The National Festival of Young Preachers, along with regional, campus, and denominational festivals, is sponsored by the Academy of Preachers, a national organization with a mission to identify, network, support, and inspire young people in the call to gospel preaching. e publishing initiative of the Academy of Preachers includes a Festival Sermon Book Series, now numbering nine annual volumes (listed inside) plus the special collection entitled From Generation to Generation: A Commemorative Collection of African American Millennial Sermons from the Festivals of Young Preachers 2010-2015, edited by Winterbourne L. Harrison-Jones AoP'10.