One important way to be like Jesus is to show compassion. The Cultivating Compassion event is designed to support and strengthen Christians to love themselves and others.
Experience healing, restoration and wholeness in and through Christ at the four-day Academy for Spiritual Formation.
The Metagen Institute offers a two-year certification program for the formation of spiritual directors. Their upcoming Cohort starts in March 2023 with completion in February 2025.
"The Way of Forgiveness" is a resource recommended by the Spiritual Formation Team for use by small groups during Lent.
The Adult Discipleship Team supports Silent Retreats at Camp Sumatanga and Sacred Heart. Six retreats are scheduled for 2023.
United Methodists in North Alabama are invited to join in 40 days of prayer to invite the Holy Spirit to lead us as we move forward together.
The Adult Discipleship Team is pleased to announce dates for two Silent Retreats this Fall.
The Conference Prayer Team's plans include an active prayer chapel, prayer stations and labyrinth.
Hamilton UMC's youth director Nicholas George shares how the labyrinth made a meaningful addition to Lenten practices for youth and children.
The Academy for Spiritual Formation is an experience for those who hunger for deep spirituality.
The Adult Discipleship Team has purchased a labyrinth for use by churches and ministry groups in the North Alabama Conference.
The Adult Discipleship Team invites you to participate in a weekly Ignatian Examen.
The Conference's Adult Discipleship Team offers information on Spiritual Formation practices.
Reading through the Bible together in 2022 is a way in which we open ourselves to experience God's presence and kainos new.
World events like a global pandemic may have tried to bring a halt to Alabama Emmaus Walks, but God’s Holy Spirit is breathing new life into the Emmaus Rooster!
Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett has written an Advent resource to assist both individuals and small groups in spiritual preparation through the Advent season.
Lenten Devotion contributed by Rev. Roger Short.
Lenten Devotion contributed by Adult Discipleship Team Chair Stephanie Sparks.
Lenten Devotion contributed by Joey Butler.
Lenten Devotion contributed by Rev. Donna Godwin.
Lenten Devotion contributed by Lyn Cosby.
Lenten Devotion contributed by Rev. Patsy Carlberg.
Lenten Devotion contributed by Stephen Ingram.
Due to the continued restrictions associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Spring Silent Retreat has been postponed until September.
The Cheaha District invites you to participate in an upcoming Spiritual Formation event led by entrepreneur Susan Packard, an author, speaker, writer and mentor who is a co-founder of HGTV.
Bishop Wallace-Padgett encourages United Methodists in North Alabama to join the Read Together initiative and read through the Bible in a year using a schedule provided by the Adult Discipleship Team.
Participants will be able to learn about the history of Methodism, how to protect yourself from scams, caregiver support, and cooking for 1 or 2 for the holidays. There will even be a time to laugh as Rev. Rick Owen offers a timely and comical look at the year 2020.
Participants who had already registered for 2020 can choose to receive a refund or apply their payment to one of next year's retreats.
The world-wide movement of protesting and opposing racism today is evidence that there is much work yet to be done in order to forge justice and make peace on Planet Earth.
This year, on the National Day of Prayer, I’d like to share some ideas and resources to make everyday prayer something in which we all take part. Some of these ideas have been addressed in the Pray Together podcast, so check it out for an expanded view.
