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...
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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...
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,”...
Debbye Turner Bell |
June 15, 2020 |
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I am new to The Wesleyan Church but not to the family of God. My family relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan, from the New York City area in 2017. Kentwood Community Church (KCC) was the first church we visited, just two days after arriving in the state. We immediately...
Kyle Gudmunson |
June 15, 2020 |
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I’m a co-pastor at Utah Valley Church (UVC), in Spanish Fork, Utah. My wife, Shanae, and I planted UVC with Matthew and Chandra Anderson in 2015. We live in Utah County, which has half a million residents. Of that half a million, less than one half of one...
Eric Paashaus |
June 12, 2020 |
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Alive Wesleyan Church (AWC) is located in Kirkville, New York, just a few miles east of Syracuse. Our vision at AWC “is to transform real lives by the love of Jesus Christ and the power of God’s Word.” I have been on staff at AWC for 16 years, the last seven years as...
Micah Kimball |
June 12, 2020 |
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Previously named Kingswood Church in Blaine, Minnesota, Hope Church was already prepared to serve the needs of the Minneapolis suburb prior to the hit of COVID-19 through its food shelf, Hope for the Community. Led and founded by Hope Church pastor, Dr. Alan Goracke,...
Wayne Schmidt |
June 1, 2020 |
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For the last three months, the world has engaged in the unescapable battle of a pandemic, together. For the last week, the United States has grieved a senseless murder grounded in years of racial injustice, together. Last night, The Wesleyan Church joined in the...
Micah Kimball |
June 1, 2020 |
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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...
David Drury |
June 1, 2020 |
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We were building a whiteboard list of favorite Bible verses in a Sunday school class. One of my friends, a stoic and stern fellow, raised his hand and recited his favorite verse ponderously: “God helps those who help themselves.” After a bit of a pause, I asked him to...
Mike Tapper |
May 31, 2020 |
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Does your church have rhythm? Sure, it does! The question is not whether your church members can clap on beat but, rather, what rhythm of worship establishes itself among you. For many of us, this rhythm is recognized by the well-planned sermon series. These...
Wayne Schmidt |
May 28, 2020 |
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Español 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. But it is even more personal than that for me. I have friends, acquaintances...
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 |
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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...
Mike Oliver |
May 4, 2020 |
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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...
