Jonathan Scott, our Preacher of the Month, is a student at Oakland City University and pastor of the Francisco Church of the Nazarene in Francisco, Indiana. Jonathan's
mentor is Darin Nossett. Jonathan says, "I preach the love of Jesus Christ shed on the cross and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our lives."
This is Jonathan's second year serving on the Academy of Preachers Leadership Team.
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Summer Preaching Camps
Featured Presenter
Kate Bringardner
Vocal Dynamics for Professionals is a unique approach to Voice and
Speech for non-performers. With a conviction that everyone has a right
to speak and to speak well, Kate uses tried and true techniques that
actors and performers have used for decades to empower her clients to
find their full and free voice.
Visit Kate online at www.katebringardner.com.
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2010 Summer Preaching Camps
The 2010 Summer
Preaching Camps are set to kick off in June in Atlanta,
Georgia and Richmond, Indiana.
To find out more, visit the Academy
of Preachers online at www.academyofpreachers.net
and click on Preaching Camps.
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Blogs & Articles of Interest
The Academy of Preachers is pleased to share the following related Blogs (authored by our very own Young Preachers) and articles with our newsletter readers:
Rumps Rambles
by Zac Bailes
Larry T. Crudup Ministries
by Larry T. Crudup
Faith Connects Us recently wrote an article about the Academy: "Academy of Preachers Lifts Up the Voices of Young People with a Call." Click here to read the full piece.
June "iPreach" Newsletter
We look forward to sharing complete coverage of our summer preaching camps with all of you, following completion of our three preaching camps in Indiana, Tennessee and Georgia. Want
to see your blog or article about the Festival of Young Preachers in
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Greetings!
Welcome to the April 2010
edition of the iPreach Newsletter. We're pleased to bring you the latest news
and happenings from the Academy
of Preachers. Don't forget to visit our website, www.AcademyofPreachers.net often for the latest news and articles.
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Support the Academy
The Academy of Preachers
is launching a three-month effort to raise $50,000 to support three programs:
the Young Preachers Leadership Team, the Preaching Camps, and the Festival of
Young Preachers.
Yes, the Academy has received a generous grant from the Lilly Endowment, but
their support is earmarked for basic administrative costs: personnel, travel,
materials, and such. What the Endowment gift does not cover are our programs
for young preachers.
Our leadership team consists of 17 young people from 16 different schools in 8
states: Kentucky, Indiana,
Tennessee, Georgia,
North Carolina, Ohio,
Florida, and Massachusetts. Read about them on our web site Eventually our leadership team will be drawn from every geographic region of
the country. They attend a preaching camp and a retreat and help plan and lead
the festival in January. For their services they receive a stipend of $1,000
plus their expenses.
Our preaching camps cost $500 per camper but we ask them to pay only $200 with
the other $300 provided in scholarships.
The Festival of Young Preachers is an expensive event: receptions, meals,
honorariums, materials, programs, video recordings and publicity. This past
year we had 92 young people come and preach at the Festival in Louisville: 5 with either in high school and
5 were out of seminary, and the remaining group was evenly split between
college and seminary. They came from 41 schools in 21 states.
We need your help to support these young people.
You can make a tax-deductable contribution directly to the Academy (see the
address elsewhere in this newsletter) or you can make a tax-deductable
contribution to your denomination, school, church or organization to support
one or more of these young preachers.
Paul the apostle wrote: "How shall they (the people of the world) hear
(the gospel of Jesus Christ) without a preacher?" Good question.
Your gift will help support a young preacher who is already engaged in the
proclamation of the good news.
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2011 Festival Site Announced
 The Academy of Preachers is pleased to announce that the Cathedral of the Assumption and Seelbach Hilton Hotel in Downtown Louisville, Ky., will be the location for the 2011 Festival of Young Preachers. The Festival will be held January 6-8, 2011 and registration is now open to interested young preachers via the Academy website.
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Welcome to Our New Founding Partners
The Academy
of Preachers wishes to
welcome the following Founding Partners:
We continue to be thankful for the partnership of these institutions and pray that our partnership in gospel
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A Word from Dr. Moody
Last
week I visited the campuses of four schools in the business of preparing young preachers.
Anderson University
in Anderson, Indiana
is a school of the Church
of God. They have a solid
undergraduate department as well as a graduate school of theology. We have yet
to entice any of their students or faculty to engage with the Academy of Preachers,
but it won't be too long!
Earlham College
is the Quaker school in Richmond, Indiana, about an hours drive east of Anderson. Earlham has a graduate school of
religion; they also host on their campus Bethany Theological Seminary, a school
of the Church of the Brethren. One Earlham student (Anne Marie Roderick, from New York City) and one Bethany
student (Daniel Rudy, from Maryland)
preached at our inaugural Festival of Young Preachers.
Daniel is also a new member of our Young Preachers Leadership Team. He and I
shared a meal together and he said, "The festival was such a wonderful
experience. I went wondering if I would be comfortable being who I am. But
right off the bat I felt at home, I was able to talk to a Brother without any
pressure to change. It was a great feeling." Bethany Seminary and Earlham
School of Religion are hosting a preaching camp this summer; they have terrific
facilities. (See my Facebook page for some videos.)
I left Indiana and visited the campus of
United Theological Seminary in Dayton,
Ohio. This was my first visit to
this United Methodist school. Upon entering the academic building on their
beautiful 88 acre campus at the edge of town I felt the warmth and hospitality
of the entire learning community. My meeting with faculty and staff was their
first introduction to the Academy and they promised to become a National
Partner and talked of offering a preaching course built around the festival.
I also bought $180 worth of books (and that's with the 20% ministerial
discount). Included are "Quitting Church:
Why the Faithful are Fleeing and What to Do about it" (a situation
pertinent to all young preachers) and "The Ten Commandments" (our
preaching theme for the 2011 Festival of Young Preachers).
I
always return home inspired and motivated and convinced anew of the importance
of what we are doing. There is a hunger in the church of Jesus Christ
for our ministry of "inspiring young people in their call to gospel
preaching."
- Dwight Moody, Executive Director
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"The
Academy of Preachers an ecumenical initiative launched through a
generous grant from the LIlly Endowment and energized by the conviction
that gospel preaching is a vocation of public and social significance,
a calling worthy of the very best and brightest of our young people."
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