Turn your attention from Atlanta to Austin and Evansville: from the National Festival of Young Preachers in January to the two Regional Festivals in September and November.

Yes, it is the sermons at the National Festival that we publish and post on YouTube (where they have been watched an amazing 118,000 times)! But it is at the Regional Festivals that we expand our network of institutions, donors, partners, and Young Preachers.

The first this fall will be hosted in Austin, Texas, by Seminary of the Southwest and Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Thirty six young preachers (half of them already registered, by the way) will gather, along with four session conveners, four sermon evaluators, and a couple dozen coaches/mentors (plus family, friends, and folks off the street): perhaps as many as 200 total over a 26 hour period.

And in Evansville, much the same but on homecoming weekend at the University of Evansville, November 3-4. Registration for the UE Regional Festival (and that stands for University of Evansville) will go up on our AoP website when school opens in a few weeks. There will be 24 preaching slots available in Evansville.