by academyofpreachers | Feb 14, 2015 | Blog, Classic Articles, My AoP Story
By Tim Norton, AoP’15 “This feels like the American Idol of preaching. I’m not sure I want to do that.”The words escaping my lips were true if not overly blunt. My mentor was encouraging me to participate in the Academy of Preachers’ New England Regional...
by academyofpreachers | Feb 5, 2015 | Blog, Classic Articles, My AoP Story
by Rev. Fr. Martin A. Linebach My introduction to the Academy of Preachers came about from what I might call a “lucky lunch.” I am the Ecumenical/Inter-religious Officer for the Archdiocese of Louisville and I was participating in a Kentucky Council of Churches...
by academyofpreachers | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Classic Articles, My AoP Story
by Kristina N. Heise, AoP’2012 The Academy of Preachers is the place where I discovered just how vast and profound God’s word is. The summer before I began seminary, I was given an amazing opportunity to attend an AoP preaching camp in Atlanta, Georgia. Before that...
by academyofpreachers | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, Classic Articles, Ernest Brooks III, My AoP Story
By Ernest Brooks, AoP’11 Depending on whom you ask and what day it is, I’m either a preacher in love with the academy or an academic who can’t resist the magnetic pull of the pulpit. In either case, I am convinced that I was destined to become a part...
by academyofpreachers | Dec 31, 2014 | Blog, Classic Articles, My AoP Story
Name: Winterbourne LaPucelle Harrison-Jones, AoP’10 Title: Youth Pastor Emeritus, Mount Olivet Baptist Church of Rochester, NY Position: Graduate Fellow, The Lily Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI Christian Tradition or Denomination: American Baptist, National...
by academyofpreachers | Dec 30, 2014 | Classic Articles, My AoP Story
Deena Kuhl Donor Director of Resident Care, Renaissance Senior Communities Event Planner, 2010 National Festival of Young Preachers, Assisted 2011 and 2012 Baptist/Christian Southeast Christian Church The First Festival of Preachers began on a dreary and dismal day....