Tricia Rife |
November 19, 2018 |
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The Dirt Roads Network (DRN) hosted its first Church Planting Boot Camp, October 5–6, 2018, in Lamont, Kansas, at Lamont Wesleyan Church (LWC). In a town with a population of 28, LWC is a church of 150 people. LWC certainly understands the importance of church...
Tricia Rife |
November 19, 2018 |
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Rev. Nick Oliver attended his first Fuel, an event for Next Generations Ministries leaders, pastors and volunteers, in 2017. The worship, encouragement and networking at this event was key for Oliver, Next Generations pastor at LifePoint Church in Waldorf, Maryland....
Communication Team |
November 15, 2018 |
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Download this video: https://resources.wesleyan.org/thanksgiving18 Join the Mission House Army of Love: https://wesleyan.life/mission-house Find your place in the messy, beautiful MOSAIC: https://wesleyan.life/mosaic Become a storyteller:...
Jodi Lewis |
November 5, 2018 |
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Six years ago, Rev. Kyle Ray, lead pastor of Kentwood Community Church (KCC) in Kentwood, Michigan, challenged the congregation through a sermon series to be part of the answer in the worldwide orphan crisis. A year after the initial challenge, nearly 100 individuals...
Luis Torres |
November 5, 2018 |
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Four years ago I was at a great spot in my life. I was in seminary studying what I loved, I was (and still am) happily married to the woman of my dreams. I was on staff at a wonderful church with amazing people who passionately loved Jesus. And we had just bought our...
Ethan Linder |
November 5, 2018 |
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With 33 years of ministry experience, Rev. Phil Lewis views The Gathering as a time for ministers to be encouraged and sharpened by finding their place in a ministerial community. Lewis’ previous experiences at The Gathering have left him refreshed from fellowship...
Megan England |
October 18, 2018 |
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Dr. Everett Piper has announced his retirement as president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University. He announced the news at the OKWU Board of Trustees meeting on October 11. Retirement will take effect in June 2020. “Oklahoma Wesleyan University owes Dr. Piper a huge debt...
Tricia Rife |
October 15, 2018 |
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The winds, rains and waves of Hurricane Florence are long-gone from the United States’ East Coast, but the emotional and financial aftermath of the storm remains. It’s been one month since Florence plummeted the eastern United States on September 14. Much of the...
Ed Welch |
October 15, 2018 |
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In February 1904, Dr. L.G. Clayton, Rev. Eber Teter and Charles Smith were part of a group of about 20 leaders who met on the brow of a hill for a prayer meeting. Clayton was a family physician to the small town of Central, South Carolina, a community that got its...
Ron McClung |
October 15, 2018 |
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Morley, New York, is so far upstate it is only 20 miles from the Canadian border. It is geographically closer to Ottawa and Montreal, Canada, than it is to Albany, the state capital. Yet it is here in the north country of the Empire State that one of the first...
Ron McClung |
October 13, 2018 |
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Dr. Melvin E. Dieter, 93, former General Secretary of Educational Institutions for The Wesleyan Church, died on October 6, 2018, in Lyndhurst, Va. His wife of more than 72 years, Hallie Arline Kirtz Dieter, died the following day. In 1968, when the merging General...
Communication Team |
October 10, 2018 |
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In early October, over 250 Wesleyan pastors and lay leaders from around the Midwest gathered for a sold-out Disciple Making Conference at Trinity Church in Indianapolis. The conference was designed to inspire and equip pastors and lay leaders to build disciple-making...
Jennifer Jones |
October 9, 2018 |
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United Wesleyan Church in Easley, South Carolina, has successfully purchased and flipped its second house in two years to support overseas missionaries. The first house, flipped in 2016, netted $25,000 in support of local missionaries stationed in Austria. The second...
Communication Team |
October 1, 2018 |
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One October night in 2006, my wife blindsided me* with this question: “What would you think if God wanted us to be missionaries?” I had never considered that possibility before and was not ready to consider it then. “Why in the world would God want us to do that?” I...
Rachel Ashley |
October 1, 2018 |
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In 2009, when the existence of traditional, on-campus seminaries was being challenged and most seminaries in the United States were reexamining how they could continue to educate ministers, Wesley Seminary, the first seminary officially affiliated with The Wesleyan...
Cory Doiron |
October 1, 2018 |
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January 6, 2019, will mark two years that we have been gathering regularly as Church For Neighbors in Portland, Oregon. So much has happened over the last two years that it would be impossible for me to fit it into this update. However, I’d like to share a little bit...
Sophie Savage |
September 17, 2018 |
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Hurricane Florence has forced evacuations for millions of people along the coast and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands. World Hope International (WHI) is actively working with Wesleyan pastors and district superintendents across South Carolina, North...
Dave Higle |
September 17, 2018 |
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Being a pastor is widely recognized as one of the most difficult vocations in society. Every October, churches across North America pay tribute to pastors and their ministry with “Pastor Appreciation Month.” The research partnership on clergy well-being between...
Communication Team |
September 17, 2018 |
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The Wesleyan Church (TWC) 2018 statistics show 138,190 members, 235,100 in worship attendance, 30,907 conversions and 11,560 baptisms. Between 2018 and 2017, membership declined 2.0 percent, attendance declined 2.0 percent, conversions declined 3.8 percent and...
Jessica White |
September 13, 2018 |
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Rev. Keith Carroll, associate pastor at Mt. Zion Wesleyan Church in Thomasville, North Carolina, has been a minster for 38 years. In almost three decades, he has only missed one year of The Gathering, because he sees it as a time of encouragement, insight and...
Wayne Schmidt |
September 12, 2018 |
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According to today’s forecast for Hurricane Florence, 23.7 million residents of the Carolinas and Virginia are in the path of the Category 4 storm. Nearly 30,000 of those residents attend Wesleyan churches. Thanks to diligent meteorologists and the media, residents in...
Communication Team |
September 3, 2018 |
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Delegates from the East Michigan, Illinois, North Michigan and West Michigan districts met at Central Wesleyan Church in Holland, Michigan, on Friday, August 24, to complete their merger, forming the new Great Lakes District. The new district elected Rev. Chris Conrad...
Megan England |
September 3, 2018 |
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One hundred nine years. Seven antecedents. Five generations. Two denominations. One OKWU. Oklahoma Wesleyan University has a unique history — spanning a wide geographic and generational range, the result of a series of mergers between Bible colleges in California,...
Rachel Ashley |
September 3, 2018 |
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When Tom Cochran started his Master of Divinity program at Wesley Seminary in 2010, he was deep in the process of launching a church plant. New Journey Community Church in Wabash, Indiana, launched in February 2010 under the direction of Tom and his wife, Sarah, after...
