Lott Carey to host 118th annual session
In above photo: Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro
Special to The Chronicle
The Lott Carey Global Christian Missional Community will host its 118th annual session at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center.
The location of the session is 3121 Gate City Blvd. (formerly High Point Road), Greensboro, NC.
The session will be held on Aug. 9 through Aug. 14.
The Session normally draws nearly 2,500 missional leaders from across the country and all over the globe.
The week’s agenda includes daily worship services, reports on Lott Carey’s global mission work and mission classes.
On Monday, Aug. 10, the S gospel concert, community feast and multiple mission projects across the Triad Area will launch the event on Monday, August 10.
The annual session comes to Greensboro under the leadership of Lott Carey President, Rev. Dr. Gregory Moss, senior pastor of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, Charlotte, N.C.
He will complete his three African-American heritages, and is a premier missions partner of Baptist heritage.
As a result of Lott Carey’s missional efforts men, women, boys and girls are being formed as transformational Christian disciples, gaining access to basic healthcare, acquiring quality education, gaining employable skills, getting freed from human trafficking, accessing clean drinking water and fresh food.
Recently, Lott Carey led efforts to help alleviate the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
It continues efforts to rebuild Haiti by forming teams to construct sustainable housing more than five years after the historic 2010 earthquake.
In addition to the on the grind projects, Lott Carey provides year round prayer support, technical assistant and financial support to its partners around the world.
“Lott Carey helps churches to extend the Christian witness throughout the world in ways that respects our indigenous hosts, and that empower local leaders and communities,” says Dr. David Emmanuel Goatley, Lott Carey’s chef executive officer.
“Our Annual Session is an opportunity to inform and inspire people to invest in Christian missions around the world and to learn firsthand about the impact we have made, challenges we face, and opportunities to serve,” he adds.
Lott Carey is a Global Missional Community founded in 1897 and is based in Washington, D.C.
Its mission is to help churches extend the Christian witness around the world.
It has a network of 3,000 churches, representing predominately more than one million African-American Christians.
It partners with organizations and individuals in over 20 countries on six continents.
For more information about Lott Carey and the Annual Session, please visit www.lottcarey.org or call (301) 429-3300.
