Upon Arrival by Rob Haynes
My favorite part of any airport is the arrivals lounge. Everyone in the arrivals area seems to be full of
Rob Haynes
Lead Pastor, Christ Wesleyan Church
Educational Liaison, World Methodist Evangelism
Rob Haynes is a church-planter, pastor, author, speaker, teacher, podcast host, theologian, and missiologist. His work focuses on local and global mission and evangelism, forming disciples for missional service, leadership development in new and existing church communities, and fostering new spaces for conversations on faith and culture. Rob is a seasoned leader and continues to develop new ways of engaging in discipleship, evangelism, and mission. He is an ordained pastor in The Wesleyan Church.
Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Rob lived in both Ohio and Kentucky until moving to the Alabama Gulf Coast in 1991. He completed a BSci in education at the University of South Alabama, an MA in biblical and theological studies at the University of Mobile. After seminary training at Asbury Theological Seminary, Rob received a PhD in theology from Durham University in Durham, England. He is a senior John Wesley Fellow, senior Harry Denman Fellow, John Wesley Institute Fellow, and a visiting fellow at St. John’s College, Durham University. He also serves as the Chair of the Division of Practical Theology for the Wesleyan Theological Society. Rob’s publications include Consuming Mission: Towards a Theology of Short-Term Mission and Pilgrimage (Wipf and Stock, 2018), and “‘Come in the Right Way’: Effective Evangelism in Pluralistic Cultures” in E. Stanley Jones & Sharing the Good News in a Pluralistic Society (Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2018).
Rob’s passion is to help individuals and churches join discipleship with witness, mission with evangelism, and personal holiness with social holiness. He is a fan of reading, fishing, football, basketball, and gadgets. Rob and his wife, Beth live in Fairhope, Alabama and have adult children Joshua, and his wife Brooke, and Megan.
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Rob Haynes
Lead Pastor, Christ Wesleyan Church
Educational Liaison, World Methodist Evangelism
Rob Haynes is a church-planter, pastor, author, speaker, teacher, podcast host, theologian, and missiologist. His work focuses on local and global mission and evangelism, forming disciples for missional service, leadership development in new and existing church communities, and fostering new spaces for conversations on faith and culture. Rob is a seasoned leader and continues to develop new ways of engaging in discipleship, evangelism, and mission. He is an ordained pastor in The Wesleyan Church.
Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Rob lived in both Ohio and Kentucky until moving to the Alabama Gulf Coast in 1991. He completed a BSci in education at the University of South Alabama, an MA in biblical and theological studies at the University of Mobile. After seminary training at Asbury Theological Seminary, Rob received a PhD in theology from Durham University in Durham, England. He is a senior John Wesley Fellow, senior Harry Denman Fellow, John Wesley Institute Fellow, and a visiting fellow at St. John’s College, Durham University. He also serves as the Chair of the Division of Practical Theology for the Wesleyan Theological Society. Rob’s publications include Consuming Mission: Towards a Theology of Short-Term Mission and Pilgrimage (Wipf and Stock, 2018), and “‘Come in the Right Way’: Effective Evangelism in Pluralistic Cultures” in E. Stanley Jones & Sharing the Good News in a Pluralistic Society (Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2018).
Rob’s passion is to help individuals and churches join discipleship with witness, mission with evangelism, and personal holiness with social holiness. He is a fan of reading, fishing, football, basketball, and gadgets. Rob and his wife, Beth live in Fairhope, Alabama and have adult children Joshua, and his wife Brooke, and Megan.
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Upon Arrival by Rob Haynes
My favorite part of any airport is the arrivals lounge. Everyone in the arrivals area seems to be full of
Mutual Love Leads To Extreme Hospitality by Rob Haynes
Have you ever felt completely out of place? Have you ever been in a situation where you were in a
Discipleship Is Not A Do-It-Yourself Project by Rob Haynes
Maybe you are like me and enjoy trying Do-It-Yourself (DIY) projects. I enjoy the challenge of tackling carpentry, mechanical, or