Rev. Adam Hamilton, the founding pastor of United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, will lead three teaching sessions at the 21st Session of the Dakotas Annual Conference June 5-7, 2014 in Rapid City, South Dakota.  Everyone is welcome.

Hamilton launched The Church of the Resurrection with his wife and two children in 1990.  It has since grown to over 18,000 adults and children in 2014 under his leadership.  Today the church is the largest United Methodist Church in the United States with an average weekend attendance of 8,600. 

The congregation has a three-fold focus:  Connecting with thinking people and inviting them to become followers of Jesus Christ, engaging in acts of justice and mercy in the community, and working to renew the United Methodist Church.

He grew up in the Kansas City area, earned a B.A. degree in Pastoral Ministry from Oral Roberts and a Master of Divinity Degree from Southern Methodist University where he was awarded the B’nai B’rith Award in Social Ethics.

Adam has written 15 books, all published by Abingdon Press, including When Christians Get it Wrong, Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White, The Way:  Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus, and Making Sense of the Bible.  

A time has been desigated on Thrusday, June 5, 2014 at the Annual Conference in Rapid City for Rev. Hamilton to sign books.  Books will be available for purchase throughou the conference.