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Web Servant: H. E. Thompson
Rev. Vertie Powers
Association Minister, ENCA
Welcome to the Eastern North Carolina Association Web site, I bring you greetings of God’s grace and peace. The ministry that God is doing in this association is exciting and challenging. It is a ministry where the walls that divide and have divided us are starting to come down. We are beginning new conversations that have everything to do with expanding the peaceable kingdom of God and inviting all in to receive the radical love that God through Jesus is offering to us.
ENC Women’s Fellowship is being revived with the new leadership intent on doing ministry and mission in creative and engaging ways that will attract women of all ages. Opportunities for shared prayer and worship are being explored for each of the six program districts in order for us to know and love our sisters and brothers in a more holistic way.
We are meeting with and giving information to our congregations and talking about why a “Live The Vision” Capital Campaign is needed for the Southern Conference at this time.
The association leadership has heard from you and will make available training and educational opportunities in the following areas:
These are a few of the topics you have requested training and information on. We are working hard on ways to make all of this happen.
The challenging part is that a majority of our churches in the association are seeking ways to be in relationship with one another and our geography makes building relationships difficult. However, we are exploring different avenues of how we can bring UCC’ers together despite our geographical difficulties for worship, fellowship, and mission.
We know that there are difficult days ahead as we try to honor those requests that you have made for we know that not only did you make them but you expect and are demanding a response.This is the exciting and challenging mission that we here in the association have. For as we continue to live into our New Beginnings Vision as committed spiritual followers of Christ through worship, ministry, fellowship, giving, and covenantal cooperative relationship the mutual benefit will be greater than if we were operating separately.