Jessica White |
July 23, 2018 |
Blog
People in helping professions are often surrounded by others, but when healthy friendships are not fostered, it can be easy to get caught in a trap of isolation. Co-Director of Worship Arts at College Wesleyan, Jordan Rife sees fostering healthy frie
Jessica White |
July 13, 2018 |
Blog
About two years ago, Southside Fellowship Church in Owensboro, Kentucky, started to explore the idea of doing church differently. The call to examine the structure of the church came from their pastor, Rev. John Fowler, who had experienced a personal
Gaby Garver |
May 9, 2018 |
Blog
Abby Powell realized she wasn’t the typical Oklahoma Wesleyan student one day in an intercultural studies class, when asked to fill out a 10-question quiz about emotional “baggage” she carried. Each question answered “yes” indicated some wound or negative experience...
Elyse Gaverick |
May 7, 2018 |
Blog Vision
Whether in an office at Houghton College or a board room at Fillmore Wesleyan Church, Dr. Marcus Dean lives a life in service to the local church. Dr. Marcus Dean’s life has been spent in two worlds that don’t always play nicely with one another – the academy and the...
Bob Haymond |
April 24, 2018 |
Thrive in 5 Education & Clergy Development Thriving Clergy Blog
One of the hardest things for some pastors to think about is preparing for retirement. There are so many aspects to think about, it can boggle the mind. Yet, it is one of the most important life events many of us will ever experience from both a personal and...
Gaby Garver |
April 24, 2018 |
Blog
Jordan Rife has long recognized her passion to work with people, but she hadn’t been looking for her niche where she found it: in the local church, as a worship leader. Growing up in a church that didn’t affirm women as ordained pastors, Rife didn’t imagine she’d soon...
Dave Higle |
April 10, 2018 |
Thrive in 5 Education & Clergy Development Thriving Clergy Blog
As Wesleyan pastors, we all know the scriptural truth that loving God and loving others is the central hallmark of the Christian spiritual life. But do we truly embrace this as the ultimate outcome of what it means to be Spirit-filled? As David Benner states,...
Jessica White |
March 5, 2018 |
Education & Clergy Development Collegiate & Student Blog
“I like to say God brought me to Kingswood ‘kicking and screaming,’” MacCullum said. It was never Caleb MacCullum’s intent to attend Kingswood University, but when God opened the opportunity for his attendance, MacCullum decided to enroll. He had marked Kingswood off...
Gaby Garver |
February 26, 2018 |
Blog
For Houghton theology professor Dr. Richard Eckley, teaching and practice go hand in hand. In nearly 30 years as a full-time professor, Eckley has increasingly engaged in settings where applied theology doesn’t always yield textbook answers. From local church to inner...
Jessica White |
February 12, 2018 |
Education & Clergy Development Blog
Dr. Michael Jordan was not raised in The Wesleyan Church, but now considers himself a “proud Wesleyan convert.” As Dean of the Chapel and Chair of the Religion Department at Houghton College, his desire is to be a positive representative of the Church for his...
Gaby Garver |
January 31, 2018 |
Blog
Hope Guptill is in her fourth year at Kingswood University, but that’s not where she learned the most about ministry. As a pastor’s kid, Guptill has experienced the joys—and the heavy burdens—of leading the Church, motivating her to commit to supporting those in...
Elyse Garverick |
January 31, 2018 |
Education & Clergy Development Blog
Most of us would love nothing more than for life to move in a straight line on the map — no speed bumps, sharp turns or second-guessing. But Katie Betts could tell you that our journeys don’t always traverse the path so straightforwardly. A talented musician,...
Dave Higle |
January 25, 2018 |
Education & Clergy Development Blog
Luciano Latouche grew up in Leogane, Haiti. From the age of three, he was in the Compassion International Program, a child advocacy ministry partnered with The Wesleyan Church in Haiti. Latouche grew up in the Church and became a believer at a young age. When his...
Gaby Garver |
January 22, 2018 |
Collegiate & Student Education & Clergy Development Blog
Twins Cori and Leah Glendenning grew up at Orchard Park Wesleyan Church in Western New York, where their dad served as senior pastor. Through life lessons at home and shenanigans in youth group, Leah and Cori developed a deep appreciation for their upbringing’s way of...
Gaby Garver |
January 18, 2018 |
Collegiate & Student Education & Clergy Development Blog
In her third year at Kingswood University, Tatyana Russell-Chipp has learned social holiness, and the call to become a servant first. “Like taking a fish out of the tank and putting it in the ocean” After being adopted from Birobidzhan, Russia as an infant, Tatyana...
Gaby Garver |
January 18, 2018 |
Blog
The Ransom Church is a nine-year-old church plant situated in the heart of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a rapidly-expanding city of 174,000. As their name suggests, this congregation has at its heart the mission of setting the captives free, not only with the truth of...
Jessica White |
January 8, 2018 |
News
Project leaders and representatives from grant recipients of Lilly Endowment’s Economic Challenges Facing Pastoral Leader’s (ECFPL) initiative gathered from Nov. 27 through Nov. 29. While there, attendees addressed financial issues clergy often encounter and networked...
Jessica White |
December 7, 2017 |
Collegiate & Student Education & Clergy Development Blog
Dr. Clarence “Bud” Bence has served within the Wesleyan denomination for most of his life. He first pastored a church in Rochester, New York where many of his congregants would comment on his ability to “teach” the Word rather than “preach” it. From there he was led...
Gaby Garver |
December 7, 2017 |
Education & Clergy Development Blog
We wanted to hear and honor the wisdom of Wesleyans serving across the country. So, we asked 10 pastors from 10 different states the same five questions. Here are some of their answers: What’s the biggest challenge and/or opportunity for growth the church is facing...
Gaby Garver |
December 6, 2017 |
Education & Clergy Development Blog
Seeing Kami Mauldin’s passion for ministry, you might assume she’s a pastor. But instead, she’s a lay leader in her church congregation, with a vision that each member of the body has a unique and serious calling to ministry. “Sometimes I really feel like a weird...
Jessica White |
December 6, 2017 |
Education & Clergy Development Blog
As the first woman to be ordained in Russia in The Wesleyan Church and the first in her family to accept the good news of the gospel, Rev. Larisa Levicheva-Joseph is no stranger to braving uncharted waters. “Everything happens in God’s timing. Going through a time of...
Gaby Garver |
November 29, 2017 |
Education & Clergy Development Blog
A 2008 alumnus of Asbury Theological Seminary, Karen Bates is a minister-of-all-trades. After a career as a newspaper editor, Karen pursued a call to full-time ministry, serving the church as an assistant pastor, ministry coach and communications facilitator. How did...
Gaby Garver |
November 20, 2017 |
Blog
Pastors Steve and Ruth Strand have served The Wesleyan Church in all corners of the Western Hemisphere for 30 years. Their latest mission field reaches the world in a single city: Buffalo, NY. Buffalo has one of the highest poverty rates in the U.S., and is also the...
Emily Hines |
November 20, 2017 |
News
Collective collegiate collaboration brought the five presidents and board chairs of the Wesleyan college and universities together on Monday, November 13 at The Wesleyan Church World Headquarters, Fishers, Indiana, for this year’s convening of the Wesleyan Education...
