Ron McClung |
December 2, 2019 |
14th General Conference Featured News GC20 News & Updates General Conference News
Rev. Jose Pacheco, campus pastor with Central Wesleyan Church in Holland, Michigan, attended his first meeting of the General Board of The Wesleyan Church as it convened its 140th session on November 19-20, 2019, at the denominational headquarters in Fishers, Indiana....
Communication Team |
December 2, 2019 |
Featured News News
Members of Sarah Rodriguez’s youth group are set to attend their first Follow Youth Conference this December in Cincinnati, Ohio, and they couldn’t be more excited. At present, eight of the 15 youth group teens are scheduled to attend. This will also be the first...
Communication Team |
December 2, 2019 |
Featured News News
Nestled near the Choptank River in rural Caroline County, Maryland, are two Wesleyan churches that saw the benefit of coming together for greater impact for God’s kingdom. Goldsboro Bethel Wesleyan, located in Goldsboro and led by Rev. Doug Morley for 22 years, was...
Communication Team |
November 30, 2019 |
News
The turnaround of Wesleyan Publishing House (WPH) from operating at a deficit in the previous quadrennium to ending Fiscal Year 2019 with a surplus was celebrated by the General Board during its November meeting. The positive financial margin positions WPH to maximize...
Tricia Rife |
November 28, 2019 |
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. South Dakota church buys local building Lifespring Wesleyan Church in...
Micah Kimball |
November 4, 2019 |
Featured News News
From David to the apostles, God has been empowering and leading young people for generations to bring glory to his name and transform the lives of those around them — but his work in and through young people didn’t end in biblical times. Across the United States,...
Bernie Haddad |
November 4, 2019 |
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“People are always asking me how I ended up like this, in prison. I was smart when I went to school. I knew a lot of the answers. But school learning wasn’t something I could worry too much about when I was growing up,” said Bryan*, as we sat inside the prison chapel...
Kent Stroud |
November 4, 2019 |
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“Hi, I’m Zach. I just got out of jail yesterday. I want you to know that I’ll be the first one to graduate from The Potter’s House.” He was speaking at the 2018 grand opening of The Potter’s House, a new recovery ministry for men with addiction located in Jennings...
Jodi Lewis |
November 4, 2019 |
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A special relationship has formed between Hephzibah62:4 and the Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia. The sale of the former Hephzibah property on Zebulon Road in Macon, Georgia, had become necessary to retain the organization’s assets and enable the ministry of Hephzibah...
Ben and Anngie Ubelaker |
October 31, 2019 |
News
Both Anngie and I started our lives in families that believed in God. I grew up in the Catholic Church and attended a Catholic elementary school. Our family attended mass every week. During those younger years, I thought I had a good foundation of the Lord. All my...
Tricia Rife |
October 31, 2019 |
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. Illinois family’s two sons both diagnosed with cancer The Gerber family from...
Jodi Lewis |
October 21, 2019 |
Featured News News
Rev. Nick Emery and his wife, Melanie, have long been advocates for vulnerable children, both having served as Court Appointed Special Advocate volunteers, foster parents and eventually becoming the proud parents of three siblings through foster care adoption. Emery...
Belinda Selfridge |
October 21, 2019 |
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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...
Kedrick Nettleton |
October 21, 2019 |
Colleges Featured News News
Dr. Jim Dunn has been inaugurated as the sixth president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU) since the university’s founding. Equally full of humor and gravity, the ceremony, held October 11, was a poignant celebration of new beginnings for the university. The...
Tricia Rife |
October 17, 2019 |
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. Florida Wesleyan assists in Bahamas, post hurricane Jen Hansard, who attends...
Tricia Rife |
October 7, 2019 |
Featured News News
On Sunday, September 8, four Wesleyan churches launched in various parts of the United States. Awaken City Church (Boston, Massachusetts) C4 of the Carolinas (Greensboro, North Carolina) RESONATE Wesleyan Church (Texas City, Texas) ONE Church (La Mesa, California) The...
Peg Biswell |
October 7, 2019 |
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The most rural church in the Northwest District of The Wesleyan Church began as a tent. Before World War I, no church building existed in the Medicine Rocks, Montana, area. The area’s schoolhouse located in the town of Baker is where Sunday services and Sunday school...
Sarah Linder |
October 7, 2019 |
News
The greatest pastoral needs often arise during transitions or trauma, when people are most likely to consider matters of life and death. As spiritual questions arise, chaplains are available to help people sift through their pain, process questions about God and...
Tricia Rife |
October 3, 2019 |
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. Building of South Dakota church begins Construction for Black Hills Cowboy...
Brittany Jolly |
October 3, 2019 |
News
As a pastor in Charleston, South Carolina, I always look for ways to serve those in need. My personal goal is to bring hope, healing and health to those locally and globally. So when Dr. Wayne Otto, lead pastor at Providence Wesleyan Church in Summerville, South...
Communication Team |
October 2, 2019 |
News
A series of diversity events for students, business leaders and faith leaders was led by Operation Transformation, a Bluewater, Michigan, area church cooperative on September 19–21. Three workshops allowed community leaders to gather to discuss and identify ways to...
Ron McClung |
September 16, 2019 |
Featured News News
Statistics for the 2018-2019 Conference Year are official. They reveal that 17.8 percent of Wesleyans are actively involved in making disciples. For the first time this year, pastors were asked to report on the number of persons who are making disciples. They...
Micah Kimball |
September 16, 2019 |
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Devastation clouds over the remains of the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, with telephone poles and wires lying sprawled across streets, empty concrete slabs where homes once stood and debris littering lawns, roads and what remains of homes. Patrick Styers,...
Communication Team |
September 16, 2019 |
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Exponential, LifeWay Research and Outreach magazine have identified the top 100 reproducing churches in 2019. Nine Wesleyan churches were included and are listed below in alphabetical order: Celebrate Community Church, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Keith Loy, pastor Epic...
