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Welcome Jennifer Copeland as Executive Director

George Reed, Former Executive Director · April 16, 2015 · 1 Comment

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I’m exceptionally pleased to announce that the Rev. Dr. Jennifer Copeland has been named by the Council’s Governing Board to be the next Executive Director of the North Carolina Council of Churches. Jennifer has served as the United Methodist campus minister and executive director of the Wesley Fellowship at Duke University since 1999. (Pictured above, she’s on a spring break trip with students to Nome, Alaska. Jennifer is standing behind the orange sign.) A native of South Carolina, she earned BA, MDiv, and PhD degrees from Duke. Prior to coming to the campus ministry position, she pastored United Methodist churches in South Carolina for ten years.  She will start with the Council during the summer.

Steve Hickle, President of the Council, commented, “We are tremendously excited to welcome aboard Dr. Jennifer Copeland to be our executive director. The search committee was drawn to her perception of the council’s work, her ability to think analytically and theologically, and her vision for the future of the ecumenical movement. We are deeply grateful for her calling to share her gifts with The Council and our diverse people, congregations and judicatories.”

I am grateful to Steve Smith and Jocleen McCall, co-chairs, and all the members of the Search Committee. They have work tirelessly since I announced my retirement last September to bring this process to such a happy conclusion. I look forward to working with Jennifer to ensure a smooth time of transition, and I am excited to be leaving this wonderful organization in such capable hands.

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George Reed, Former Executive Director

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As I had hoped, I have spent more time reading books in my retirement. One recent read was Jon Meacham’s splendid biography of Thomas Jefferson. I resonated with something TJ wrote in a letter shortly after leaving the White House in 1809: “I am here [at Monticello] enjoying the ineffable luxury of being owner of my own time.” I can’t say that I am complete owner of my time, but I am really enjoying not being controlled by clock and calendar. Well, except when there’s a deadline for Raleigh Report.

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  1. AvatarPhyllis Maine Cbarlotte and /Trinity NC says

    July 20, 2018 at 11:41 am

    This weeks Disciplines topic and your commentary is right on target . Thanks for your words of wisdom Hope your work will contention at Duke.

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