Gabriela Garver |
July 14, 2020 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection Thriving Clergy
The hyphen: integrating the immigrant into ministry Rev. Jorge Escalante lives in Indianapolis, about 2,000 miles from his birthplace – Tijuana, Mexico. But, he’s hardly alone. Trinity Church, where he serves as a pastor, is a welcome place for immigrants, in part...
Ethan Linder |
June 30, 2020 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Thriving Clergy
When a Thrive Team (a team of laity who partner with a pastor for financial planning and investment in well-being) comes together, they typically address challenges like debt payment, fiscal responsibility, and retirement planning. But when a Thrive Team partnered...
Linda Gist |
May 26, 2020 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Thrive in 5
Contemplative Prayer: Palms Down, Palms Up During this time of Covid-19, we feel it is vitally important for pastors to continue to learn to carve out a few moments each day to simply be with God in prayer. In this edition of Thrive in 5 we are deviating from our...
Ethan Linder |
May 18, 2020 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection Thriving Clergy
As a pastor of two churches—Woods Harbour Wesleyan Church and Coastal Church (freshly planted in September 2019)—life is full for Pastor Jason Parker and his family, so health is especially important. Over the past few years, Jason and his family have partnered with...
Ethan Linder |
May 18, 2020 |
Colleges Featured News News
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,...
Linda Gist |
April 27, 2020 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Thrive in 5
From Solitude to Community to Ministry As a pastor, does your ministry flow out of regular time alone with God and authentic community with others? Or do you reach out for help in ministry only when it isn’t working and then maybe you pray? Henri Nouwen presents a...
Ethan Linder |
April 21, 2020 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection
As COVID-19 changes the landscape of public life, churches, business, families, and neighbors are coming together to find fresh ways of building community. Indiana Wesleyan’s Fusion team–tasked with facilitating the annual Fusion youth conference in Marion,...
Ethan Linder |
March 19, 2020 |
Blog COVID-19 The Church & COVID-19
As our communities scramble to respond to the novel coronavirus, churches have an opportunity to lead the way in faithful, compassionate service to the sick, needy and those at-risk. This really is a make-or-break time for churches to be load-bearing institutions in...
Ethan Linder |
March 19, 2020 |
Blog
As COVID-19 causes churches to cancel services, effective congregations in these weeks will be measured less by how many people we can gather, and more by how deeply we can send our people into our communities to (wisely, cautiously, hopefully) serve and bear the...
Jessica White |
February 7, 2020 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection Thriving Clergy
Driven by a passion to teach visual literacy to his students and his own desire to be a lifelong learner, John Rhett has discovered his calling through his position as an art professor at Houghton College. Rhett has always been interested in art, but never imagined he...
Jessica White |
December 19, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection Thriving Clergy
“Everything you do or don’t do; everything you say or don’t say sends a message–so make sure all you do or say reorients people toward Christ and not toward the world.” “I want everything that I do or say from the stage to reorient people toward Christ,” he...
Gabriela Akpaca |
December 19, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection Thriving Clergy
Three years ago, Cory Doiron moved with his wife and baby boy from Rapid Springs, South Dakota, to Portland, Oregon. Unlike many vocational moves that pastors make, this move was signing Doiron and his family up for a lifelong term, not at a certain church building or...
Gabriela Akpaca |
December 17, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection Thriving Clergy
Rev. Dan Jones shares his experience with church transitions If Rev. Dan Jones has learned one thing in 17 years of ministry, it is how to live within tension. Tension – between visions, theological views and practices – seems to come with the pastoral vocation,...
Gabriela Akpaca |
December 13, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection Thriving Clergy
It started with a 7-by-4-foot wooden table with bench seats placed in the middle of a neighborhood in Benton Harbor, Michigan, by an ordained pastor who worked at an outdoor gear shop. On summer days, girls and boys filled the benches to eat grilled hot dogs and...
Linda Gist |
December 9, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Thrive in 5
Thrive in 5 – Spiritual Do you cringe when you think of the term spiritual disciplines? Does it evoke a sense of guilt or failure when you consider that you are a pastor? The good news is that defeat is not what God intended for us. Gaining a new vision of what...
Gabriela Garver |
October 21, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection Thriving Clergy
It’s a Tuesday evening in September. Eric and Erin Crisp have carved out a few hours of spare time amid the busyness of two careers and parenting three high school boys to take a moment for themselves. What do they choose to spend it on? A lecture on spirituality. “In...
Belinda Selfridge |
October 21, 2019 |
Featured News News
The Education and Clergy Department of The Wesleyan Church rolled out the red carpet for 25 newly ordained, first appointed pastors and chaplains and pastors who have just transferred from another denomination. In a 24-hour period on October 9 and 10, pastors were...
Kim Craft |
October 9, 2019 |
SAVE THE DATE: New Pastor Orientation, October 9-10, 2019.This event will help new pastors:Become better oriented to the mission and ethos of The Wesleyan ChurchBecome aware of the ministries, resources and opportunities of the ChurchGain insights into new trends in...
Jessica White |
September 17, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development
Dean of Houghton College Online purposes to create opportunities for more students to experience Houghton Houghton College’s residential campus in upstate New York is a close-knit environment where students experience transformative learning in classrooms and in...
Gabriela Garver |
September 13, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Pastor Spouse Connection Thriving Clergy
Kiley Skor, a pastor as well as pastor’s spouse, tells the story of how she stepped into her calling Kiley Skor once considered herself “a great second and the world’s most overqualified volunteer.” As a pastor’s wife with a love for worship ministry, she thought she...
Linda Gist |
September 10, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Thrive in 5
Thrive in 5 – Spiritual Dallas Willard’s writings are among the most significant in recent years for helping us learn about the transformational process of becoming more like Christ. As pastors who are leading others, we need to be intentional about engaging the...
Ethan Linder |
September 3, 2019 |
Featured News News
“The pervasive element in our two-thousand year pastoral tradition is not someone who ‘gets things done’ but rather the person placed in the community to pay attention and call attention to ‘what is going on right now’ between men and women, with one another and with...
Joel Hunt and Dave Higle |
June 14, 2019 |
News
Wesley Seminary hosted the Wesleyan Doctrinal Symposium, May 29 – 30, 2019, at its Marion, Indiana, campus. The symposium is an annual event for Wesleyan religion faculty and other ministry leaders. It focuses on doctrinal issues related to the ongoing education and...
Linda Gist |
June 6, 2019 |
Blog Education & Clergy Development Thrive in 5
Thrive in 5 – Spiritual “What comes into our mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us … Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, ‘What comes into your mind when you think about God?’ we might predict with...
