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...
Marilyn Searcey |
May 4, 2020 |
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Easter during a pandemic. They don’t prepare you for what you’re to do in a pandemic in seminary — particularly a pandemic at Easter. At any other time, I would be thinking about how to craft an interactive, all-age celebration of the resurrection at our church,...
Communication Team |
April 20, 2020 |
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On May 31, Pentecost Sunday, Wesleyans are gathering online for worship and prayer for the fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit. The hour-long event begins at 7 p.m. EST. “Wesleyans are people of prayer,” said General Superintendent Wayne Schmidt. “We live and minister...
Darrell Thornton |
April 20, 2020 |
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As the detective put handcuffs on me and loaded me into his patrol car, he said, “Darrell, you are a piece of ____!” His words hit me hard as I was jailed with more than 20 felony charges: trafficking opiates, forgery, larceny by employee and obtaining property...
Tricia Rife |
April 20, 2020 |
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Easter 2020 will be remembered as the year that pastors and churches within The Wesleyan Church had to exercise extra creativity in sharing about and celebrating Jesus’ resurrection. Most churches across North America were closed April 12, 2020, due to government...
Micah Kimball |
April 20, 2020 |
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Following a string of devastating tornadoes across the Kentucky-Tennessee District, Salem Ridge Wesleyan Church (Brooksville, Kentucky) and Faith Community Wesleyan Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee) experienced near-total losses of their church buildings and belongings....
Tricia Rife |
April 6, 2020 |
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The New York City (NYC) metro area remains one of the hardest hit areas in the United States with the coronavirus, as the number of cases and deaths continue to rise. Twenty-two Wesleyan churches in the greater NYC area are offering encouragement, prayer and support...
Ethan Linder |
April 6, 2020 |
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One of our main human illusions — the idea that we have control over our lives — has evaporated in the wake of COVID-19. Fresh groundswells of vulnerability have left nearly everyone feeling newly anxious about the next outbreak, worried about loved ones and job...
Tricia Rife |
April 6, 2020 |
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Sowing seeds in Detroit amidst COVID-19 Mosaic Midtown Church is a relational-based church. With the current executive order in place that limits activity in the state of Michigan, the Detroit church is having to find other ways to connect with people during this...
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...
