How to Flourish: Faith, Work, and Economics

Ethan Linder | October 19, 2015 | Blog Multiplication Thriving Clergy

“It’s rare to have an opportunity to be able to help members of your congregation to inhabit their vocation as part of a Kingdom calling, much less work with other church leaders to strategize how to transform your church and community. Psalm 104 gave us...

Wesleyans lead the way at Residency Summit in Chicago

Joel Liechty | October 14, 2015 | Thriving Clergy Blog Multiplication

Pictured: Luke and Kyla, residents at All Shores Church in Spring Lake, Michigan. “We should have just had you Wesleyans send us all your materials and not even met” a co-host half-joked to me after the Wesleyans gave a strong presentation of our residency...

The Houghton Way: 3 Ways Houghton College is Making Disciples

Ethan Linder | July 10, 2015 | Thriving Clergy Blog Discipleship

“If you want to know God, organize your day around connecting with God.” –Dr. Michael Jordan, Houghton’s Dean of the Chapel Houghton College was founded in 1883. After over 132 years, they still offer an “Academically Challenging,...

Five Surprising Ways IWU is Changing Ministry Education

Ethan Linder | June 16, 2015 | Thriving Clergy Blog Multiplication

In 2012, the Kern Family Foundation partnered with the Indiana Wesleyan University School of Theology and Ministry to create a program to help students be ” More hirable, better trained, and less indebted.” Admission to the Kern program is contingent on...

How Our Work Gets God’s Work Done: Revitalizing Wesleyan Higher Education

Ethan Linder | June 10, 2015 | Blog Discipleship Thriving Clergy

On May 28, The Division of Education and Clergy Development hosted a meeting of Wesleyan Higher Education faculty at Indiana Wesleyan University for the 2015 Doctrinal Symposium. This year’s symposium was a working meeting that followed up on last year’s...

4 Reasons Why Pastors Should Love Numbers

Steve Dunmire | May 12, 2015 | Thriving Clergy Blog Discipleship

May 31 brings to close another statistical year for many churches. Whether your fiscal/statistical year aligns with the calendar year or not, I know many pastors dislike statistical reports, and they come up with many reasons for why traditional statistics don’t...

Lead Practitioners Explore Pastoral Residencies

Joel Liechty & Keith Drury | November 15, 2013 | Blog Thriving Clergy Multiplication

Early Ministry Initiative hosts a meeting to develop resident pastor positions. Rev. Russ Gunsalus, Executive Director of The Division of Education & Clergy Development, convened more than 50 Wesleyan ministers from across the denomination the last week of...

80+ Attend Inaugural Clergy Care Conference at IWU

Dave Higle | October 17, 2013 | Thriving Clergy Blog Discipleship

Education and Clergy Development in the new quadrennium was to start a conference for clergy care givers—the counselors and others who offer front line assistance to pastors dealing with personal issues. The published focus of the conference is to “investigate best...