Annual Session Schedule
ROWAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
154th Annual Session Overview
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22
9am: OFFICIAL OPENING GREETINGS & WORSHIP (FACEBOOK LIVE)
Rev. James Wilkes, Elon First Baptist Morning Homiletician
10am - 11am: ROWAN LEARNING INSTITUTE (RLI) - SESSION 1
Class Schedule (Zoom)
1. Finding the Cross in COVID-19: The Response for Church Leaders - Rev. Amos Green, Associate Minister, New Zion Baptist GSO
2. Aftershock: Dealing With Loss and Grief During and After Pandemic - Bishop James R. Woodson, St. James Home Of Fresh Start, GSO
3. The New Economy: Fundamentals for Coping Through Financial Crisis - Dr. Linwood Carver
4. Casting Your Net: Church Marketing in The Digital Age - Sis. Jessica Washington, Shady Grove Baptist – Salisbury
LUNCH BREAK
1pm - 2pm: ROWAN LEARNING INSTITUTE (RLI) - SESSION 2
Class Schedule (Zoom)
5. Singing In A Strange Land: Affects of Pandemic on The Worship Experience - Bishop George Pass, Village Life Church - GSO
6. Black Church: Relic or Relevant In The Age of Pandemic - Dr. C. Anthony Jones, Jr., United Cornerstone Baptist - WS
7. Women’s Auxiliary Study: God’s Power to Help Hurting People Dr. Marilyn King-Lewis & Women’s Auxiliary Officers
8. Usher’s Auxiliary Study Bro. Rodney McCormick
6pm: EVENING WORSHIP BROADCAST (FACEBOOK LIVE)
Dr. Robert McGowens, Greater Galilee Baptist Church - Winston-Salem Evening Preacher
7pm - 8:30pm: RBA YOUTH ACTIVITIES AND VIRTUAL HANGOUT ON ZOOM (Sponsored By Dr. Kia Hood & Union Baptist - Jamestown)
8pm: PASTOR’S ONLY: CLERGY CARE DURING COVID-19 (ZOOM) - Dr. Derrick Thorpe, First Baptist Church - Graham, Facilitator
9pm: RBA ORDINATION CANDIDATE PREACHING FESTIVAL (FACEBOOK LIVE)
THURSDAY, JULY 23
9am: MORNING WORSHIP (FACEBOOK LIVE) - Dr. Kia Hood, Union Baptist - Jamestown, NC, Morning Homiletician
10am: BUSINESS MEETING (ZOOM)
6:30pm: LIVE MODERATOR’S ADDRESS / ORDINATION SERVICE (FACEBOOK LIVE) - Dr. T. Ashby Banister, 29th Moderator Temple Memorial Baptist Church - High Point
9pm: ANNUAL SESSION CONCERT (FACEBOOK LIVE) - FEATURING JEKALYN CARR