Hood Theological Seminary News Service

Rev. Dr. Laticia Hill Godette to speak at Hood Seminary’s virtual opening convocation

The fall 2024 virtual opening convocation will be held on Sept. 13, from 6-7:10 p.m., via Zoom. The speaker will be Rev. Dr. Laticia Hill Godette, Esq., a distinguished Hood Theological Seminary alum and the new presiding elder of the Wadesboro-Monroe District of the Piedmont Episcopal Area of the A.M.E. Zion Church.

More information about the speaker and Zoom link to attend the event can be found at: https://www.hoodseminary.edu/news/fall-2024-opening-convocation 

Bishop Gregory Vaughn Palmer to be guest lecturer at the Virtual Ruben L. Speaks Lecture Series

Hood Theological Seminary will hold its annual Ruben L. Speaks Endowed Memorial Lecture Series on Oct. 4 and 5. This year’s featured presenter is Bishop Gregory Vaughn Palmer, who is the former, now retired, presiding prelate of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church and, previously, the longest serving active UMC bishop. The lectures, which are free of charge and open to the public, will be held at 6 p.m. on Oct. 4, and 11 a.m. on Oct. 5. This year the lecture series will be virtual through Zoom.

Please note, there are two Zoom links, one for Friday and one for Saturday. 

Go here for further information:  https://www.hoodseminary.edu/news/fall-2024-virtual-speaks-lecture-series.

The Ruben L. Speaks Endowed Memorial Lecture Series is named in honor of the late Bishop Ruben Lee Speaks, a gifted African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church leader acknowledged on numerous occasions for his leadership and creative engagement in ministry. Speaks received the Chancellor’s Award from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Brooklyn Advisory Committee of the New York Urban League.