Megan England |
October 18, 2018 |
Colleges Featured News News
Dr. Everett Piper has announced his retirement as president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University. He announced the news at the OKWU Board of Trustees meeting on October 11. Retirement will take effect in June 2020. “Oklahoma Wesleyan University owes Dr. Piper a huge debt...
Tricia Rife |
October 15, 2018 |
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The winds, rains and waves of Hurricane Florence are long-gone from the United States’ East Coast, but the emotional and financial aftermath of the storm remains. It’s been one month since Florence plummeted the eastern United States on September 14. Much of the...
Ed Welch |
October 15, 2018 |
Colleges Featured News News
In February 1904, Dr. L.G. Clayton, Rev. Eber Teter and Charles Smith were part of a group of about 20 leaders who met on the brow of a hill for a prayer meeting. Clayton was a family physician to the small town of Central, South Carolina, a community that got its...
Ron McClung |
October 15, 2018 |
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Morley, New York, is so far upstate it is only 20 miles from the Canadian border. It is geographically closer to Ottawa and Montreal, Canada, than it is to Albany, the state capital. Yet it is here in the north country of the Empire State that one of the first...
Ron McClung |
October 13, 2018 |
Featured News News Remembered
Dr. Melvin E. Dieter, 93, former General Secretary of Educational Institutions for The Wesleyan Church, died on October 6, 2018, in Lyndhurst, Va. His wife of more than 72 years, Hallie Arline Kirtz Dieter, died the following day. In 1968, when the merging General...
Santes Beatty |
October 12, 2018 |
News
In early October, over 50 Wesleyans and 350 gathered in Rochester, New York, on the campus of Roberts Wesleyan College and Northeastern Seminary for the first Call and Response Conference. The conference purpose was to call together laity, marketplace and nonprofit...
Megan England |
October 11, 2018 |
Colleges News
Dr. Stephen Babby is this year’s recipient of the Oklahoma Wesleyan University (OKWU) President’s Award. He is being recognized for his voice of wisdom and biblical faithfulness on the OKWU board, which he has served on for 41 years. Ordained by The Wesleyan Church in...
Tricia Rife |
October 11, 2018 |
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. Brooksville residents receive training to care for dementia patients...
Andrew Maves |
October 10, 2018 |
News
What does a little country church and one of the largest motorcycle events in Canada have in common? You couldn’t have one without the other. Digby Wesleyan Church in Digby, Nova Scotia, has been a part of the Wharf Rat Rally from the start and, 14 years later, is...
Communication Team |
October 10, 2018 |
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In early October, over 250 Wesleyan pastors and lay leaders from around the Midwest gathered for a sold-out Disciple Making Conference at Trinity Church in Indianapolis. The conference was designed to inspire and equip pastors and lay leaders to build disciple-making...
Jennifer Jones |
October 9, 2018 |
Featured News News
United Wesleyan Church (UMC) in Easley, South Carolina, has successfully purchased and flipped its second house in two years to support overseas missionaries. The first house, flipped in 2016, netted $25,000 in support of local missionaries stationed in Austria. The...
Tricia Rife |
October 1, 2018 |
News
On September 15, Typhoon Mangkhut hit the Philippines with the strength similar to that of a category 5 hurricane. World Hope International (WHI), the relief and development partner of The Wesleyan Church, has been working alongside local Wesleyan churches in the...
Communication Team |
October 1, 2018 |
Featured News News
One October night in 2006, my wife blindsided me* with this question: “What would you think if God wanted us to be missionaries?” I had never considered that possibility before and was not ready to consider it then. “Why in the world would God want us to do that?” I...
Rachel Ashley |
October 1, 2018 |
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In 2009, when the existence of traditional, on-campus seminaries was being challenged and most seminaries in the United States were reexamining how they could continue to educate ministers, Wesley Seminary, the first seminary officially affiliated with The Wesleyan...
Cory Doiron |
October 1, 2018 |
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January 6, 2019, will mark two years that we have been gathering regularly as Church For Neighbors in Portland, Oregon. So much has happened over the last two years that it would be impossible for me to fit it into this update. However, I’d like to share a little bit...
Rachel Ashley |
September 28, 2018 |
News
Dr. Miranda Cruz has been named the director of The Sacred Alliance at Wesley Seminary. She began her role at the organization on September 15, 2018. After the position recently became available, Dr. Colleen Derr, president of Wesley Seminary, and Dr. Abson Joseph,...
Luska Natali |
September 27, 2018 |
News
Summer vacations have come to an end and high school students all over the country are back to their regular activities. One activity that is often overlooked is scheduling a time to go on a campus visit at colleges. A campus visit is one of the best ways to sense...
Sophie Savage |
September 17, 2018 |
Featured News News
Hurricane Florence has forced evacuations for millions of people along the coast and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands. World Hope International (WHI) is actively working with Wesleyan pastors and district superintendents across South Carolina, North...
Dave Higle |
September 17, 2018 |
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Being a pastor is widely recognized as one of the most difficult vocations in society. Every October, churches across North America pay tribute to pastors and their ministry with “Pastor Appreciation Month.” The research partnership on clergy well-being between...
Communication Team |
September 17, 2018 |
Featured News News
The Wesleyan Church (TWC) 2018 statistics show 138,190 members, 235,100 in worship attendance, 30,907 conversions and 11,560 baptisms. Between 2018 and 2017, membership declined 2.0 percent, attendance declined 2.0 percent, conversions declined 3.8 percent and...
Carla Working |
September 14, 2018 |
Colleges News
Dr. Colleen Derr, president of Wesley Seminary, extends an invitation to join the faculty and students of Wesley Seminary for a special event featuring Dr. Richard Foster and Nathan Foster at College Wesleyan Church in Marion, Indiana, on Wednesday, September 26, from...
Jessica White |
September 13, 2018 |
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Rev. Keith Carroll, associate pastor at Mt. Zion Wesleyan Church in Thomasville, North Carolina, has been a minster for 38 years. In almost three decades, he has only missed one year of The Gathering, because he sees it as a time of encouragement, insight and...
Tricia Rife |
September 13, 2018 |
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. Indiana church’s partnership is helping change community The partnership...
Ron McClung |
September 12, 2018 |
News
The Wesleyan Holiness Church of the Caribbean convened its quadrennial General Conference in Bridgetown, Barbados, on August 8-13, 2018. Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Schmidt and Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Jackson attended, representing the North American General Conference of The...
