Wadesboro-Monroe District of the AME Zion Church

09/10/2026

09/10/2026

Bishop Darryl B. Starnes and Mrs. Camille C. Starnes, invite you to Leadership Training Institute 2026 — “LTI Encounter!” Join us for three powerful days of learning, worship, fellowship, and spiritual renewal.

We are honored to welcome an outstanding lineup of presenters and preachers: Rev. Dr. Thomas Farrow, Sr., Rev. Dr. Jack Jackson, Rev. Dr. Clifford A. Jones, Sr., Rev. Dr. Laticia H. Godette, and Honorable G. K. Butterfield.

Come prepared to be equipped through daily workshops and inspired during nightly worship as we gather for these special Missionary and Evangelism sessions. There is a place for every leader, pastor, missionary, evangelist, member, and friend who is ready for a fresh encounter with God and renewed purpose for ministry.

📅 September 22–24, 2026
🕙 Daily Workshops: 10:00 AM
🕖 Nightly Worship: 7:00 PM
📍 Joseph S. Koury Convention Center
3121 W. Gate City Blvd., Greensboro, NC 27407

Make plans now to join us—and invite someone to experience the LTI Encounter! We are believing God for a powerful time of transformation, training, worship, and kingdom-building fellowship.

09/10/2026

| Livingstone College is emerging as a powerful destination for Black intellectual thought, cultural expression and academic excellence — and this fall, one of the nation’s most recognizable public intellectuals will join that movement.

Renowned author, professor, scholar, activist and cultural critic Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will join Livingstone College as a Visiting Scholar in Residence, launching a four-part residency designed to place some of the most consequential conversations shaping Black America at the center of the collegiate experience.

Through a series of lectures, student engagement opportunities and academic experiences, Dyson will bring together urban education, faith, hip-hop, politics, culture and democracy — creating a dynamic intellectual space where scholarship meets lived experience and where students are challenged to examine not only the world around them, but their responsibility to shape it.

Dyson’s residency will begin during Livingstone College’s Opening Convocation on Friday, September 18, at 10 a.m. in Varick Auditorium.
His inaugural lecture, “Represent: The Unfinished Fight” will explore Black excellence, the enduring importance of HBCUs and the transformative power of an educated mind.

The moment will carry added significance as Livingstone welcomes one of the largest and most academically competitive incoming classes in its history. The Convocation will include the College’s First-Year Pinning Ceremony, formally welcoming nearly 500 first-year and new students into a student body of approximately 1300.

The academic profile of Livingstone’s student body reflects the College’s growing momentum. More than 40 percent of students currently hold a GPA of 3.0 or higher, and approximately 450 students have earned recognition as Presidential Scholars, maintaining a GPA of 3.7 or above.

Learn more by visiting Livingstone.edu/News