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About This Event
Helping Pastors Thrive, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, is inviting pastors and staff ministers to gather on March 17-19, 2025 at Catholic Conference Center in Hickory, NC.
The retreat will be led by David E. Woolverton, a United Methodist pastor who serves churches facing turnaround ministry situations. He holds a doctorate in conflict leadership and has had intensive clinical training in hospital chaplaincy. Woolverton is affiliate professor of Leadership Studies at Evangelical Theological Seminary in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, and author of the book, "Mission Rift: Leading through Church Conflict"(Fortress Press, 2021).
While programming will begin at 10 am on Monday, you may have dinner at 6 pm on Sunday, March 16th and check-in afterwards, or on Monday. The retreat will end following lunch at noon on Wednesday, March 19th.
Additional information on schedule, directions to the conference center, and opportunities during the retreat will be sent following registration.
About This Event
Helping Pastors Thrive, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, is inviting pastors and staff ministers to gather on March 17-19, 2025 at Catholic Conference Center in Hickory, NC.
The retreat will be led by David E. Woolverton, a United Methodist pastor who serves churches facing turnaround ministry situations. He holds a doctorate in conflict leadership and has had intensive clinical training in hospital chaplaincy. Woolverton is affiliate professor of Leadership Studies at Evangelical Theological Seminary in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, and author of the book, "Mission Rift: Leading through Church Conflict"(Fortress Press, 2021).
While programming will begin at 10 am on Monday, you may have dinner at 6 pm on Sunday, March 16th and check-in afterwards, or on Monday. The retreat will end following lunch at noon on Wednesday, March 19th.
Additional information on schedule, directions to the conference center, and opportunities during the retreat will be sent following registration.