CMC Podcast #10: How Midsize Churches Can Multiply (with Duane Bower)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews Duane Bower
Multiplication
CMC Podcast #09: Top 3 Lessons Learned While Church Planting (with Julie Penta)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews Julia Penta
CMC Podcast #08: How to Plant an Urban Church Through a Shalom Lens (with Brian Bennett)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews Brian Bennett
CMC Podcast #07: Millennials on Mission (with Spencer Loman)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews Spencer Loman
CMC Podcast #06: How to Grow a New Church after Launch (with Kenneth Wagner)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews Kenneth Wagner
CMC Podcast #05: Can The Wesleyan Church Become a Movement? (with Wayne Schmidt)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews Wayne Schmidt
CMC Podcast #04: How to Grow Spiritually While Church Planting (with David Drury)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews David Drury
CMC Podcast #03: Dynamics in Raising Funds for a Church Plant (with John Freed)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews John Freed
CMC Podcast #02: The Life of a Multiplier (with Anita Eastlack)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews Anita Eastlack
CMC Podcast #01: How Discipleship Leads to Multiplication (with Jon Wiest)
Church Multiplication Director, Ed Love, interviews Jon Wiest
One Sunday, two firsts
After 33 years of combined pastoral and missionary service, John and Shanda Croft are starting over, entering a new mission field.
Become a Ripple Church: Why and How to Plant New Congregations
Multiply Your Ministry by Parenting New Churches Most pastors and church leaders know that a healthy church should eventually become a multiplying church. But how do you know when the time is right to parent a new church? And how do you know which of the many...
Mid-sized New York church thinks big with church planting
A mid-sized church in rural New York is doing its part to multiply churches and see lives become “made new” within The Wesleyan Church. Located between Canisteo and Hornell, New York, Buena Vista Wesleyan Church is missions-minded, both locally and...
Apostolic Multipliers: Repainting the Role of Apostle for the 21st Century
What is the first image that comes to mind when you hear the word apostle? Do you envision Jesus’ 12 original disciples or maybe the Apostle Paul? Typically, the word apostle is associated with Early Church leadership and isn’t a common description used...
Shocking News about Wesleyan Pastor Washout: Wesleyan Clergy Retention Study
Please forgive me for the sensational title but the news about Wesleyan pastoral retention is indeed shocking. If I asked you, “How many pastors washout of ministry in their first five years?”, what would you say, 30…40…50…even 60...
Being Salt: 3 Things You Should Know about Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Oklahoma Wesleyan University maintains a growing cultural influence, developing a generation of Christians ready to engage their world. To hear OKWU’s vision for 2016, we talked to Dr. Everett Piper, President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, who offered three...
Leaders Meet to Implement Ordination Outcomes
Over 130 District Superintendents, District Board of Ministerial Development members (DBMD), Religion Faculty, and non-traditional program instructors (FLAME) gathered at five regional meetings aimed at implementing best practices for developing healthy, fit, and...
How to Flourish: Faith, Work, and Economics
“It’s rare to have an opportunity to be able to help members of your congregation to inhabit their vocation as part of a Kingdom calling, much less work with other church leaders to strategize how to transform your church and community. Psalm 104 gave us...
Wesleyans lead the way at Residency Summit in Chicago
Pictured: Luke and Kyla, residents at All Shores Church in Spring Lake, Michigan. “We should have just had you Wesleyans send us all your materials and not even met” a co-host half-joked to me after the Wesleyans gave a strong presentation of our residency...
Five Surprising Ways IWU is Changing Ministry Education
In 2012, the Kern Family Foundation partnered with the Indiana Wesleyan University School of Theology and Ministry to create a program to help students be ” More hirable, better trained, and less indebted.” Admission to the Kern program is contingent on...
Lead Practitioners Explore Pastoral Residencies
Early Ministry Initiative hosts a meeting to develop resident pastor positions. Rev. Russ Gunsalus, Executive Director of The Division of Education & Clergy Development, convened more than 50 Wesleyan ministers from across the denomination the last week of...2
