Wood Institute is asking for community feedback and ideas at a public meeting set for Tuesday night.
Dr. Marty Wiseman will moderate the town hall-type meeting at 6:30 p.m. in Bennett Hall on the former Wood College campus in Mathiston. The United Methodist layman from Starkville is director of the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University.
Wiseman chairs a task force which Bishop Kenneth L. Carder of the Mississippi Area of the United Methodist Church appointed to develop a new mission for the campus. The 19 members of the task force include area residents, Wood College graduates, United Methodist leaders and pastors, economic and community development experts, and a rural physician.
Tuesday's meeting will be introduce the local population to plans for the institute and obtain input on ways the United Methodist Church can serve Webster County and the surrounding area..
Located on the Wood campus, the institute will be a multifaceted ministry of the United Methodist Church for service to the community. The vision for the institute is of an education, leadership formation, retreat and mission center.
"We encourage people to come and share. The task force can be more successful with contributions from the people Wood Institute will serve," said Debbie Price, United Methodist deaconess serving at Wood.
The Wood College board of trustees announced the college would cease operating as a two-year, degree-granting institution June 30.
For more information, contact Price at 263-5352, ext. 125.
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