A Message from our General Superintendent

There are certain priorities and pursuits that matter and last. They start in the heart of God and through focused prayer capture the heart of The Wesleyan Church. We are commissioned and empowered to be a disciple-making movement (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8) in multiplying locations. This calls for Kingdom risks, an entrepreneurism of eternal consequence. We celebrate every time a disciple makes a disciple and a congregation’s spiritual fervor boils over so intensely the church multiplies itself. There must be a variety of models (requiring a variety of gifts and callings) in that multiplication because the church was not meant to stay put. We will celebrate these things until our people are bringing a transforming presence into communities scattered across the mission field of North America and to the ends of the earth. Healthy churches reproduce. It is in their DNA to take new territory. This will require “all hands on deck” – engaging laity as well as clergy, the full giftedness of women in leadership, a range of generations and multiple ethnicities. I unapologetically challenge you to join me in giving yourself to the spread of the Church… for the glory of God. Dr. Wayne Schmidt General Superintendent