by academyofpreachers | Oct 5, 2018 | Blog, My AoP Story, News, News Article, Tyler Best
Anxious. Elated. Hesitant. Eager. Preaching can be a wild mix of conflicting emotions as one prepares and delivers a sermon. My sophomore-in-college-self was rarely the timid, reserved person I remember being at my first National Festival of Young Preachers in 2012....
by academyofpreachers | Sep 27, 2018 | Academy of Preachers, News, News Article
Do you ever think that preaching needs to feel more like a conversation? Dr. Mike Jackson thinks so too. Register here for the 2019 National Festival of Young Preachers! Dr. Jackson was a Master Class leader at the 2018 National Festival of Young Preachers, where he...
by academyofpreachers | Sep 19, 2018 | Blog, Ernest Brooks III, My AoP Story, News, News Article
Over 1,000 Young Preachers have attended the National Festival of Young Preachers since the first Festival in 2010. Over 1,000 students, ministers, and others inspired to preach could tell you their story of how they came to their first Festival. For some, it was...
by academyofpreachers | Sep 12, 2018 | Academy of Preachers, National festivals, National Partners, News, News Article, Nick Bettis, Preaching in your voice
Listen on Soundcloud – Click here This episode of the AoP Podcast features Romal Tune (author, speaker, preacher, VP of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation at TMS Global, and Master Class leader at the upcoming 2019 National Festival of Young Preachers) for a...
by academyofpreachers | Sep 5, 2018 | Academy of Preachers, Blog, National festivals, News, News Article
At the 2018 National Festival of Young Preachers, Rev. Melanie Jones, one of the many experts in their fields who preach and teach at the National Festival, presented a Master Class titled Womanist Preaching in a Millenial Age. She discussed what Womanist Theology is,...
by academyofpreachers | Aug 29, 2018 | Blog, My AoP Story, National festivals, News, News Article, Nick Bettis, Young Preachers
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a Pentecostal, an Eastern-Orthodox seminary student, and a Catholic Friar walk into a bar… At the 2015 National Festival of Young Preachers, I met two people who would end up defining my Festival experience. The first was...
by academyofpreachers | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog, National festivals, News, News Article, Uncategorized
Our mentors shape our ideas about what mentoring should look like. Darlene Hutto, AoP Board member and Director of Strategic Partnerships for Leadership Networks for the Forum for Theological Exploration, led a Master Class on Mentoring from the Mentee’s...
by academyofpreachers | Aug 15, 2018 | National festivals, News, News Article, Uncategorized
Rev. Tara Beth Leach, Senior Pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene in Pasadena, California, will be a plenary preacher at the 2019 National Festival of Young Preachers in Atlanta, GA. Rev. Leach lives with her husband Jeff and their two young boys, Caleb and...
by academyofpreachers | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog, News, News Article, Wyndee Holbrook
Last year I moved to South Texas from Kentucky. It’s been an adventure, particularly living within 2.5 hours of the border with Mexico. As a bit of a political nerd, I always paid attention to issues like immigration, but they’ve taken on a whole new meaning now that...
by academyofpreachers | Aug 1, 2018 | Blog, News, News Article
The 2018 National Festival of Young Preachers featured many dynamic masterclasses led by experts and practitioners in a variety of fields related to preaching and Christian ministry. Dr. Everett McCorvey—AoP National Festival Music Director, Director of the American...
