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...
Laurie Jennings | March 5, 2018 |
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As a pastor’s kid in The Wesleyan Church, I remember when our missions focus included the 10/40 Window: the band of latitude 10 degrees south and 40 degrees north which wraps around the equator. The band encompassed North Africa, the Middle East and Central and...
Communication Team | March 1, 2018 |
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Thursday, March 8th, The Wesleyan Church will partner with World Hope International to celebrate International Women’s Day. We want you to join us by sharing how you empower the women and girls in your life. World Hope International has provided a toolkit to...
Communication Team | February 28, 2018 |
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After 29 years of faithful service with Global Partners, the missions arm of The Wesleyan Church, Jarvis and Sue Ferguson sense God moving them in another direction. As a young girl, God put in Sue’s heart the dream to serve him as a missionary nurse. God clearly...
Ron McClung | February 28, 2018 |
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We all learned this week of Billy Graham’s transfer to heaven at the age of 99. What an extraordinary life! He preached the gospel to more people than any other Protestant minister in history – an estimated 2.2 billion. Millions responded by surrendering their lives...
Communication Team | February 19, 2018 |
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More than 320+ youth and kids’ workers (clergy and lay) across North America gathered to seek God, refuel their souls and discover how they are #bettertogether at the annual Fuel Conference. The event was held in early February in Fishers, Indiana. Fuel has...
Tricia Rife | February 19, 2018 |
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Preliminary steps have been taken to merge the Northeast District and the Penn-Jersey District of The Wesleyan Church. The Northeast district conference approved the merger on February 10, 2018, by a vote of 95-10 and the Penn-Jersey district conference approved the...
Tricia Rife | February 19, 2018 |
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A handful of Wesleyan churches across the country joined in the annual Night to Shine (NTS), sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation. According to the foundation, “Night to Shine is an unforgettable prom night experience, centered on God’s love, for people with special...
Corri Roberts | February 8, 2018 |
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I lost my son, Gregory, on August 25, 2015, to an overdose. He was 26 years old, an Army veteran and the most loving and kindest person who always put others ahead of himself. The night I learned of my son’s death, I got very angry with God and screamed and cried and...
