The registration fee is only $50 per young clergy. One continuing education credit will be awarded for full participants.

Questions? Contact Rev. Clayton Childers, cchilders@umc-gbcs.org or 202-488-5642.