Summit Launches Prayer Movement
Greenville, Illinois, isn’t normally a spring break destination, but 175 people from 22 states met there March 19–21. They were surrounded by farmland rather than beaches, but they came to seek...
View ArticleMusical Diversity to Unite GC15 in Worship
Free Methodists from around the world will join in song July 13–16 during General Conference 2015, and they will have a worship team reflecting the conference’s “Whole Church” theme. Dawn Salmons, a...
View ArticleWinona Lake Celebrates Past While Moving Forward
Established in the 1930s in the homes of Free Methodist Publishing House personnel, the Winona Lake (Indiana) Free Methodist Church has a long and significant history in the Wabash Conference and in...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriage
The Free Methodist Church – USA Board of Bishops issued the following statement June 26: The Supreme Court of the United States published today its rulings on whether states may ban same-sex marriages...
View ArticleFree Methodism’s Rebirth In The Gateway City
St. Louis played an important role in the birth of Free Methodism. Denominational founder B.T. Roberts traveled to St. Louis in 1859 to meet a group of 150 people who left the Methodist Episcopal...
View ArticlePhyllis Sortor Named Woman of Quadrennium
When abducted in Nigeria Feb. 23 and released March 6, Free Methodist missionary Phyllis Sortor received international news coverage. That dramatic experience, however, was not the reason Women’s...
View ArticleICCM Celebrates 50 Years of Helping Children
More than 600 people from 24 nations attended International Child Care Ministries’ Jubilee Celebration during General Conference 2015. “We’ve calculated that we’ve sponsored about 100,000 kids in these...
View ArticleGC15 Mission Teams Bless and Serve
Several days before General Conference 2015 officially began, 300 people met for training in Orlando and then traveled to serve God and others in central Florida, Miami, Costa Rica, Haiti and the...
View ArticleBrothers Embrace Gospel Music Roots
A lot has changed for Brothers McClurg in the three years since Light + Life first covered this worship band from upstate New York. Several touring members have changed. The band has switched from...
View ArticleStarting Strong’s New Start
The annual Starting Strong event attracts new pastors to the World Ministries Center in Indianapolis each year, but a format change this year attracted a larger group of emerging leaders who embraced...
View ArticleFree Methodist, Wesleyan Scholars Unite for GSTS
Many of the top graduate students and theology professors from two Wesleyan Holiness denominations, the Free Methodist Church – USA and the Wesleyan Church, met Sept. 18–19 at the Free Methodist World...
View ArticleDiscipling ‘Well, Well, Well’
A year ago at Christmastime, Yvonne Roller committed herself to share biblical principles and important life lessons with families. She remembered meeting Free Methodist elder, musician and puppeteer...
View ArticleA Solid Centennial
More than 100 years ago, M.D. Hammack and the Rev. T.A. Smith started Free Methodist home meetings in the Mississippi River community of Madison, Illinois, near St. Louis. These meetings led to a...
View ArticleDonald E. Demaray | 1926–2015
Leading Free Methodist elder, author and seminary professor Donald E. Demaray died Oct. 31 at age 88 after being diagnosed Sept. 10 with a recurrence of pancreatic cancer. A funeral service was held...
View Article‘Ordaining Women’ for a New Generation
Free Methodist founder B.T. Roberts made his case for female pastors in his 1891 book “Ordaining Women,” but women could not become Free Methodist elders until General Conference 1974 delegates...
View ArticleBurundi Bishop Thanks FMCUSA
Dear Bishop David Kendall and the Free Methodist Church – USA, Greetings in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! On behalf of the Free Methodist Church in Burundi in general and...
View ArticleCreation Celebration 2016
Since the beginning of human history, people have been creating in groups — first in families and then in villages and societies. One of my favorite things to do is to watch creativity unfold [in...
View ArticleLive Arts Contest to Honor Young Artists
Calling all young artists! The Live Arts Contest is open to cinematic, visual, literary and performance artists in high school (public, private or home school) and college. The Scriblerus, Greenville...
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Converge 2:14 to Discuss Church Unity, Diversity
“Never discuss religion or politics in polite company” goes the old saying. Whoever came up with that maxim could have added race to the list of taboos. All three topics are fertile ground for harsh...
View ArticleStumble Along With Laurie Yost
Author Laurie Yost isn’t afraid to poke fun at herself in her book debut, “Stumbling Along.” The first chapter begins: “When people ask me to describe myself, one of the words that never gets left out...
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