Thrive in Five: Spiritual: April 2025
We are all being formed. The question is, by who or what? It’s time to pause and truly evaluate: Who or what are you a disciple of?
Education & Clergy Development
Thriving Together March 2025
Save the Date WHWC Conference 2026
Ordination: A Calling and Spiritual Journey
Why is ordination is important in the life of a minister? Ordination is more than a designation or title, but also a spiritually formative journey, an ordering, and an act of service.
Clergy Care Resources
An inside look on clergy care and the resources available to help prevent pastoral burnout.
Thrive in Five: Intellectual: March 2025
Adaptive Leadership for Wesleyan Pastors in an Era of Change In a time of rapid cultural shifts, declining denominational loyalty, and increasing polarization, Wesleyan pastors must navigate complex challenges. Traditional leadership approaches may no longer suffice....
Thriving Together February 2025
Spiritual Cheeseburgers: An Unorthodox Day Away with God I often follow the same pattern for a “day away with God” – worship, prayer, reading, and reflection. You know, all the spiritual practices that fill the tank. But one day God chose to meet me in a totally...
Thrive in Five: Relational: February 2025
In his book People Fuel: Fill Your Tank for Life, Love, and Leadership, Dr. John Townsend identifies 22 nutrients that enrich relationships. When these nutrients are present in our relationships, then we can be more open to others, more creative, and more...
Thriving Together- January 2025
Live Anointed: How the Holy Spirit Sanctifies Men and Women to Lead Together Enjoy this excerpt from the newly released book, Live Anointed: How the Holy Spirit Sanctifies Men and Women to Lead Together, written by Rev. Katie Lance: When I sensed the Holy Spirit...
Thrive in Five: January 2025
Taking care of the heart is foundational to all health goals.
Education for transformation
ECD’s College Day connects Wesleyan universities around formation.
Growth in Community
Wesleyan Students Share Formative Impact of their Doctoral Programs
Thriving Together- December 2024
Treasuring Uncertainty Read Luke 2:8-20, 2:41-52 God created me to be a very logical, ordered person. I see the beauty in His creation when life follows the predictable processes that He puts in place. Nothing is more miraculous or beautiful to me, for example, than...
Thrive In 5-The Importance of Home and Housing Allowance for Pastors
More churches are realizing this and are now helping pastors buy their own homes instead.
Thrive In 5: Grieving Well
Grief is the process through which “weeping may spend the night but there is joy in the morning”
Thriving Together- November 2024
Such a Time as This Esther 4:14: “And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” Romans 12:2: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Thank you, Lord, for His...
Thrive In 5: Intellectual October 2024
Thriving organizations understand which seasons require centralized leadership and which seasons call for decentralized leadership.
Thriving Together- October 2024
Your gifts and talents are not just for you; they are to serve others. So it is no longer just about you but about your neighbor—a double responsibility.
Thrive In 5- Relational: Practices that Sustain Community
Today ministry leaders also seek to cultivate such unity of heart, mind, and even resources within the congregation in general and leadership teams in particular.
Thriving Together- September 2024
PreacHer Sunday Is An Open Invitation to Men I might not be a pastor today if it weren’t for men. Before you read that statement and make certain assumptions about my theology, let me explain. Many women in ministry have shared heartbreaking stories of how men (males...
A Heartbeat for Transformation
With so many options on where to study and considerations to influence that choice, Wesleyan higher education consistently emphasizes character.
Nurturing Pastors: The impact of FLAMA’s Retreat on ministerial formation
At the end of April, the entire FLAMA team assembled at the Wesleyan Headquarters building in Fishers, Indiana, for a retreat: Impulsando la Formación Hispana (Promoting Hispanic Education).
Thriving Together- August 2024
In this edition, we want to celebrate and highlight the thirty-six women ordained in 2024.
Learning as Practical Divinity: Wesley’s Vision for Holistic Education
Central to Wesley’s educational philosophy was the balance between spiritual and secular education.
Thrive In 5: Physical – Bone Health
The skeletal system is very important to the human body.
