Kate Lyons |
January 17, 2019 |
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On January 10, Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University and Kingswood University signed an articulation agreement providing multiple pathways for Kingswood students to complete their graduate theological education at Wesley Seminary. Dr. Abson Joseph, dean of...
Santes Beatty |
January 7, 2019 |
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Years ago, when I served as a college administrator I had the privilege of meeting Linda Brown Thompson. If her name is not familiar, maybe a major court case on May 17, 1954, “Brown vs. Board of Education,” will help with identification. The National Association for...
Tricia Rife |
January 7, 2019 |
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Congregants and church leaders at Moncton Wesleyan Church in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, wanted to bless an area homeless shelter and they did just that right before Christmas. In the span of several Sundays in December, the church raised $109,000 to give to...
Ron McClung |
January 3, 2019 |
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Dr. Thomas E. Phillippe, 89, former General Secretary of Extension and Evangelism for The Wesleyan Church, died on December 22, 2018, in San Antonio, Texas. He was preceded in death by his wife, Dr. Joan Phillippe, in March 2017. Dr. Phillippe was elected General...
Tricia Rife |
December 17, 2018 |
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When Jacky walked by the International Place of Friendship in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in October 2017, he noticed the sign for free English classes. The Chinese student who attends the University of Manitoba, soon realized that those who were teaching him English were...
Communication Team |
December 17, 2018 |
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“We hope to use coffee as a way to create a presence in the heart of North Carolina’s third largest city and one of the largest college towns in the southeast United States,” said Pastor Spencer Loman, United City senior pastor. United City Greensboro (UCG), a...
Wayne Schmidt |
December 3, 2018 |
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Wesleyan leaders are pursuing creative missional work with the purpose of reaching those who are missing from Christ and his church. More and more are taking discipleship and multiplication seriously. New leaders, lay and clergy, have felt called to initiate and guide...
Matthew Tietje |
December 3, 2018 |
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Years ago I was given a little black box containing four volumes of sermon outlines written by Charles Spurgeon, pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle and considered by many to be the Prince of Preachers. In his opening remarks, he notes that he was often asked,...
Alan Miller |
December 3, 2018 |
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A vision that began to evolve 100 years ago as Marion College laid a firm foundation for what would become Indiana Wesleyan University. Marion College had humble beginnings. When the Indiana Conference of The Wesleyan Methodist Church agreed in 1919 to purchase...
Ed Love |
December 3, 2018 |
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Church multiplication is becoming more normal in The Wesleyan Church (TWC). All kinds of churches, big and small, urban and rural, are taking up the mantle of multiplying believers, leaders and churches. The motivation for this multiplication movement is clearly...
Sheila Lovell |
November 29, 2018 |
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Asbury Theological Seminary offers congratulations to Alfred Kalembo, recently chosen as the Seminary’s Distinguished Alumnus 2018. Kalembo, 57, was born in a remote village in Zambia to parents who were never able to attend school. He walked four miles, barefoot, to...
Communication Team |
November 29, 2018 |
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Championing the past while engaging current and future needs has been the goal of leaders revisioning Hephzibah Ministries, Inc. Plans have become more formalized in the past few months about how and where Hephzibah will continue to serve vulnerable children. “God’s...
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...
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...
