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Bishop Leeland’s Response to Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation
Dear Smoky Mountain District Clergy and Church Members, I hope that you will set aside time to prayerfully reflect upon the following documents concerning the Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace agreement released to our denomination on January 3rd.  ...

I’m New to the District: Laura Jones
     Wisdom, love, and innovation! Those three words come to mind when I reflect on my conversation with Laura Jones, Pastor at Fines Creek UMC in Clyde, NC. Here are Pastor Laura’s answers to a few questions that I asked: Who are the most ...

Shepherd’s Table: The Old Made New Again
Shepherd’s Table: The Old Made New Again One of the most exciting new forms of ministry / church is “Dinner Church.” The name pretty much says it all. Congregants gather around the table to be fed in body, mind, and spirit. Many of our churches have ...

Plains UMC Canton C.A.R.E.s Afterschool Program

Congregations For Children
Congregations For Children (C4C) "I don't have a mother!" exclaimed one of the girls in Linda Dill’s third grade reading group. "She moved to Raleigh and we don't think she's alive," she continued.   A second girl followed up, “I don’t have a mom, ...

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WNCC Easter Service
Bishop Leeland and the Western North Carolina Cabinet are preparing an Easter worship video for our conference. Many of you are finding wonderful ways to connect with your church communities online and we celebrate that! However, if North Carolina’s ...

2020 SEJ Conference Postponed
Greetings, Delegates and Alternates to the SEJ Conference:   Grace and peace to each of you in this most unusual of Holy Weeks for all of us. As some of you may have heard by this time, the decision has been made to postpone all 2020 U.S. ...

Making Funerals Meaningful in the Age of COVID-19
The Hospice Foundation of America shares a webinar on how to make funerals meaningful during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Linda Kelly
District Superintendent
Linda Kelly

District Office Administrator
Beth Christopoulos

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Fax: 828.454.6810

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PO Box 1269
Lake Junaluska, North Carolina 28745-1269

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Lake Junaluska, North Carolina 28745

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