More than 300 church leaders from across the nation gathered last week in Chattanooga for a week-long conference to improve their spiritual and financial well-being.
The annual International Congress of Churches & Ministers World Conference, hosted in the organization’s church on Lee Highway, mixed worship, speakers and youth-led presentations.
Joyce Warrington, an apostle with Dover Miracle Revival Center in Delaware, has attended the conference since it began more than 10 years ago. The trainings and networking inspire her, she said.
Church leaders are often overworked with all the competing demands of the communities they serve, Warrington said. A retreat like the one in Chattanooga is restorative, she said.
“You have pastors who are hurting,” Warrington said. “You have pastors who are wounded. Even shepherds bleed.”