July 11, 2023 By Rev. Jay Therrell There are four or five sermons that I’ve heard in my lifetime that I can remember almost every word. God used the preachers that shared them to speak into my life. Those words have shaped and formed who I am in Jesus and what I do for Jesus. …
July 4, 2023 By Rev. Jay Therrell About 14 months ago, I began a personal reading project. There is much I must read in my position, and I wanted something that I could pursue that was not church-related and that interested me. I am a history buff (some would probably say nerd), and one of …
By Rev. Glen Haworth June 27, 2023 I stand in awe, with great rejoicing, as I hear the good news of hundreds, even thousands of congregations gaining their freedom across the land. Just the sheer number of disaffiliating United Methodist Churches is inspiring and encouraging! But in my annual conference, the California-Pacific Annual Conference, there …
June 20, 2023 By. Rev. Jay Therrell Over May and June, the American annual conferences have their regular meetings. One of the most significant agenda items has been voting on the ratification of disaffiliating congregations. The meetings are not complete, but as of this writing, there have been 5,861 churches approved for disaffiliation. By the …
June 13, 2023 Last week’s meeting of the WCA Global Council was a bittersweet meeting for this team that provides strategic guidance and oversight to the Wesleyan Covenant Association. The Council said goodbye to the Rev. Dr. Carolyn Moore who completed her service as chairwoman of the Council. They also said farewell to the WCA’s …
By Marjana Luist June 6, 2023 Due to the split in the United Methodist Church (UMC), there is a need to create connections and find opportunities for fellowship and information sharing with European conservative Methodists. Vatroslav Župančić, pastor of the Croatian Methodist Church, decided to organize a gathering of representatives of conservative churches in Europe to …
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By Carolyn Moore May 30, 2023 On August 1, 2016, God began to do something new in global Methodism when fifty United Methodists met in Houston to pray and begin to imagine a new chapter in Methodist renewal. At that initial meeting, we didn’t yet know whether renewal meant rejuvenation of an existing system, or …
By Rev. Jay Therrell May 23, 2023 Tomorrow is May 24, 2023: Aldersgate Day. On May 24, 1738, 285 years ago, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, went “very unwillingly” to a religious meeting on Aldersgate Street in London. He wrote about what happened next in his journal: In the evening I went very unwillingly …
By Rev. Jay Therrell May 16, 2023 Since the beginning of 2023, there have been 16 special annual conference meetings where churches have been approved for disaffiliation. Thankfully, all the churches before those gatherings were approved for disaffiliation except for one in Virginia: New Town UMC in Williamsburg. We grieve deeply that New Town was …
By Rev. Jay Therrell May 9, 2023 Special Note: WCA President Jay Therrell shared the following message at the Global Legislative Assembly on May 4, 2023. The assembly was livestreamed on the WCA’s Facebook page and can be viewed there. I’ve always been a fan of Charles Dickens. I suppose much of it comes from …
