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Annual Conference 2018

Remembering Who We Are

2018 FLORIDA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 

June 7–9, 2018

 

Florida Southern College
111 Lake Hollingsworth Dr. 
Lakeland, FL 33801

 

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2018 Florida Annual Conference General Schedule

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

9:30 am

Registration opens (Clergy & Lay), First Lakeland

1:30 pm

Youth Delegate Orientation, Reynolds Hall
Session 1: Pre-Conference Workshops, First UMC Lakeland

3:15 pm

Session 2: Pre-Conference Workshops, First UMC Lakeland

7:00 pm

Love Feast and Florida Conference Stories, First UMC Lakeland

8:00 pm

Reception, First UMC Lakeland

 

Thursday, June 7, 2018

7:30 am

Clergywomen Breakfast, First UMC Lakeland

7:30 am  

Expo opens, Music Building 208 & 210
Morning Communion, B201
Prayer Garden opens, B203
Spiritual Direction, B204

8:00 am

Laity Registration opens, Honeyman Pavilion
Clergy Registration opens, First UMC Lakeland

10:00 am

Clergy Session meets, First UMC Lakeland
Laity Orientation meets, Branscomb Auditorium

12:00 pm

Clergy Registration re-opens, Honeyman Pavilion
Lunch Break

1:30 pm

Opening Plenary Session with Worship, Branscomb Auditorium

5:00 pm

Reception and Open House, Archives and History Building
Dinner Break

7:30 pm

Communion Service, Branscomb Auditorium
Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson, North Georgia Conference, preaching
Bishop's Offering

 

Friday, June 8, 2018

6:30 am 5K Run/Walk, Lake Hollingsworth

7:30 am

Expo opens, Music Building 208 & 210
Morning Communion, B201
Prayer Garden opens, B203
Spiritual Direction, B204

8:00 am

Registration opens, Honeyman Pavilion

8:30 am

Plenary Session, Branscomb Auditorium
Special Speaker: Dr. Paul Chilcote, Professor of Theology, Asbury Theological Seminary, Orlando

10:30 am

Memorial Service

11:30 am

Lunch Break
Memorial Luncheon, Eleanor Searle Drawing Room
Retiree Luncheon, Lucius Pond Ordway Building

1:30 pm

Anniversary Celebrations
Plenary Session, Branscomb Auditorium
Retirement Service

3:00 pm Way Forward Discussion

5:00 pm

Dinner Break

7:00 pm

Evening Plenary Session
Bishop Gregory V. Palmer, West Ohio Conference – Special Speaker

 

Saturday, June 9, 2018

7:30 am

Expo opens, Music Building 208 & 210

8:30 am

Plenary Session, Branscomb Auditorium

10:30 am

Service of Licensing, Commissioning and Ordination and Fixing of Appointments

12:30 pm Conference concludes