Wayne Schmidt |
May 28, 2020 |
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A swirl of emotions make up the grief process: loss, anger, denial, guilt — the list goes on. I’m feeling all these. This grief comes from news of lives senselessly, violently taken. Then come stories of protest, conflict, official statements and profanity-filled...
Tricia Rife |
May 28, 2020 |
Local Church News
A North Carolina pastor has gotten creative in how he leads church on Sunday mornings — from the fire escape at his church. Rev. Cameron Dockery of Robbins Wesleyan Church in Robbins, North Carolina, knew when the COVID-19 pandemic hit that his small church, with an...
Micah Kimball |
May 28, 2020 |
Local Church News
It was a big step when the small congregation, WE Church, located in Stockton, California, went to online services. With a fairly limited number of participants engaging in the online services, Pastors Bob and Jan Hughes and Pastor Jon Tomas wanted to connect with the...
Tricia Rife |
May 28, 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. Jo Anne Lyon featured in NAE podcast Dr. Jo Anne Lyon, General Superintendent...
Jo Anne Lyon |
May 28, 2020 |
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A few weeks ago, I was on a call with Bishop Tendero, secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance. He was discussing briefly what is happening around the world with COVID-19. His first words struck me, “In the Philippines, our mega churches have turned their...
Tricia Rife |
May 18, 2020 |
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Children and youth pastors across the U.S. have gotten creative in connecting with kids and teens in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Next Gen pastors in the Northwest District saw the need for helping foster those connections in a digital fashion and got to work....
Micah Kimball |
May 18, 2020 |
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What started as a nasty case of pneumonia in early February turned into a nearly seven-week hospital stay and near brink-of-death conditions for Sweetser Elementary teacher David Henry. Henry, who was admitted to Marion General Hospital on March 26, was quickly...
Ethan Linder |
May 18, 2020 |
Colleges Featured News News
When we think discipleship, we usually think togetherness. But when traditional means of gathering are disrupted, how does a community work together to practice life in the way of Christ? As COVID-19 disrupts the traditional methods of residential higher education,...
Micah Kimball |
May 18, 2020 |
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Next Gen Multiplication and Discipleship hosted its annual Fuel conference online this year, April 20-24. The event, Fuel WebCon, was scheduled to be online prior to COVID-19 shutdowns, as Wesleyan Next Gen leaders from around the world hoped to participate. Next Gen...
Micah Kimball |
May 15, 2020 |
COVID-19 COVID-19 News Local Church News
Easter Sunday 2020 looked different for churches around the world. From the comforts of home, believers watched services, participated in communion and were reminded of the resurrection of the Savior centuries ago. For 12Stone Church, though, physical barriers did not...
Bob Black |
May 14, 2020 |
News
Years ago, readers of the influential Christian Scholar’s Review were intrigued when an unexpected dialogue — actually, more like a debate — broke out in its pages. Someone was challenging the view of noted historian George Marsden, long accepted in scholarly circles,...
Tricia Rife |
May 14, 2020 |
COVID-19 COVID-19 News Local Church News
When someone from the community needed a funeral for a recently deceased family member in the midst of current COVID-19 restrictions, she approached Rev. George Larue of Faith Wesleyan Church in Salem, Virginia, for help. Larue has been hosting drive-in services on...
Tricia Rife |
May 14, 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. OKWU plans to re-open in fall Students at Oklahoma Wesleyan University can...
Melody Smith |
May 14, 2020 |
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I am privileged to pastor The Gathering, a church in Parkersburg, West Virginia, (formerly Homeland Community Wesleyan Church), located along the West Virginia-Ohio border. I’ve only been serving there since the summer of 2019, but in that short time I’ve seen God do...
Mike Oliver |
May 4, 2020 |
COVID-19 Featured News Local Church News
The Florida District approved our launch for Table Church in St. Petersburg, Florida, on March 11. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and our state was “locked down” just days later. But even with the lockdown, we felt the need to still launch our church, albeit in a...
Dennis Jackson |
May 4, 2020 |
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All great movements of God seem to flow out of a foundation of prayer. That was true on the day of Pentecost for the beginning of the Church, when believers gathered in one place praying as the Holy Spirit descended and filled them, and it was true in my life as a...
Micah Kimball |
May 4, 2020 |
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Three years ago, Highland Park Wesleyan Church (Ottawa, Ontario) found itself in the position many churches face: growth wasn’t happening, but the desire to grow and minister to the community was building within the people. Following the resignation of the senior...
Marilyn Searcey |
May 4, 2020 |
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Easter during a pandemic. They don’t prepare you for what you’re to do in a pandemic in seminary — particularly a pandemic at Easter. At any other time, I would be thinking about how to craft an interactive, all-age celebration of the resurrection at our church,...
Tricia Rife |
April 30, 2020 |
Colleges Local Church 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. Minnesota church extending kindness through bingo Waite Park Wesleyan Church...
Jason Donelle |
April 29, 2020 |
Colleges News
Kingswood University announced a new agreement with the Canada Atlantic District of the Church of the Nazarene (COTN). The agreement allows Nazarene students who are enrolled in Kingswood’s Bachelor of Arts in Ministry degrees to meet all academic requirements for...
Communication Team |
April 20, 2020 |
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On May 31, Pentecost Sunday, Wesleyans are gathering online for worship and prayer for the fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit. The hour-long event begins at 7 p.m. EST. “Wesleyans are people of prayer,” said General Superintendent Wayne Schmidt. “We live and minister...
Darrell Thornton |
April 20, 2020 |
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As the detective put handcuffs on me and loaded me into his patrol car, he said, “Darrell, you are a piece of ____!” His words hit me hard as I was jailed with more than 20 felony charges: trafficking opiates, forgery, larceny by employee and obtaining property...
Tricia Rife |
April 20, 2020 |
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Easter 2020 will be remembered as the year that pastors and churches within The Wesleyan Church had to exercise extra creativity in sharing about and celebrating Jesus’ resurrection. Most churches across North America were closed April 12, 2020, due to government...
Micah Kimball |
April 20, 2020 |
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Following a string of devastating tornadoes across the Kentucky-Tennessee District, Salem Ridge Wesleyan Church (Brooksville, Kentucky) and Faith Community Wesleyan Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee) experienced near-total losses of their church buildings and belongings....
