While in Indianapolis last week for the General Board (GB) meetings, I had opportunity to greet the leaders of the Ibero-America area – men I highly respect and with whom I had the privilege of serving while at Global partners. These men lead the work of our church in Panama, Chile, Puerto Rico and Costa […]
Kingswood University graduation exercises were held over the weekend. Dr. Marsha Boyd-Mitchell was the Baccalaureate speaker and General Superintendent Dr. Wayne Schmidt was the Commencement speaker. Nathan Maskery was the Salutatorian and Oliver Locke was the Valedictorian. All four speakers did a great job. There was contagious energy in the proceedings as the quality grads […]
I was in New York City from Monday to Wednesday last week for the DS Roundtable meeting. This was my last such meeting to attend due to my pending retirement this July. I have highly valued the camaraderie of the DS group across the 22 years in total that I have served in both the […]
The true spirit of the resurrection is evident in the crowd of fearless Egyptian Coptic Christians pictured above who came to celebrate the risen Christ on Easter Sunday just one week after two of their churches were bombed resulting in the death of circa 50 people. “ISIS has declared war on Christianity,” Father John Boutros says. […]
Our District Board of Ministerial Development (DBMD) meets in three regions of the district every spring to interview ordination candidates and others who are earlier in the ordination process. We meet in the South Region – usually in the Halifax area; the Central Region – at Kingswood University; and the North Region – usually in […]
Exciting Camp Ministry News! In preparation for the coming leadership transition at District Conference, the Atlantic District is pleased to announce our new Executive Director of Camp Ministry – Andrea Gunter! Her half-time leadership role is effective May 1st as responsibilities are transitioned from our Assistant District Superintendent. She is Graduating in June with an Executive Master of […]
Last week saw our DBMD South group meeting at Cornerstone Wesleyan in Hammonds Plains for interviews as well as the DBMD Exec Com holding two ordination interviews in Truro. It is always a highlight of the year to spend time with these “prophets in process.” Our DBMD Central and North groups will be meeting over […]
The Beulah Session of the Camp Board met at the District Office last week. One of the highlights of the meeting was time spent with the engineering and design company that is working with us on a campus development plan as we look to maximizing the stewardship of this amazing facility. Prof Mike MacNeil from KU […]
Special Notice: The funeral of Rev. Bill Moore, father of our Assistant DS Peter Moore, will take place today at 2 PM at Fredericton Journey Wesleyan. As a result, our District Office will be closed all day today – Monday. We will reopen for our regular hours tomorrow. Bangor The River held their first indoor […]
Our District Ministerial was held last week at the Delta Beausejour Hotel in Moncton. Peter planned, organized and conducted this high quality event and did amazing work – his report follows: “Here are just a few of the favourite parts of ministerial expressed in the 70+ voluntary evaluations received from the 120+ ministers and spouses […]
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