Wesleyan Accent Archive | World Methodist Evangelism

How Your Local Church Can Engage Immigrants: Interview with Rev. Zach Szmara

Zach Szmara June 26, 2017

Recently Wesleyan Accent Editor Elizabeth Glass Turner chatted with Rev. Zach Szmara, the founder of one of the first immigration legal clinics within a church building, about sanctuary, immigration law, and cross-cultural ministry at home. Rev. Szmara is the Lead Pastor of The Bridge in Logansport, Indiana, a congregation within The Wesleyan Church. He is the National Director of Immigrant Connection – a growing

Nothing Sacred: Sacrilege In The Public Square by Elizabeth Glass Turner

elizabeth.turner June 22, 2017

It’s happened again and again. Do they give out “Webby Awards” for“Best Social Networking Campaign Aimed at Disenfranchised Young Men Searching for Meaning and Manhood in a Post-Religious Context”? In the 90’s, radicalization looked like bored, angry, white, oddball suburban teenagers shooting up their classmates as they latched onto whatever Nihilistic philosophy made sense of their bullied, middle-class ennui. Now

The Difference Between Evangelism and Conversion by Kim Reisman

Kim Reisman June 21, 2017

It is better to stop worrying about the results of our evangelizing and instead worry about whether we have truly made the gospel known in our relationships with others.

Your Cross to Bear by Kim Reisman

Kim Reisman June 21, 2017

Deep and authentic faith is meaningful; but can be costly, challenging, even frightening.

What to Do with Your Shortcomings by Kim Reisman

Kim Reisman June 19, 2017

If you reflect on your spiritual walk, how do Peter’s various responses to Jesus resonate with your experience?

A Better Place (Part 2) by Cole Bodkin

Cole Bodkin June 19, 2017

What is the better place? As seen in the last post, the three most popular sketches of the Christian “better place”—heaven-centered, human-centered, and world-centered—have been various soteriological attempts to depict both our hope and mission. (Soteriology, as you may remember, refers in theology to the theology of salvation.) However, as John C. Nugent argues in his book Endangered Gospel: How Fixing the World

Christian Community: Why I Can’t Give Up on Church by James Petticrew

James Petticrew June 15, 2017

There are some things that I know I should believe with my head, but I struggle because I don’t experience them in my heart.

Let Your Longings Work for You by Carolyn Moore

Carolyn Moore June 14, 2017

Go to the Limits of Your Longing -Rainer Maria Rilke God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows

The Risk of Following Closely by Kim Reisman

Kim Reisman June 14, 2017

Yet, for our faith to be real, for it to be authentic, we must risk moving out of the shadows. So the question is, how close to the fire will we get?

The Value Of Godly Grief by Andy Stoddard

Andy Stoddard June 12, 2017

Have you ever felt really badly about something you’ve done wrong?  Have you ever in some way harmed another person or harmed your walk with God?  Have you ever done something that you just know you should not have done, and then you realize it.  And wow.  You feel terrible.  You just feel awful.  You want to make it right.

Methodist Church of Sierra Leone

World Methodist Evangelism October 30, 2026

official website Members 0 K+ Congregations 0 + Here’s a story most people in the West have never heard. In 1792, nearly 1,200 people boarded ships bound for West Africa. Many of them were born into slavery in the American colonies, and settled in Nova Scotia. They escaped and sided with the British during the American War of Independence, because

God’s Message to Missionaries and Immigrants by Luiz Cardoso

Joseph Seger October 29, 2026

Jeremiah 29 and the Blueprint for Cross-Cultural Ministry In the 29th chapter of Jeremiah, the prophet pens an infamous letter to a people living in exile. Many are quick to rush to verse 11 for God’s plans, but verses 4-7 offer first a blueprint on how to be a faithful person in a foreign land. There is instruction on how

Iglesia Metodista de Puerto Rico

World Methodist Evangelism October 26, 2026

official website Members 0 K+ Congregations 0 + Methodism first took root in Puerto Rico back in 1900 when Rev. Charles W. Dress held the island’s first Methodist service in Old San Juan. That congregation, La Santísima Trinidad, is still open and still serving its neighborhood. For nearly a century, the church operated under the umbrella of American Methodism, and

Agape Without Hypocrisy

James Petticrew October 16, 2026

In 1314, wounded English knights fled south through Scotland towards the safety of the English border after their cataclysmic defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn. Overcome by weakness and pain, some fell from their horses. Many were left to die, but more compassionate locals took others to the abbeys dotted throughout the Scottish borders. These abbeys had infirmaries and monks

Waiting To Live

Maxie Dunnam October 13, 2026

It is true that most of us spend our lives waiting to live. We see today as such a mundane time, so insignificant, so unexciting. But once we change our focus and begin to encounter the events of today with vitality and purpose, all sorts of changes take place. This is especially true in our personal relationships. The people we

A New Door Opens for Filipino United Methodist Ministers in Australia

Rob Simpson October 6, 2026

An exciting partnership between two denominations within the wider Wesleyan Methodist family is opening doors for Filipino pastors to continue their calling in Australia. On 16 August 2026, Rev. Dr. Lex Akers, National Superintendent of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia, and retired Bishop Rodolfo A. Juan, representing the United Methodist Church in the Philippines, signed a Memorandum of Understanding

Christian Discipleship In The Age of AI

Larry Frank September 24, 2026

Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in a plenary panel on the future of theological education. One of the questions put to us was about artificial intelligence and the role it may increasingly play in ministry: sermon preparation, program development, communication, congregational engagement, and more. My answer was fairly straightforward. AI is not a fringe issue anymore, and no

Being Our Whole Self

Maxie Dunnam September 15, 2026

I don’t know when it actually began. Maybe in that little church in rural Mississippi when a country preacher sounded a note that called for a response from a fourteen-year-old boy in the congregation. The package was too neatly wrapped and tied then. The walk down the aisle, the public profession of faith, and the baptism did not bring the

The Methodist Church of Southern Africa

World Methodist Evangelism September 11, 2026

In 1816, a missionary’s refusal to stop preaching grew into a church that shaped Nelson Mandela’s education and is now led, back to back, by two women bishops. That stubborn act of obedience became the seed of what’s now one of the largest Christian movements on the African continent.

The Fire Triangle of Faith: Three Elements That Fuel Evangelism

Josh Orndorff September 11, 2026

Movement. It is a word that I hear often when it comes to living our faith. I coach in an organization that desires movement. The theme of my Annual Conference this summer was movement. Our mission at World Methodist Evangelism is to “help leaders build faith-sharing movements.” As people who believe in the movement of the Holy Spirit witnessed at

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