Spiritual Development Emphasizes Prayer
Too often prayer is identified as just one of several spiritual disciplines. But that is not quite accurate. While prayer involves discipline, it is in a category by itself. Prayer as intimate...
View ArticleEngaging the Culture
As followers of Christ, we won’t always fit into the world in which we live. In fact, we’ll often find ourselves going against the flow of popular culture in certain areas of life. It’s necessary for...
View ArticleDoing the Work of Christ
The Justice and Social Witness group will focus on exactly what the name says. During General Conference 2019, we will discuss ways that we witness in the world about our new life in Christ — a new...
View ArticleGlobal (and Local) Transformation
Jesus told the 11 to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:16–20). The instruction is to make disciples. The direct target, according to Jesus, is “all nations.” Imagine the overwhelming feeling...
View ArticleA Biblical Perspective on Race and Ethnicity
At General Conference 2019, I will lead a focus group exploring biblical and cultural implications of race and ethnicity. We will have honest and open dialogue and will hear from the majority as well...
View ArticleHeintzman Shares Vision for FM Communications
The new Free Methodist Church – USA communications director is an experienced communicator and spiritual leader. Brett Heintzman, an ordained elder in the Genesis Conference and associate director of...
View ArticleEvery Church Can Multiply
As individual followers of Jesus, we are called to multiply by making disciples of those around us, helping people — wherever they are in their spiritual journey — move closer and closer to Jesus...
View ArticleStewardship and Church Resources
What resources do you think you need for your church? What does God say you need as resources for your church? How do you know the difference? During three exciting roundtable discussions at General...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for Your Church?
I am looking forward to General Conference 2019 and an opportunity to be a part of our bishops’ initiative to equip the local church. I will be presenting Church Next Steps along with Mike McAvoy, the...
View ArticleWhat Children’s Ministry Is and Could Be
I was in Chicago’s Diamond Headache Clinic for two weeks as a patient for a migraine that wouldn’t go away, a result of meningitis. I had tried everything to break the pain cycle and nothing had worked...
View ArticleThe Kenney Announces New Executive Director
David Smeltzer, the chief executive officer of Heritage Ministries, has announced that John Cruz has been named the executive director of The Kenney in West Seattle, Washington. A graduate of San...
View ArticleCentral’s Business Administration Degree Ranks Third in U.S.
Central Christian College of Kansas has secured national recognition for its bachelor’s degree in business administration. An OnlineDegrees.com report ranked Central third in the nation for its...
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Reaching Back, Looking Forward: 20 Years of the African Heritage Network
Photos by Fred TenEyck Gathering pastors and lay leaders from Washington, D.C., to Long Beach, California (and many places in between), the African Heritage Network of the Free Methodist Church – USA...
View ArticleMeet the Bishop Nominees
The Free Methodist Church – USA Board of Administration, on April 6 as part of its semiannual meeting, accepted the recommendation of the Bishop Search Committee to present five nominees for bishop to...
View ArticleFruitful Free Methodists
The Free Methodist Church – USA bishops’ nine strategies include a call to “honor fruitfulness” with a commitment to “increase the number of growing and fruitful Free Methodist churches by encouraging...
View ArticleA Great Awakening in Grand Rapids
You may have seen a salvation message on TV with multiple audience members following a call to walk to the front of a church or stadium, but have you ever watched a person accept Christ during a...
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Prayer Summit Seeks Deeper Awakening
At the opening service Sunday evening for the National Prayer Summit, New Room Executive Director David Thomas reflected on great awakenings of the past and the hope for a deeper awakening in the...
View ArticleAdams, Cowart, Whitehead to Lead FMCUSA
The next three bishops of the Free Methodist Church – USA will be Linda Adams, Keith Cowart and Matt Whitehead who were elected Wednesday (July 17) by General Conference 2019 delegates in a historic...
View ArticleNew Streams in Michiana
Dwight and Julie Weber have served some of the nation’s largest Free Methodist churches such as the Spring Arbor (Michigan) FMC, First FMC in Seattle and Crossroads Community Church in southeastern...
View ArticleFM History All Decked Out
Longtime Free Methodists may note a bit of irony in the new Free Methodist Timeline card game from Just Games and the Marston Memorial Historical Center. As David L. McKenna explained in “A Future With...
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