Wayne Schmidt |
March 20, 2020 |
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My Wesleyan Church family, This week has been for me, as it probably has been for you, a balancing act between challenge and calm. Every day, I’m interacting with brothers and sisters in Christ and am so thankful for the fruit of the Spirit abundantly evident in this...
Communication Team |
March 12, 2020 |
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Due to the elevated Center for Disease Control coronavirus warnings, churches and faith-based organizations are urged to heighten their monitoring of and responses to the spread of the virus. The Wesleyan Church (TWC) encourages all members to implement personal and...
Heather Hill |
March 6, 2020 |
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World Hope International (WHI), a relief and development organization affiliated with The Wesleyan Church, is preparing for response to the global outbreak of the coronavirus. In addition to addressing easily preventable illnesses, WHI tackles the prevention and...
Micah Kimball |
March 2, 2020 |
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Songwriting, worship and discipleship have long been indoctrinated into the minds and work of Wesleyans, something credited largely to the intentional songwriting and teaching practices of John and Charles Wesley. In the preface to The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal:...
Micah Kimball |
March 2, 2020 |
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In the wake of an ever-growing gospel gap, heightened social and personal anxieties, and deep national and global divides, one man, his daughter and their team are working to inspire change in one of the nation’s most vulnerable battlefields: public schools. Jeff...
Jennifer Jones |
February 26, 2020 |
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In the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota, where pride in self-reliance and distrust of organized religion run deeper than veins of gypsum, a modern/western take on the traditional church service is bringing a community together. Using a horse barn and arena to...
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...
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...
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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On March 20th, 2020, the General Board voted to postpone General Conference. Visit our conference homepage for up-to-date information. Our approach to managing our money, the traits we prize in others, our way of handling conflict, our weekend calendars: all these...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Communication Team |
December 2, 2019 |
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Members of Sarah Rodriguez’s youth group are set to attend their first Follow Youth Conference this December in Cincinnati, Ohio, and they couldn’t be more excited. At present, eight of the 15 youth group teens are scheduled to attend. This will also be the first...
