High Point University in High Point, N.C.
HIGH POINT, N.C. – Bishop L. Jonathan Holston, resident bishop of the South Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church, will deliver an inspirational message of hope and peace at High Point University‘s annual service of worship in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Bishop Holston
Bishop Holston will speak at 11 a.m. Jan. 16 in the Charles E. Hayworth Sr. Memorial Chapel. The service is open to the public, and tickets are not required. It also will be streamed live at highpoint.edu/live.
The annual chapel service celebrates the life and work of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and features noteworthy clergy and scholars from across the country.
The Genesis Gospel Choir will provide music for the service. Interfaith United, the Board of Stewards, National Pan-Hellenic Council, Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, Alpha Kappa Alpha and Black Cultural Awareness will serve as worship leaders and greeters.
Bishop Holston was elected to his position as resident bishop on Sept. 1, 2012. Coming to South Carolina from the North Georgia Conference, he served as senior pastor of St. James United Methodist Church in Atlanta for seven years. Prior to that, he served as superintendent of the Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford District from 1997-2005. His other appointments include associate director of the North Georgia Conference Council on Ministries, senior pastor of Clifton UMC and senior pastor of Marietta Street UMC.
Having served as a delegate for the General Conference, Jurisdictional Conference and the World Methodist Conference, Holston also possesses extraordinary knowledge gained by his presence throughout the years on numerous boards and committees of the United Methodist Church at the conference and general church level.
His love for missions has taken him around the world and gained him recognition as a mission specialist in the North Georgia Conference Council of Ministries. In his work as conference disaster relief coordinator, he served on the United Methodist Committee on Relief, on the Catastrophic Disaster Response Team and as the Church World Service disaster consultant in Georgia. He has traveled as a specialist in missions to Uganda, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, China and Hong Kong.
Holston earned his Master of Divinity in biblical studies from The Interdenominational Theological Center, Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, in 1983. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in religion from the University of Georgia.
Attendees are encouraged to enter campus through the welcome center at the intersection of North University Parkway and Panther Drive. Parking will be available behind Hayworth Fine Arts Center.
