Luigi Peñaranda |
August 3, 2020 |
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To the churches that do not consider themselves to be in the dispersion or have not experienced exile, along with those elders and ministers that live in what they call their native land. Grace to you and peace from Jesus, Messiah and Lord. I am a migrant: an emigrant...
Micah Kimball |
August 3, 2020 |
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With a near 80-percent free-and-reduced lunch rate at Jefferson Schools in Holland, Michigan, Central Wesleyan Church (CWC) was ready to take action following the close of the school system for COVID-19. “When we heard that schools would be closing back in March, our...
Nestor Gudiño |
August 3, 2020 |
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On July 16th, more than 100 Hispanic pastors and leaders with The Wesleyan Church participated in the denomination’s pre-conference in conjunction with the larger Exponential Español event. This year, the conference was entirely online, which facilitated mass...
Micah Kimball |
August 3, 2020 |
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Following a bout of colon cancer in 2002, Rev. Verl Light, founder of the Greater Ohio District Prayer Partners, was covered in prayer by fellow believers, including those from his son’s church. “After I had regained my strength, my son asked me to come to his church...
Communication Team |
July 30, 2020 |
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The third-annual All Nations Service at Moncton Wesleyan Church (Moncton, New Brunswick) took place July 19, 2020, highlighting the integration of large numbers of newcomers (more than 100 people) into the church body over the last three years. The service featured...
Tricia Rife |
July 30, 2020 |
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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. SWU offers Flex Ministry Program The new Flex Ministry Program at Southern...
David Durst |
July 23, 2020 |
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Farewell to Dr. David L. Thompson, a friend, a father, a husband, and a disciple. Farewell to a scholar, a teacher, a pastor and a lover of God and God’s Word. David made disciples who are making disciples who will make disciples. For four decades, he taught biblical...
Kim Gladden |
July 20, 2020 |
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A new day is dawning in discipleship. Traditionally when we think of discipleship, we think of two wings: education and coaching. Education has to do with imparting information and setting up models and structures for growth. Coaching has to do with environments for...
Ted Stepp |
July 20, 2020 |
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My family was on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains when we learned of the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic that has taken the world by storm. We came home to a very different situation than we had left. Our district superintendent, Rev. Aaron Sherman,...
Ethan Linder |
July 20, 2020 |
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The Wesleyan Church emerges from a lineage of Christians who believe holiness is both personal and social. Even as we engage in practices — like Scripture-reading, prayer and tithing — that nourish our own alignment with God, we also work in our communities through...
Tricia Rife |
July 20, 2020 |
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When the COVID pandemic hit in March, Rev. Andrew Kinney, youth pastor at Chapel Pike Wesleyan Church (CPWC) in Marion, Indiana, began talking with his lead pastor, Rev. Steven Colter, about how ministry may be forced to look different. Neither dreamed ministry would...
Micah Kimball |
July 16, 2020 |
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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 pastor discusses churches’ role in overcoming racism Rev. Chris...
Ethan Linder |
July 15, 2020 |
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English Desde el 2002, FLAMA (Fraternidad Latinoamericana de Adiestramiento Ministerial Alternativo) ha ofrecido a los estudiantes ministeriales hispanos un camino hacia el ministerio licenciado y ordenación en La Iglesia Wesleyana (LIW). Desde su inicio, FLAMA ha...
Communications Team |
July 15, 2020 |
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Situated in the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains stands Brookhill Wesleyan Church (BWC). Founded on October 16, 1983, in Forest, Virginia, the original charter members determined that BWC should be God’s lighthouse, a place where people could find God and be...
Tricia Rife |
July 15, 2020 |
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Shady Grove Wesleyan Church (SGWC) is a suburban church located in Colfax between three major cities: High Point, Greensboro and Winston-Salem. A church with a multiethnic and multigenerational congregation of approximately 650, it has continued to see financial...
Ethan Linder |
July 15, 2020 |
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Español Since 2002, FLAMA (Fraternidad Latinoamericana de Adiestramiento Ministerial Alternativo) has offered Hispanic ministerial students a pathway toward licensed and ordained ministry in The Wesleyan Church (TWC). Since its inception, FLAMA has included intensive...
Communication Team |
July 6, 2020 |
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Hydrant Church, located in Goldsboro, North Carolina, was forced to make budgetary cuts as a result of COVID-19. One of its most difficult decisions? Laying off its youth pastor. Surge, the name of Hydrant’s youth group, has struggled in establishing stability, as the...
Nathan Maskery |
July 6, 2020 |
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The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, inspired a conversation on racism between three Canadian residents. But we did not want to simply talk about what is happening south of the border, we wanted to talk about the racism that happens here — in Canada....
Tricia Rife |
July 6, 2020 |
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The time had come for Lindsay Phipps’ third child to head to kindergarten in the fall of 2018. A stay-at-home mom in Altoona, Iowa, Phipps began to wonder what her time would look like with all three kids out of the house. She began to pray and Psalm 90:17 came to...
Communications Team |
July 6, 2020 |
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Rev. Keith Loy, founding and senior pastor of Celebrate Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, recently talked to Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner in an interview touching on the challenges of racism. Williams-Skinner is a faith and community leader, advisor and author with...
Tricia Rife |
July 2, 2020 |
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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. Missouri church set to reopen after fire destroys facility Cornerstone...
Micah Kimball |
June 30, 2020 |
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Saint John First Wesleyan Church (SJ1) in Saint John, New Brunswick, has recently launched 18:20, a house church model intended to allow congregants to worship safely together as restrictions still limit large public gatherings. Grounded in Matthew 18:20, which...
Catherine Howie |
June 30, 2020 |
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But God. Throughout the Bible there are passages that describe difficult situations that are redeemed with these two words. Noah spent years building the ark and months floating in it during the flood, “but God remembered Noah” (Genesis 8:1). For decades, Reuben and...
Communication Team |
June 15, 2020 |
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The Wesleyan Church will convene for General Conference June 6-9, 2021, in St. Louis, Missouri. “The General Board made the courageous decision in March to postpone General Conference 2020 in order to allow The Wesleyan Church to focus on ministry during COVID-19,”...
