BWIM NC Symposium 2024

BOARD MEMBERS – CLASS OF 2024

Christian McIvor, Minister of Worship, Music, and the Arts, Greystone Baptist Church, Raleigh; Opening Doors

Lin Story-Bunce, Pastor of Families and Faith Development, College Park Baptist Church, Greensboro, PAST CO-CONVENER; Opening Doors

Lynette Sills, Senior Pastor, Tryon United Methodist Church, Tryon; Opening Doors

Anita Thompson, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Wadesboro; CO-CONVENER; Telling Stories

Breana Van Velzen, Executive Director, Congregations in Action, Durham; CO-CONVENER; Building Community

BOARD MEMBERS – CLASS OF 2025

Karen Metcalf-Eickoff, Associate Pastor of Education and Discipleship, Trinity Baptist Church, Raleigh; Opening Doors

Shannon Stewart Hall, Music Educator, Choral Instructor, Orange County School System; Building Community

Mary Elizabeth Hanchey, Baptist writer and author, Clergy and Congregational Coach, Durham; Opening Doors

Will Raybon, Minister of Youth and Children, Benson Baptist Church, Benson; Building Community

Virginia Ross Taylor, Project Director, BWIM NC Compelling Preaching Initiative Grant, Chapel Hill; Building Community

BOARD MEMBERS – CLASS OF 2026

Tarsha Banister, Faith & Health Manager, WFU School of Divinity; Opening Doors

Liz Johnson, Wilmington, Campus Ministry & Motherhood; Telling Stories

Regina Johnson, Director of Church & Community Ministries, First Baptist Church, Weaverville; Telling Stories

Alicia Porterfield, Minister of Missions, Oakmont Baptist Church, Greenville; Telling Stories

Sarah Wilson, Hospice Chaplain, Amedisys, Henderson; Telling Stories

EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS

Ka’thy Gore Chappell, Executive Director, BWIM NC Winston-Salem

Esther Soud Parker, Treasurer, BWIM NC; Minister of Children and Congregational Life, Watts Street Baptist Church, Durham; Opening Doors

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Welcome friends!

We’re delighted to welcome you to Watts Street Baptist Church for this year’s BWIMNC Symposium.

We’re especially thrilled that the date of our gathering coincides with the 60th anniversary of the ordination of Addie Davis, ordained right here at Watts Street. Our story as part of the her-story of Baptist Women in Ministry brings us great joy and we are proud to be a part of the ongoing recognition and celebration of women in ministry in Baptist life.

We hope you’ll feel at home and let us know if there’s anything you need. We look forward to being with you!

Dorisanne Cooper Pastor

C E L E B R A T I N G A D D I E D V I S !

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PREACHERS AND MUSICIANS

Musicians & Worship Planners

2024 BWIM NC “Symposium” Mini-Preaching Festival

featuring Paula Clayton Dempsey, retired Baptist Clergywoman in community, telling the story of Baptist women from Mars Hill

Lynn Holmes, interim senior pastor to the Congregation at Duke University Chapel from Raleigh

Andrea Dellinger Jones, purpose & impact coach, seminary instructor, & Baptist minister from Rome, GA

Christine Parton Burkett, lecturing fellow in speech at Duke Divinity School in Durham

Tambi Swiney, spiritual director and writer from Asheville

Rev. Shannon Stewart Hall

Music Educator & Choral Instructor with Orange County School System

Rev. Dr. Christian McIvor Minister of Worship, Music, and the Arts at Greystone Baptist Church in Raleigh and Adjunct Professor of Trumpet at Campbell University

Do you know our “Symposium” Workshop Leaders?

You pick one! Both will be recorded for viewing on website.

The Art & Craft of Public Proclamation focusing on voice, style & technique with Christine Parton Burkett

Christine Parton Burkett has served as the lecturing fellow in speech at Duke Divinity School in Durham since 1991. In this role, she has worked with seminary students across Christian traditions to encourage their strengths and identify areas for growth, focusing especially—but not exclusively—on excellence in full-bodied delivery.

She has been a featured presenter at more than one hundred retreats, workshops, and conferences for clergy around the United States and in Canada, and she regularly coaches clergy and lay worship leaders using tools that she has created including reader’s theater, choric readings, and biblical story-telling.

Her writing on preaching, scripture reading, and other forms of public proclamation has been featured in publications such as Faith & Leadership and The Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching (1994).

She holds degrees in theater and speech language pathology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Developing Spiritual Practices that Deepen Our Relationship with God focusing on gathering prayers, meditations and practices with Tambi Brown Siney

Rev. Tambi Brown Swiney is a spiritual companion and writer who joyfully calls the mountains of Western North Carolina home.

Tambi has pastoral experience in both congregational and community contexts; she served as associate pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Nashville for a decade before being called to become the chaplain at The Next Door Recovery.

In the fall of 2022, while relocating to WNC, she entered the Haden Institute’s Spiritual Direction Certification Program, which she completed earlier this year.

Tambi has served on the board of directors for Baptist Women in Ministry and has participated in BWIM Mentoring Program, both as a mentee and a mentor. She has also served on BJC’s board of directors

2024 BWIM NC “Symposium”

Thursday, September 12, 2024

9:30am - 2:00pm

Watts Street Baptist Church Durham, North Carolina

CALLED!

Called to Lead ... to Serve ... to Preach!

The Lord then stood beside Samuel and called out as he had done before, “Samuel! Samuel!” “I’m listening,” Samuel answered. “What do you want me to do?”

I Samuel 3:10 (CEV)

Greetings, Check-in, Meet Exhibitors, and Hospitality Time

Invitation into the Sanctuary

“Called to Become” & Welcome with Christian McIvor, Ka’thy Gore Chappell & Meredith Stone

Welcome to Watts Street with Dorisanne Cooper

Call to Worship & Invocation with Deborah Garrard, “Listening”

Music with Shannon Stewart Hall & Christian McIvor

”Will You Come and Follow Me” ”Here I Am, Lord” ”God Who Made Us, Christ Who Calls Us” Interlude (“Listening”)

Introduction of Preacher with Regina Johnson

Called … Paula Clayton Dempsey Interlude, “Listening”

Introduction of Preacher with Sarah Wilson

Called … Lynn Holmes

Interlude, “Listening”

Introduction of Preacher with Katrina Tatum

Called … Andrea Dellinger Jones

Interlude, “Listening”

Awards & Recognitions by Ka’thy Gore Chappell

The Anne Thomas Neil Award for Laity

The Anne Thomas Neil Award for Clergy

The Church Award

VEGETARIANS FIRST, PLEASE:

Fellowship Lunch in the Church Dining Room with Ordination Timeline & “Give Butter” Giving & Exhibitors

Workshops by Speech Therapist, Meagan Parton Burkett, & Spiritual Director, Tambi Swiney (choose one)

Communion with Taylor Long, Rachel West, Taylor Edwards & Casey Cabaniss (Campbell Divinity School)

Benediction with Carrie Jarrell-Tuning

What do you want us to do?

I Samuel 3:10 (CEV)

Refrain from “Called to Become”

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TEXT: John L. Bell and Graham Maule, 1987

MUSIC: Scottish melody; arr. John L. Bell, 1987

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God Who Made Us, Christ Who Calls Us BEACH SPRING

God who made us, Christ who calls us, Breath who guides us in the Way, Hear the humble words we whisper as we dare to bow and pray: “Live Your Light within and through us, dawn in us eternal day. Tell us, as we brave the darkness, when to speak and what to say.

Give us courage, humble courage. Give us faith that will not fail. Give us love with no exceptions. Through us let Your peace prevail.” God who made us, Christ who calls us, Breath who guides from deep within, May our lives of mumbled praying end with Heaven’s clear “Amen.”

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The Church Award

This award is given to congregations who are exemplary in supporting and encouraging the cause of women in ministry.

Past Recipients of The Church Award:

1996 Antioch Baptist Church (Enfield)

1997 College Park Baptist Church (Greensboro)

1998 St. John’s Baptist Church (Charlotte)

1999 Wake Forest Baptist Church (Wake Forest)

2001 Millbrook Baptist Church (Raleigh)

2002 First Baptist Church, Wilson

2003 Cullowhee Baptist Church (Cullowhee)

2004 Weldon Baptist Church (Weldon)

2005 Watts Street Baptist Church (Durham)

2006 Park Road Baptist Church (Charlotte)

2007 Memorial Baptist Church (Buies Creek)

2008 Ridge Road Baptist Church (Raleigh)

2009 Sardis Baptist Church (Charlotte)

2010 Knollwood Baptist Church (Winston-Salem)

2011 Providence Baptist Church (Hendersonville)

2012 Flat Rock Baptist Church (Mt. Airy)

2013 Westwood Baptist Church (Cary)

2014 First Baptist Church (Ahoskie)

2015 First Baptist Church (Raleigh)

2016 Northwest Baptist Church (Winston-Salem)

2017 Greenwood Forest Baptist Church (Cary)

2018 First Baptist Church on Fifth (Winston-Salem)

2019 Greystone Baptist Church (Raleigh)

2020 Lakeside Baptist Church (Rocky Mount)

2021 Trinity Baptist Church (Raleigh)

2022 First Baptist Church (Laurinburg)

2023 First Baptist Church (Smithfield)

Please contact Ka’thy Gore Chappell at kchappell@bwimnc.org to nominate a church or individual

2023 BWIM NC Award Winners pictured left to right, clockwise

Les Davis, Laity Award

Kristen Tucker & FBC, Smithfield, Church Award

Allison Farrah & family, Clergy Award

The Anne Thomas Neil Award

This award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of women in ministry.

Past Recipients of The Anne Thomas Neil Award:

1988 Anne Thomas Neil

1989 Donna Forrester

1990 Elizabeth Barnes

1991 Sue Fitzgerald

1992 Dot King

1993 Caralie Brown

1994 Sara Ann Hobbs

1995 Mary Caldwell

1996 Geneva Metzger

1997 Velma Ferrell

1998 Paula Clayton Dempsey

1999 Tyanna Day

2001 Tom and Eunice Bland

2002 Furman Hewitt

2003 Judith Powell

2004 Anne Compere

2005 Paula Settle

2006 Linda McKinnish Bridges

2007 Beatrice Kay Simpson

2008 Ruby Fulbright

2009 Mary Margaret Brooks

2010 Jessie Bell Lewis and Claudeline Lewis

2011 Wanda Kidd

2012 Carolyn McClendon

2013 Gail Coulter

2014 Alicia Davis Porterfield

2015 Ka’thy Gore Chappell

2016 Michael Usey

2017 Janice Haywood

2018 Faithe Beam

2019 Charlotte Cook Smith

2020 Louise Dawson (laity), Esther Soud Parker (clergy)

2021 Joy Gambill (laity), Karen Metcalf-Eickoff (clergy)

2022 Mary Foskett (laity), Kheresa Harmon (clergy)

2023 Les Davis (laity), Allison Farrah (clergy)

Balance Sheet

Profit & Loss

SPECIAL THANKS & GIVING BUTTER

Thank You for Supporting & Sustaining BWIM NC through Individual, Congregational & Missional Giving!!! Visit bwimnc.org/support to donate.

As a Supporter and Sustainer of BWIM NC, you make it possible for BWIM NC to annually award $10,000 in theological scholarships to women who attend one of the four CBFNC Partner Divinity Schools. Each divinity school receives $2,500 for the academic year.

As a Supporter and Sustainer of BWIM NC, you generously fund communications, podcasts, Enews, virtual “Lunch & Learns,” small groups for improving teaching and preaching skills, opportunities for ministerial self-care, and annual gatherings for connecting and networking (like the annual BWIM NC “Symposium”).

Individuals can give to BWIM NC with a click at www.bwimnc.org/support. Follow instructions to give with a credit card OR PayPal OR to give monthly. Complete info and click submit to support and sustain BWIM NC.

Congregations can give to BWIM NC with a check payable to BWIM NC and mailed to: BWIM NC, ATT: Esther Soud Parker, 7913 Ocoee Court, Raleigh, NC 27612

Scan this QR CODE to GIVE TODAY to BWIM NC during a “special time of giving” at the 2024 BWIM “Symposium” FELLOWSHIP LUNCH.

The special giving event, named “Giving Butter,” is the 2024 BWIM NC “Symposium” Campaign with a GOAL of $6,000 to honor the 60th Anniversary of Addie Davis, the first woman ordained by the SBC.

The—Quilt.

The “Cloud of Witnesses” Quilt was created in 2008, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of BWIM NC and as a reminder of interdependence with one another.

Before the quilt was created, an invitation to fund the Kay Simpson Endowment was extended. The recipient of our annual Church Award has the honor of keeping and displaying the quilt for a full year.

The—Endowment.

The Kay Simpson Memorial Endowment seeks to perpetuate the tradition of BWIM NC to provide scholarships to selected women divinity school students in our state.

To support the expansion of this endowment, please give generously to:

Provision Financial Resources of NC Baptists, Inc. 201 Convention Drive Cary, NC 27511-4257

INTERDEPENDENCE WITH 2024 “Symposium”

“Telling Stories, Opening Doors & Building Community”

THANK YOU Ardmore Baptist Church, Winston-Salem for generosity of resources in printing and producing the 2024 “Symposium” Program Book …

THANK YOU bewellservewell for a cup of tea supporting ministerial self-care …

THANK YOU Yates Baptist Church, Durham for a tantalizing breakfast to start the day …

THANK YOU Church Benefits Board for a delicious lunch for fellowship and nourishment…

THANK YOU Watts Street Baptist Church, Durham for hosting our event!

for the 2025 BWIM NC “Symposium” Hayes Barton Baptist Church, Raleigh Thursday, September 11, 2025 9:30am - 2pm