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Obituaries
We pause to honor our brothers and sisters in Christ who have gone home to Glory!
Paul Korir
Paul Korir sees himself in the faces of the poor, the less fortunate and those in the minority. He grew up humbly, often going to bed hungry and not having shoes to wear until he was 16. His local church blessed him with the opportunity to attend high school, and he found Christ when he […]
Tennent Reponse
Dear brothers and sisters: I have received your open letter. I am thankful that you experienced Asbury as a place where you discovered a “passion for the truth and the mission of the church,” for this summarizes our 1923 founding motto: “the whole Bible for the whole world.” For nearly 100 years Asbury Theological Seminary […]
Bishop David Roller
At first, Bishop David Roller felt like he drew the short straw when he was assigned to lead the Recalibrate Initiative in the Free Methodist Church. Admittedly, he wanted to focus on places with obvious potential instead of the places with problems. After re-framing his outlook, he realized that resources abound in these churches. Currently, […]
Bryan Collier
Bryan and Wendy Collier planted The Orchard, a United Methodist Congregation, with their friends in mind. In 1998 when they moved to Tupelo, Miss., statistics showed that 20,000 people in the Tupelo region didn’t have a relationship with Jesus or a connection to faith. “We had lots of church-going friends, but we also had lots […]
D.Min. Program Offers Three New Cohorts!
Asbury Theological Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry Program announces three new cohorts beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year: Preaching and Leading: Shaping Prophetic Communities, link to this: http://asburyseminary.edu/academics/degrees/doctor-of-ministry/cohorts/shaping-prophetic-communities/ Activating Missional Communities, link to this: http://asburyseminary.edu/academics/degrees/doctor-of-ministry/cohorts/activating-missional-communities/ Social Justice, Ethics, and the Church, link to this: http://asburyseminary.edu/academics/degrees/doctor-of-ministry/cohorts/social-justice-ethics-church/The D.Min. Program is a leadership development and spiritual formation process […]
Obituaries
We honor our brothers and sisters in Christ who have passed on to Glory.
George Wasson
For George Wasson, Lead Pastor at Faithpoint Church, saying yes to God was more than just one moment. It was a lifetime of yeses that led him to the next right thing on his journey. He said yes to his call to ministry, yes to attend Asbury Seminary, and yes to God’s plan for his […]
Jeremiah’s Prophecy for a Better Community
by Heidi L. Lyda, Director LYN House,(2008, MA) “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: …For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future […]
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