Tricia Rife |
July 2, 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. Missouri church set to reopen after fire destroys facility Cornerstone...
Micah Kimball |
June 30, 2020 |
Featured News Local Church News
Saint John First Wesleyan Church (SJ1) in Saint John, New Brunswick, has recently launched 18:20, a house church model intended to allow congregants to worship safely together as restrictions still limit large public gatherings. Grounded in Matthew 18:20, which...
Catherine Howie |
June 30, 2020 |
COVID-19 COVID-19 News Featured News Local Church News
But God. Throughout the Bible there are passages that describe difficult situations that are redeemed with these two words. Noah spent years building the ark and months floating in it during the flood, “but God remembered Noah” (Genesis 8:1). For decades, Reuben and...
Communication Team |
June 15, 2020 |
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The Wesleyan Church will convene for General Conference June 6-9, 2021, in St. Louis, Missouri. “The General Board made the courageous decision in March to postpone General Conference 2020 in order to allow The Wesleyan Church to focus on ministry during COVID-19,”...
Debbye Turner Bell |
June 15, 2020 |
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I am new to The Wesleyan Church but not to the family of God. My family relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan, from the New York City area in 2017. Kentwood Community Church (KCC) was the first church we visited, just two days after arriving in the state. We immediately...
Micah Kimball |
June 15, 2020 |
News
“Racism is a public health issue.” Rev. Ruth Strand, who serves as the spiritual care director of Jericho Road Community Health Center in Buffalo, New York, has seen the reality of this comment in the wake of COVID-19. Ruth and her husband, Steve, also an ordained...
Kyle Gudmunson |
June 15, 2020 |
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I’m a co-pastor at Utah Valley Church (UVC), in Spanish Fork, Utah. My wife, Shanae, and I planted UVC with Matthew and Chandra Anderson in 2015. We live in Utah County, which has half a million residents. Of that half a million, less than one half of one...
Tricia Rife |
June 12, 2020 |
Local Church News
Nearly nine years after it began, regular prayer meetings at a Missouri church are still going strong, in spite of COVID-19. The Caruthersville Wesleyan Church (CWC) in Caruthersville, Missouri, began its Tuesday night prayer meeting on September 13, 2011, spurred on...
Eric Paashaus |
June 12, 2020 |
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Alive Wesleyan Church (AWC) is located in Kirkville, New York, just a few miles east of Syracuse. Our vision at AWC “is to transform real lives by the love of Jesus Christ and the power of God’s Word.” I have been on staff at AWC for 16 years, the last seven years as...
Micah Kimball |
June 12, 2020 |
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Previously named Kingswood Church in Blaine, Minnesota, Hope Church was already prepared to serve the needs of the Minneapolis suburb prior to the hit of COVID-19 through its food shelf, Hope for the Community. Led and founded by Hope Church pastor, Dr. Alan Goracke,...
Tricia Rife |
June 11, 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. Racial reconciliation and Wesleyan higher education institutions Presidents...
Wayne Schmidt |
June 1, 2020 |
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For the last three months, the world has engaged in the unescapable battle of a pandemic, together. For the last week, the United States has grieved a senseless murder grounded in years of racial injustice, together. Last night, The Wesleyan Church joined in the...
Micah Kimball |
June 1, 2020 |
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It was a big step when the small congregation, WE Church, located in Stockton, California, went to online services. With a fairly limited number of participants engaging in the online services, Pastors Bob and Jan Hughes and Pastor Jon Tomas wanted to connect with the...
David Drury |
June 1, 2020 |
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We were building a whiteboard list of favorite Bible verses in a Sunday school class. One of my friends, a stoic and stern fellow, raised his hand and recited his favorite verse ponderously: “God helps those who help themselves.” After a bit of a pause, I asked him to...
Mike Tapper |
May 31, 2020 |
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Does your church have rhythm? Sure, it does! The question is not whether your church members can clap on beat but, rather, what rhythm of worship establishes itself among you. For many of us, this rhythm is recognized by the well-planned sermon series. These...
Wayne Schmidt |
May 29, 2020 |
News Racial Reconciliation Blogs Racial Reconciliation Hub
English El proceso de duelo está constituido por un remolino de emociones: pérdida, ira, rechazo, culpa… la lista continúa. Las estoy sintiendo todas. Este dolor proviene de noticias de vidas que fueron tomadas violentamente y sin motivo. Pero, para mí, es aún...
Ammie Sullivent |
May 28, 2020 |
Local Church News
As you can imagine, trying to plant a church during the COVID-19 pandemic has produced some challenges. When the pandemic hit, we were planning community meetings and doing outreach to get the word out about Pathway Church: A Wesleyan Community in Owasso, Oklahoma....
Wayne Schmidt |
May 28, 2020 |
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Español A swirl of emotions make up the grief process: loss, anger, denial, guilt — the list goes on. I’m feeling all these. This grief comes from news of lives senselessly, violently taken. But it is even more personal than that for me. I have friends, acquaintances...
Tricia Rife |
May 28, 2020 |
Local Church News
A North Carolina pastor has gotten creative in how he leads church on Sunday mornings — from the fire escape at his church. Rev. Cameron Dockery of Robbins Wesleyan Church in Robbins, North Carolina, knew when the COVID-19 pandemic hit that his small church, with an...
Tricia Rife |
May 28, 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. Jo Anne Lyon featured in NAE podcast Dr. Jo Anne Lyon, General Superintendent...
Tricia Rife |
May 28, 2020 |
COVID-19 News
Good is still happening in the midst of the COVID-19 chaos in Emporia, Kansas. Julia Pyle attends Lamont Wesleyan Church, located in rural Lamont, and serves as chief nursing and operating officer for an Emporia hospital. While rural Kansas has not been hit hard with...
Jo Anne Lyon |
May 28, 2020 |
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A few weeks ago, I was on a call with Bishop Tendero, secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance. He was discussing briefly what is happening around the world with COVID-19. His first words struck me, “In the Philippines, our mega churches have turned their...
Tricia Rife |
May 18, 2020 |
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Children and youth pastors across the U.S. have gotten creative in connecting with kids and teens in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Next Gen pastors in the Northwest District saw the need for helping foster those connections in a digital fashion and got to work....
Micah Kimball |
May 18, 2020 |
COVID-19 Featured News News
What started as a nasty case of pneumonia in early February turned into a nearly seven-week hospital stay and near brink-of-death conditions for Sweetser Elementary teacher David Henry. Henry, who was admitted to Marion General Hospital on March 26, was quickly...
