We now have 44 eager young preachers registered for the Festival of Young Preachers and there are only two weeks remaining before the October 1 deadline. If I know students–and I do, having taught for 11 years at Georgetown College–many young preachers that we have spoken with will wait until the very last minute, as if it were a research paper due for some school class.
Every day I speak with young preachers who declare they are hard at work on their registration: an Antiochan Orthodox deacon in school in New York City; four young Baptists at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta; another Baptist from Boliver, Missouri; five young preachers from one Presbyterian Church in Indiana; and an independent Christian student from Ohio.
My associate Lee Huckleberry on holiday in Boston (to watch his beloved Red Socks) visited with the professor of preaching at Harvard Divinity School, who promised to urge that school to be a Founding Partner and send students to the Festival in January. And in Atlanta, Morehouse College is so pumped, as we say, they have hosting this very night the second evening of their own two-week festival of preaching; more than 25 of their students have preached and a whole contingent of them are coming to Louisville in January.
A Lutheran student called today from Minnesota and one of my Leadership Team members called from Tampa. I spend most of the day on the campus of Asbury Seminary and College, in Wilmore, Kentucky, and on Monday I will be meeting with students and faculty at Anderson University and Seminary in Anderson, Indiana.
Better not delay your registration. There may not be enough space available on October 1.