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Connected or Independent: Why I Hope Churches Will Choose the Global Methodist Church Over Being Independent

by Jay Therrell September 20, 2022 As more and more churches are disaffiliating and breaking free from The United Methodist Church, the next question that faces them is: what do we do now? Do we align with the Global Methodist Church? Do we choose to go independent? Or something else? It’s a good and right …

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Why Pray? Join the WCA’s International Intercessory Prayer Network

by Rev. Dale Shunk September 13, 2022 For more than two years the WCA International Intercessory Prayer Network (IIPN) has prayed and fasted by Zoom every Monday at 9:00 PM under the capable leadership of the Rev. Leo Park and like “midwives” we helped birth the Global Methodist Church on May 1, 2022.  Leo has …

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Holy Boldness

by Jay Therrell August 30, 2022 Last year I started a reading project that will no doubt take me a while to complete. I’m attempting to read a major biography of all 45 U.S. presidents. Currently, I’m on John Quincy Adams, which means I’ve completed books on all five of the “Founding Fathers” who became …

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No More!

No More! by The Rev. Dr. Warren Lathem August 24, 2022 The words were shocking. Did I read that correctly? Was the Wesleyan Covenant Association actually saying, “immediately begin withholding all apportionments and escrow them.” Was such a drastic call merited? Could such a thing happen? Reading the entire article, “Let Our People Go!” revealed …

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Let Our People Go!

by Jay Therrell August 12.2022 After decades of conflict on a variety of theological issues within The United Methodist Church, hope appeared for an amicable separation in January 2020 with the announcement of the Protocol of Reconciliation and Grace Through Separation. The Protocol represented a mediated settlement between theological conservatives, centrists, and progressives to end …

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Making a Way

By Jay Therrell 8/2/2022 Right after my election as president of the Wesleyan Covenant Association, the Holy Spirit very clearly began prompting me to pray a four-word prayer: Lord, make a way! It was one of those moments when the presence of the Holy Spirit was clear and palpable. Since that time, I have found …

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