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PlainSpokenWhat's Going On In The Kentucky UMC Annual Conference?Like other annual conferences the Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is in the process of dealing with local churches that want to disaffiliate from the denomination. In this video Pastor Jeffrey looks at how the annual conference in this state is approaching and dealing with the process and the reaction of their Bishop, Leonard Fairley.Show Notes:2023 Hopeful Future Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV0vvG_dcZkMisinformation, Humility, & Charity Article:https://firebrandmag.com/articles/misinformation-humility-and-charity-how-to-conference-in-babel...
2023-02-1737 min
Grace for the FutureEpisode 7: Great Thanksgiving, Paragraph 4Rev. Jaye White, of the North Carolina Annual Conference, and Rev. Jim Savage, of the Kentucky Annual Conference, join Bishop Leonard Fairley in our seventh installment of the Grace for the Future podcast and video blog.White is an ordained deacon who serves as Conference Director of Outreach Ministries. Savage, an elder in the Kentucky Conference, serves as Director of Missions and Outreach Ministries and Assistant Conference Superintendent in the Central Appalachian Missionary Conference (formerly the Red Bird Missionary Conference). In this episode Bishop Fairley and his guests explore the second half of the Great Thanksgiving section of our Communion Liturgy. They lo...
2022-04-0534 minGrace for the FutureEpisode 6: The Great Thanksgiving, Paragraph 3Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. In this month’s episode of the Grace for the Future podcast, Bishop Leonard Fairley and his guests are Rev. Jason Villegas and Eliza Love. Rev. Villegas is an ordained Elder in the North Carolina Annual Conference, serving Murfreesboro UMC and also on the Conference task force on reimagining youth ministry and the Hispanic Latino Committee. Eliza Love is in the candidacy process in the Kentucky Annual Conference and is in her second year at Duke Divinity school working on...
2022-03-0133 minGrace for the FutureEpisode 5: Great Thanksgiving, Paragraph 2You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life. When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast.In episode 5 of the Grace for the Future podcast, Bishop Leonard Fairley and his guests, Rev. Dr. Jean Hawxhurst, an Ecumenical Staff Officer for the United Methodist Council of Bishops and member of the Kentucky Conference, along with Rev. Dr. Gray Southern, the Assistant to the Bishop and Conference Secretary for the North Carolina Annual Conference, discuss the Great Thanksgiving section of the communion liturgy.Bishop Fairley and his guests explore that portion of...
2022-02-0130 minGrace for the FutureEpisode 4: Great Thanksgiving, Paragraph 1It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you…In this month’s episode of the Grace for the Future podcast, Bishop Leonard Fairley and his guests, Pastor Won Namkoong, an elder from the North Carolina Annual Conference, and Rev. Robert Amundsen, an elder in the Central Appalachian Missionary Conference (formerly the Red Bird Missionary Conference), discuss The Great Thanksgiving section of the Communion liturgy.What does it mean when the pastor takes the bread, the body of Christ, and offers it to the congregants? What does it mean to receive the body of C...
2022-01-0423 minGrace for the FutureEpisode 3: Peace & OfferingAs forgiven and reconciled people, Let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God.In this month’s episode of the Grace for the Future podcast, Bishop Leonard Fairley and his guests, Pam Moran, former Chairperson of the Kentucky Conference CFA Team, and Melba McCallum, Executive Director of Partners in Ministry and a deaconess in the North Carolina Conference, discuss what it means to be a forgiven and reconciled people. How does it look when we know that by the sacrifice of our Lord, Jesus Christ, we are forgiven? How do we then offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God an...
2021-12-0727 minGrace for the FutureEpisode 2: Confession & PardonLet us offer one another signs of reconciliation and love. In this month’s episode of the Grace for the Future podcast, Bishop Leonard Fairley and his guests, Cindy Stamper, Conference Lay Leader for the Red Bird Missionary Conference, and Susan Graebe, the RIOM Coordinator for the North Carolina Conference, delve into the confession and pardon section of the communion liturgy. Bishop Fairley and his guests ask: What does it mean to be an obedient church? How does it look when we love the Lord with our whole heart, and what does it look like to love your neighbor? Join us...
2021-11-0229 minGrace for the FutureEpisode 1: Invitation to CommunionChrist our Lord invites to his table all who love him, who earnestly repent of their sin and seek to live in peace with one another. Those are the words of the invitation to communion in the United Methodist Church, an invitation to be as one with one another and with Christ.In the inaugural episode of the Grace for the Future podcast, Bishop Leonard Fairley and his guests, Rev. Dr. John Hatton, a District Superintendent in the Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church, and Rev. Lisa Yebuah, the North Carolina Conference Spiritual Director and Advisor for Inclusion and...
2021-10-0525 minGrace for the FutureGrace for the Future (Trailer)Welcome to Grace for the Future, a podcast with Bishop Leonard Fairley where we use the means of grace to help us love, learn, and lean into conversations in this liminal season of uncertainty and anxiety.
2021-09-2700 min
Christ Church United MethodistWatching for the Light (Audio)Bishop Leonard Fairley discusses how the light can bring us all together.
2019-12-0100 min
Asbury University Chapel 2019-2020Embrace Conference: “Mutuality: Christians & Racial Reconciliation”Bishop Leonard Fairley speaks about passionate discipleship, practicing reconciliation, and unity.
2019-11-2033 min
Get Your Spirit in Shape - United Methodist PodcastMeet Bishop Leonard FairleyGrowing up in poverty, Bishop Leonard Fairley knew what it was like to go without and to not always feel like there was a place for him. In this conversation he shares how it was in the church he found a place where there was always enough, always room, and he was always welcome.
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2018-06-2017 min
Asbury Seminary Kentucky ChapelGod's Perfect Timing - with Bishop Leonard Fairley"God's Perfect Timing" with Bishop Leonard Fairley, presented by Asbury Seminary Kentucky Chapel, recorded on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at Asbury Theological Seminary's Kentucky campus
2016-12-0620 min