Lexa Ennis |
June 12, 2019 |
Blog Voices
Learn more About Voices Blogs “Christ’s identification with suffering becomes the hiddenness of God’s glory, and among the marginalized we experience the presence and power of God to redeem.” (Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of...
Lexa Ennis |
February 13, 2019 |
Blog Voices
Learn more About Voices Blogs Her voice shouts out prayers from the front porch of the church. She calls out, screaming for a place to sleep, for safety, for provision. Praising Jesus followed with moaning and groaning. She calls out for God to fight for her against...
Beth Churchill |
May 31, 2018 |
Featured Blog
Have you ever felt paralyzed by the injustice of this world? I have. There are days when I just want to stand up and scream with the inequality all around me. As I listen to people sharing their struggles, I often feel powerless to make a difference. It sometimes...
Tricia Rife |
February 19, 2018 |
Featured News News
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...
Ron McClung |
February 12, 2018 |
Blog Featured Blog
A friend told this story some time ago. It seems a little boy about ten years old was standing before a shoe store on Broadway, barefoot, peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the boy and said, “Say, little fellow, why are you looking...
Tricia Rife |
January 18, 2018 |
Featured News Local Church News
When Tracy Marr, student pastor at Havelock Wesleyan Church in Nova Scotia, Canada, learned of a single mom in need, he stepped into action. A single mom of two young children who attends Havelock had a dire need for firewood. Their primary source for heat is wood and...
Anita Eastlack |
January 5, 2018 |
News
A short time before Christmas, Belinda Bauman (founder of One Million Thumbprints) and Lynne Hybels (advocate for global engagement and wife of Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church) began to contact some of the “elder women” (including Dr. Jo Anne Lyon) in the...
Sophie Savage |
December 18, 2017 |
News
Relief organization responds to 2017 crises and new opportunities to alleviate global poverty and injustices It has been a challenging and active year for World Hope International (WHI). In August and September, Texas, Florida, the Caribbean and Puerto Rico were...
Mark O.Wilson |
July 31, 2017 |
Blog
One day, a rule-bound lawyer, hoping to get a checklist to prove he was good enough, approached Jesus and asked, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Luke 10) Like a wise rabbi, Jesus didn’t give an answer, but countered the question with his...
Jo Anne Lyon |
December 24, 2015 |
News
They lived across the street from us in a suburban neighborhood of split-level homes. One night we heard a knock at the door. The three children, two boys and a girl, had been kicked out of their home by their stepfather. My husband Wayne and I took them in for the...
Reid Hettich |
December 21, 2015 |
News
Mosaic is a new urban church in Aurora, Colorado (in the Denver metropolis). God has been blessing it. The need for Mosaic’s kind of ministry in Aurora is staggering. If you would like to know how you can pray for or partner with Mosaic, click here. I met...
Stacy M. Brown |
October 22, 2015 |
News
Lynda Keefer said it just wasn’t right. In fact, the co-pastor of the Stroudsburg Wesleyan Church said she knew that if she and others didn’t step up to do something to help the area homeless they would not be demonstrating the love Jesus Christ had always...
Lenny Luchetti |
September 3, 2015 |
Blog
I recently viewed the 1993 film, Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. This is only the second time I have seen the movie. Tom Hanks plays Andrew Beckett, an up and coming lawyer who for years has managed to keep his homosexuality a secret from the...
Kerry Kind |
October 29, 2014 |
News
Reflecting the heart of God, Christians at their best are known as people who take special care of orphans. It’s thrilling to see believers today still earning that reputation. More Wesleyan churches are emphasizing adoption and foster care locally as well as through...
Susan Knight |
December 18, 2013 |
News
Senior pastor Ken Murphy, staff, and attendees at Cypress Wesleyan Church in Galloway, Ohio, greeted the Christmas season of 2013 with four compassion projects this year: give gifts, give warmth, give joy, and give hope. Give gifts: Cypress Wesleyan filled and sent...
