Tricia Rife |
May 14, 2020 |
COVID-19 COVID-19 News Local Church News
When someone from the community needed a funeral for a recently deceased family member in the midst of current COVID-19 restrictions, she approached Rev. George Larue of Faith Wesleyan Church in Salem, Virginia, for help. Larue has been hosting drive-in services on...
Tricia Rife |
May 14, 2020 |
News Wesleyans in the News
Each week, Wesleyans and Wesleyan churches are featured in online news publications. If you see a news item that relates to Wesleyans, please forward the link to communications@wesleyan.org. OKWU plans to re-open in fall Students at Oklahoma Wesleyan University can...
Melody Smith |
May 14, 2020 |
COVID-19 Local Church News The Church & COVID-19
I am privileged to pastor The Gathering, a church in Parkersburg, West Virginia, (formerly Homeland Community Wesleyan Church), located along the West Virginia-Ohio border. I’ve only been serving there since the summer of 2019, but in that short time I’ve seen God do...
Mike Oliver |
May 4, 2020 |
COVID-19 Featured News Local Church News
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 |
Featured News Global News
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 |
Featured News Local Church News
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,...
Tricia Rife |
April 30, 2020 |
Colleges Local Church News Wesleyans in the News
Each week, Wesleyans and Wesleyan churches are featured in online news publications. If you see a news item that relates to Wesleyans, please forward the link to communications@wesleyan.org. Minnesota church extending kindness through bingo Waite Park Wesleyan Church...
Jason Donelle |
April 29, 2020 |
Colleges News
Kingswood University announced a new agreement with the Canada Atlantic District of the Church of the Nazarene (COTN). The agreement allows Nazarene students who are enrolled in Kingswood’s Bachelor of Arts in Ministry degrees to meet all academic requirements for...
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 |
COVID-19 News Featured News Local Church News
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 |
Featured News News
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....
Communications Team |
April 19, 2020 |
Local Church News
Encounter Church in Commercial Point, Ohio, is only one year old and already impacting its community, even in the midst of the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Located about 20 miles south of Columbus, Commercial Point is surrounded by an area that is experiencing great...
Ben Ward |
April 17, 2020 |
Global News
Do you remember what you were doing January 17, just three months ago? Were you planning for what would happen if a global pandemic swept across the world, infecting millions and impacting the livelihood of billions? It is amazing how much life has changed in such a...
Jennifer Jones |
April 16, 2020 |
Local Church News
Although South Carolina has not issued a “shelter in place” order for the COVID-19 virus, that’s what many residents found themselves doing as tornadoes cut a swath from Seneca in the “upstate” to Summerville in the “low country” early April 13. While parts of Seneca...
Micah Kimball |
April 16, 2020 |
News Wesleyans in the News
Each week, Wesleyans and Wesleyan churches are featured in online news publications. If you see a news item that relates to Wesleyans, please forward the link to communications@wesleyan.org. Woman plays piano in church destroyed by tornado Faith Community Wesleyan...
Mark Eckart |
April 15, 2020 |
News
English Wesleyan Church (EWC), under the leadership of Dr. Roger Dillman, averages about 40 to 50 people a week. But for the last couple of years, by the providence of God and the help of several people, they have touched their community with compassion, love and...
Haynesley Griffith |
April 14, 2020 |
News
Two thousand men and teenage boys gathered in Barbados on March 1 at the ManUp: Every Man a Winner event to be challenged in their faith and relationship with Jesus. This event was historic, being the largest number of men ever at a ministry gathering in...
Communication Team |
April 8, 2020 |
COVID-19 News The Church & COVID-19
Wesleyan churches are thinking outside the box when it comes to ministering during the COVID-19 crisis. Here are some ways that churches in the Pacific Southwest District are communicating the gospel as Easter approaches. New Hope Community Church (Escondido,...
Tricia Rife |
April 6, 2020 |
COVID-19 Featured News Local Church News The Church & COVID-19
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 |
COVID-19 Featured News Local Church News The Church & COVID-19
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...
Heather Bandy and Heather Hill |
April 3, 2020 |
COVID-19 News The Church & COVID-19
It’s probably safe to say that most of us haven’t lived through a global pandemic. The times we are in are new to us all. We are navigating through the unknown together. It’s very easy at the moment to be paralyzed by fear. The news is constantly...
