Deb Kluttz |
February 24, 2020 |
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For seven years, female survivors of human sex trafficking have had a safe place to receive long-term recovery, inspiration and encouragement. That safe place is Homestead Ministries in Manhattan, Kansas, a transitional home for female adults rescued from human...
Communication Team |
February 24, 2020 |
Local Church News
Some Great Lakes Region District churches have been serving their local communities in “great” ways in the last few months. The Wesleyan Church of Fairfield in Fairfield, Illinois, has held an annual Community Coat Drive nine times. More than 250 coats and 120 pairs...
Jodi Lewis |
February 23, 2020 |
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THE EARLY YEARS The story of the Hephzibah Orphanage began in January 1900 when Bettie Tyler and her sister, Mollie, took a leap of faith. The sisters moved into their dilapidated childhood farmhouse on 600 acres in Bolingbroke, Georgia, in order to care for four...
Shelley Noyes |
February 21, 2020 |
Colleges News
Students enrolled at Houghton College can now simultaneously obtain an undergraduate degree from Houghton nd an undergraduate nursing degree through Indiana Wesleyan University’s (IWU) 3+1 Transition to Nursing accelerated program. The IWU program allows students to...
Communication Team |
February 6, 2020 |
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Dr. John A. Dunn, former chief executive officer of Wesleyan Investment Foundation (WIF), died February 3, 2020. He was 85. Dunn served in pastoral ministry in Pilgrim Holiness churches in Wisconsin and Wesleyan churches in Arizona. He also served as district...
Ethan Linder |
February 3, 2020 |
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Our approach to managing our money, the traits we prize in others, our way of handling conflict, our weekend calendars: all these things are formed by the people and institutions that shape us. As we mature in our relationships with people and institutions, part of...
Wayne Schmidt |
February 3, 2020 |
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How good is the God we serve! He has continued to bless The Wesleyan Church beyond measure, multiplying daily those who are being saved and discipled. As we draw nearer to General Conference 2020, my prayer is that our Wesleyan churches unite and participate in what...
Tricia Rife |
February 3, 2020 |
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If Wesleyan youth were expecting just another international youth conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, in December 2019, they returned home with more. The quadrennial international youth conference of The Wesleyan Church (TWC) is named Follow. Approximately 3,000 students...
Tricia Rife |
January 30, 2020 |
News Wesleyans in the News
Each week, Wesleyans and Wesleyan churches are featured in online news publications. If you see a news item that relates to Wesleyans, please forward the link to communications@wesleyan.org. Formerly homeless couple paying it forward in Pennsylvania A married couple...
Communication Team |
January 29, 2020 |
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A baptism service held at Hillside Wesleyan Church (HWC) in Clyde, Michigan, provided the opportunity for stories of life transformation to be told. Fifteen people were baptized at on October 6, 2019, including several family groups: a mother and son; a father, mother...
Keith Schubert |
January 6, 2020 |
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Fremont, Michigan, usually doesn’t rise to the top of many people’s “highly influential cities” list. Aside from being the home of Gerber, the well-known baby food company, our central Michigan town rarely rises to the spotlight. That’s because the demographics can be...
Communication Team |
January 6, 2020 |
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Two Wesleyan ministers are working to raise money for missionaries, church plants and mission projects through the unique method of flipping houses. Rev. Bill Foster, a Global Partners missionary for over 30 years, founded Habitat for Missions (HFM) in 2005 as a...
Shelley Noyes |
January 3, 2020 |
Colleges News
Houghton College Online announced a new way to prepare for ministry or enrich an existing ministry through its Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Christian ministries degree. This two-year, fully-online degree can be used to meet educational requirements for...
Heather Hill and Kris Meyer |
January 2, 2020 |
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Pastor Raymond leads Lighthouse Wesleyan Outreach Ministry, serving the small, largely underserved 8-Mile Rock community outside of Freeport in the Bahamas. He was an assistant pastor at another, more-established Wesleyan church in the area before feeling that God...
Dustin Stephens |
January 2, 2020 |
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Sheridan Wesleyan Church (SWC) in Sheridan, Wyoming, is not a particularly large church nor is it a particularly small church. In comparison with some of the larger churches in the Northwest District and The Wesleyan Church as a whole, however, it is rather...
Tricia Rife |
December 26, 2019 |
News Wesleyans in the News
Each week, Wesleyans and Wesleyan churches are featured in online news publications. If you see a news item that relates to Wesleyans, please forward the link to communications@wesleyan.org. Michigan church encouraging the hopeless Community Wesleyan Church in Elkton,...
Matthew Tietje |
December 16, 2019 |
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Reflecting on the past year, we collected the top 10 social media posts from The Wesleyan Church: 1. Sri Lanka: Call to Prayer On Easter Sunday morning, the Sri Lankan church was attacked. The Church asked us to pray that in the midst of darkness, Christ would shine....
Tricia Rife |
December 16, 2019 |
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Global Partners, which gives global focus to the mission of The Wesleyan Church, has released its 2019 annual report in a special edition of The Amplifier. Statistics and stories testify to the worldwide transforming presence occurring through Global Partners...
Rachel Ashley |
December 16, 2019 |
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Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University and The Wesleyan Church are seeing shared fruits from the first 10 years of having a dedicated TWC seminary. Association of Theological Schools (ATS) data shows that from 1997 to 2009 — the year Wesley Seminary launched —...
Kristin Armstrong |
December 16, 2019 |
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Where can you sit in the same seat for worship in the morning and the latest Star Wars movie in the evening: at the Springville Crossing campus of Watermark Wesleyan Church. Located inside the historic Joylan Theatre in the village of Springville, New York, this...
Tricia Rife |
December 13, 2019 |
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Wesleyans in Mozambique are still recovering months after Cyclones Idai and Kenneth hit the country in March and April 2019, respectively. A total of 20 churches and communities in Mozambique were affected by the cyclones. Beira and surrounding areas continue to...
Weston Stutz |
December 12, 2019 |
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“Well, this has been harder than I thought.” Some people call it church planting, while many pastors and leaders affectionately dub this the “whirlwind.” It’s the wild journey pastors go through on the way to fulfilling that beautiful dream God has sowed deep inside...
Tricia Rife |
December 12, 2019 |
News Wesleyans in the News
Each week, Wesleyans and Wesleyan churches are featured in online news publications. If you see a news item that relates to Wesleyans, please forward the link to communications@wesleyan.org. Indiana church receives “2019 Best of Greenfield Award” According to the...
Ron McClung |
December 2, 2019 |
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Rev. Jose Pacheco, campus pastor with Central Wesleyan Church in Holland, Michigan, attended his first meeting of the General Board of The Wesleyan Church as it convened its 140th session on November 19-20, 2019, at the denominational headquarters in Fishers, Indiana....
