Houghton College Designated Pro Tools Sponsored College

Aug. 26, 2010

Recognizing that music continues to evolve as technology develops, Houghton College, one of five colleges and universities of The Wesleyan Church, has stepped to the forefront of digital application through designation as a Pro Tools-sponsored college. Music students and communication majors at the Houghton, New York, college will simultaneously benefit from Pro Tools through specific video applications.

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New SWU Students Assist in Community

Aug. 25, 2010

Ethan Bourne (pictured) of Denton, N.C., pruned shrubs at Central History Museum one day before the start of classes at Southern Wesleyan University. He was one of the freshman and transfer students at the Central, South Carolina University that volunteered to serve in the community.

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Wesleyan Colleges and Universities Rated Among the Best

Aug. 25, 2010

Wesleyan colleges and universities rank among the finest of America’s best higher education institutions.

Noted publications such as U. S. News and World Report, Forbes, and Princeton Review recognized four Wesleyan colleges and universities located in the United States.

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Wesleyan Church Provides Filmmaking Seminar to D.C. Students

Aug. 24, 2010

Beth Fussner, former missionary to Indonesia and New Zealand and founder of Inside|Out,has brought the youth-oriented filmmaking workshops to Washington, D. C. The United Wesleyan Church in Alexandria, pastored by Beth’s husband, Rev. Jeff Fussner, sponsored the first Inside|Out Metro D.C., week-long digital filmmaking workshop, August 1-7.

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NAE, World Relief Sponsor Forum on Immigration

Aug. 23, 2010

The National Association of Evangelicals and World Relief will sponsor an Evangelical Leaders Forum on Immigration, Friday, September 24, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will be held at The Wesleyan Church World Headquarters, 13300 Olio Road, Fishers, Indiana, 46037. Organizers say the forum will be a time in which “leaders can learn about immigration from a biblical perspective and will have the opportunity to ask tough questions.”

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OKWU Achieves Many “Firsts”

Aug. 22, 2010

According to President Everett Piper, the 2010-2011 school year at Oklahoma Wesleyan University is just beginning, and already the university has achieved a number of “firsts.”

The Bartlesville, Okla., campus has the largest new student enrollment in its history with 226.

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Christie Reelected General Superintendent in Caribbean

Aug. 20, 2010

Rev. Carlston Christie was reelected to serve a four-year term as General Superintendent of the Caribbean General Conference of The Wesleyan Church. The theme “Committed to Leadership, Growing Churches” fit the atmosphere, as delegates to the second quadrennial General Conference met in Antigua, August 13-15. The opening ceremony of the conference included a parade of flags; prayer and the ministry of the Word; and an address by the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honorable Dr. W. Baldwin Spencer.

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Houghton Art Gallery Announces Exhibit

Aug. 20, 2010

The Ortlip Gallery at Houghton College has an established tradition of presenting a diverse range of innovative exhibitions and educational programs that offer insight into the work of established and emerging regional, national, and international artists and designers. The first exhibit of the 2010-2011 season features the work of artists Ben Zion and Marc Chagall on display through September 4, 2010.

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Philippine Wesleyan Leader Dies

Aug. 19, 2010

Dr. Saturnino P. Garcia (78), former General Superintendent of the Philippine Wesleyan Church, died Wednesday, August 18, 2010. Ordained to the Wesleyan ministry in 1963, he was a pastor and district superintendent, who was elected General Superintendent in 1975. Upon his retirement in 1989, he became director of “2000 by 2000,” traveling to all Wesleyan mission fields to assist in reaching the goal of 2000 Wesleyan churches in world mission countries by the year 2000.

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Two Clean Hearts

Aug. 19, 2010

The elderly woman lay in a hospital bed, waiting for heart surgery and wondering if she’d make it to see another day. Diagnosed with congestive heart failure, the woman in Bridgeport, Illinois, was told she would need a triple bypass surgery.

As she struggled with possible physical death, her relatives wondered if spiritual death was imminent too. She had visited Bridgeport Wesleyan Church about 30 years ago and had eaten at some church dinners since–but had never attended services with her husband and grandkids.

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