CLERGY CONVOCATION 2025
August 12-14, 2025
REGISTER NOW AT THIS LINK
The Orders Executive Committee invites you to join us at Indian Wells for learning and conversation, as well as meaningful time for relaxation and connecting.
Location: Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, 44-400 Indian Wells Lane, Indian Wells, CA 92210
The event will begin with registration on August 12, 2025 at 12:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) and will end on August 14, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time).
Registration Cost: $400 (includes all 5 meals, starting with dinner on Tuesday through breakfast on Thursday)
Spouse/Child Registration Cost: $340 (for meals only) If spouses want to attend the training, they must register and pay the regular registration cost. Child care will be available for any registered child at no cost.
Registration Deadline: July 18, 2025
Hotel Rate: $189.91 per night, which includes the resort fee and all taxes and fees (Total inclusive with taxes and resort fees for the two nights is $379.82) Each hotel room may have up to 4 people at no additional fee. The hotel rate does not include your registration fee. You must pay the registration fee separately to receive meals with the group and attend the event. Rates for the hotel will increase after the deadline.
Why you should book with the group and not on other websites: Please help us to meet our contract with the hotel by booking your room with the link below or calling the hotel directly and reserve under the Clergy Convocation Group to receive the lower room rate. Our contract with the hotel is based on a certain number of rooms and meals. When you book this hotel directly you increase our likelihood of fulfilling the contract, which helps the rates for everybody. We also need all participants to register so that we meet our contracted meals.
Hotel Reservation Link: https://book.passkey.com/go/CALPAC
If you call the hotel directly to book your room, let them know you are booking with the Clergy Convocation Group to receive the lower room rate, (760) 773-4444.
Continuing Education Event: This is a continuing education event for Clergy of the California-Pacific Annual Conference. If you are not currently a provisional member, ordained clergy, appointed as a local pastor or assigned as a lay person assigned in the California-Pacific Annual Conference, please get pre-approval from your District Superintendent in order to attend. The Clergy Convocation is designed and formatted as a continuing education event for clergy.
Scholarships: We are fortunate to have additional scholarships this year to help the costs of registration for this event. There are scholarships available from the Board of Ordained Ministry out of the Ministerial Education Funds and The California-Pacific United Methodist Foundation this year. Each District Superintendent may approve a limited number of scholarships given for registration for this event. If your local church is not able to sponsor you to attend and you do not have other funds to help, you are welcome to select the “Request a Ministerial Education Fund Scholarship” at the bottom of this Registration Form. Your District Superintendent will have to approve the request for these funds. For Ordained Clergy, if you have not applied for your Continuing Education funds for this Quadrennium, there are limited funds left available. Please check with Orders Executive Committee and apply online at the website at www.calpacumc.org/bom/Orders. Request for a scholarship first to see if it is available through the Clergy Convocation Scholarship funds, don’t apply for the Continuing Education funds until you hear back to see if you are awarded this scholarship. Also, please do not send a registration payment until you hear back from the Registrar. Scholarships are not guaranteed so the earlier you register the better. Scholarships are not available for spouses and children to attend. We thank the Board of Ordained Ministry and the California-Pacific United Methodist Foundation for their generous support.
For questions, please contact Associate Director, Cathy Wilson at cwilson@calpacumc.org.
Guest Speaker: Ashley Boggan D., PhD
Dr. Ashley Boggan D. is the General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History. In this role, she ensures that The UMC understands its past in order to envision a more equitable future for all Methodists. Boggan earned her PhD from Drew Theological School’s Graduate Division of Religion, specializing in both Methodist/Wesleyan Studies and Women’s/Gender Studies. She earned an M.A. from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, specializing in American Religious History. She has previously worked as staff at the General Commission on Archives and History (2012-2014) and the Connectional Table of The United Methodist Church (2014-2016). She was the Director of United Methodist Studies and Assistant Professor Christian History at Hood Theological Seminary (Salisbury, NC), an AME Zion Seminary, from 2017-2019 and was the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion at High Point University (High Point, NC) from 2019-2020. Boggan is a lay member of the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference and the daughter of two ordained United Methodist ministers. Her Methodist lineage dates beyond this, back to the early 19th century when her great-great-great grandfathers were Methodist circuit-riders. Boggan is on the Advisory Board for the National Museum of American Religion and is the author of Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights (2020); Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality (2018); Wesleyan Vile-tality: Reclaiming the Heart of Methodist Identity (2025); and added to the revised American Methodism: A Compact History (2022).
Recommended Books by Dr. Ashley Boggan D.: Wesleyan Vile-tality: Reclaiming the Heart of Methodist Identity (2025) & American Methodism: A Compact History (2022)
