Keith Nash | May 21, 2018 |
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“When is it OK to put me first?” This was the question presented to my wife, Saundra, and me in a recent conversation. Our response? Our lives are not our own to do with as we wish. We were meant for a much bigger purpose than accumulating things and simply enjoying...
Tricia Rife | May 21, 2018 |
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On Easter Sunday, churches across North America and throughout the world celebrated Christ’s resurrection. The Wesleyan Church also celebrated its ability to be a transforming presence through the launching of new churches, like the stories below. Faith Legacy Church...
Tricia Rife | May 21, 2018 |
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For 13 years, men, women and children at Hyde Wesleyan Church in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, have included a small, yet impactful, form of worship in their Sunday morning service. The “Penny March Offering” occurs every week and is a highlight for all in attendance....
Communication Team | May 21, 2018 |
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In an ever-changing culture, the importance of receiving a Christian education is vitally important. The Wesleyan Church offers higher education at five colleges and universities and one seminary. Each institution offers an education on undergraduate and graduate...
Tricia Rife | May 17, 2018 |
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A group of Canadian Next Gen ministry leaders in the Atlantic District of The Wesleyan Church meets regularly for networking, growth, learning and encouragement. These Next Gen leaders in the greater Halifax, Nova Scotia, area meet on a quarterly basis in what they...
Tricia Rife | May 7, 2018 |
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Rev. Ken Klein was weary of “playing church on Sunday” at Christ Wesleyan Church (CWC) in Greensboro, North Carolina. He loved his church and its people. But he felt like their purpose in ministry had faded. One morning, he stood in front of the congregation and said,...
Janelle Vernon | May 7, 2018 |
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“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light” (1 Peter 2:9). This was the Scripture selected for the 137th General Board...
Tricia Rife | May 7, 2018 |
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Madelyn Martinez’s path to settling in Garden City, Kansas, reads like a movie script. Born in Cuba, her dad applied for his family to leave the country and relocate to the United States when she was an infant. Instead, he was forced to quit his job and sent to a...
Kate Lyons | April 16, 2018 |
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Prayers of consecration are always holy moments, but this one was a rare moment indeed, especially for Dr. Colleen Derr. Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University took its first steps into the future under the new leadership of Derr on Wednesday, April 4, where...
Communication Team | April 16, 2018 |
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An interim leadership team will lead the South Carolina District of The Wesleyan Church beginning July 7, following the retirement of District Superintendent Buddy Rampey. According to the statement from the South Carolina District Board of Administration, “Last fall,...
Dave Higle | April 16, 2018 |
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After six years of bi-vocational ministry in North Carolina, Dustin and Hannah Wilson sensed God moving their family to live differently. “God called us into a new season, a season where we felt the need to focus on family Sabbath,” Dustin said. Overworked and not...
Ashley Lawson | April 12, 2018 |
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My husband and I were pregnant with our first baby, and on June 6, 2017, we were going to our 20-week ultrasound appointment. My little bump was starting to show. I felt so much happiness and excitement in expectation of what we would find out. I went to work that day...
Matthew Tietje | April 2, 2018 |
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This summer we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the merger of two denominations into one. In 1968, the Wesleyan Methodist and Pilgrim Holiness churches united to form The Wesleyan Church, a denomination that I’ve known since birth. As a child, it seemed nothing...
Tricia Rife | April 2, 2018 |
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The spiritual landscape in rural Kansas is changing, thanks to a seasoned Wesleyan church and the new one it recently planted. In 2017, congregants at Lamont Wesleyan Church (LWC) voted to plant their satellite location (established in 2013) in New Strawn, Kansas....
Tricia Rife | April 2, 2018 |
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Red Cedar Church (RCC) in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, saw the need to expand its campus in another part of the state. So the church in northwest Wisconsin started a campus about an hour south in Eau Claire. The city was a perfect place in which to expand. Home to University...
Aaron Wilkinson | April 1, 2018 |
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Wesley Seminary is proud to announce the installation of its first president, Rev. Colleen Derr, Ed.D. Dr. Derr succeeds Dr. Jo Anne Lyon, General Superintendent Emeritus, who served Wesley Seminary in an interim role, and Dr. Wayne Schmidt, current General...
Santes Beatty | March 29, 2018 |
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The phrase “standing on the shoulders of giants” draws its meaning from several sources including Bernard of Chartres, Isaac Newton and an African proverb. In each case it expresses the meaning of “discovering truth by building on previous discoveries.” So much of...
Brian Bennett | March 19, 2018 |
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Ten years ago, a church of six people was planted in the Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan, area. Today, Overflow Church is a flourishing, multi-cultural church that has birthed many ministers and ministries. Overflow Church began through a clear calling to “seek...
Communication Team | March 19, 2018 |
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Immigrant Connection has 18 offices within The Wesleyan Church (TWC) with eight more locations actively engaged in the application process. The newest Immigrant Connection offices in Spartanburg, South Carolina (extension site), Carney’s Point, New Jersey, and Wesley...
Communication Team | March 19, 2018 |
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An initiative formed to promote the role of women in ministry within The Wesleyan Church has a new home—and a new name. The Center for Women in Ministry established 10 years ago is now known as the Sacred Alliance. The initiative was birthed at Southern Wesleyan...
Joshua McNall | March 19, 2018 |
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Raw spinach. That was the item my two-year-old son picked up the other night at dinner and began to wave about with frantic glee: “Hosanna!” he shouted repeatedly. Like any self-respecting parent, I caught the act of random holiness on video and posted it to social...
Ashley Witkowski | March 15, 2018 |
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The Indiana Wesleyan University men’s basketball team captured the 2018 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Division II National Championship on Tuesday, March 13, with an 84-71 victory over University of Saint Francis (Indiana). The red banner...
Communication Team | March 5, 2018 |
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More than 400 Wesleyans attended Exponential East last week focusing on discipleship and church multiplication. Attendance seven years ago totaled 40. The conference theme was “Hero maker” and for four days in Orlando attendees were called to be leaders who multiply...
Ron McClung | March 5, 2018 |
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Rev. Linus Justin is a third-generation leader in The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Western India, as The Wesleyan Church is known in that part of the world. He is serving as district superintendent for the Gujarat District, which includes 20 churches and six places of...
