By Rick Wolcott* Two East Ohio Conference educators are looking forward to teaching online courses this fall through BeADisciple.com. The site, part of the United Methodist-affiliated Institute for Discipleship at Southwestern College, has more than 2,000 students participating in approximately 150 Christian education courses each year. Two of the new courses will be taught by [...]
Category: Leadership
Answering God’s Call
By Rick Wolcott* “I believe that each of you here has been called by God to be in ministry, either lay or clergy, in a deeper way,” East Ohio Conference Bishop John L. Hopkins said during opening worship of the recent candidacy summit. Forty-four people attended the two-day summit, a joint ministry of the East [...]
North American Evangelism Conference
UMC to Host First-ever North American Evangelism Conference Denominational leaders, seminary faculty and local church practitioners from the United States and Canada, who either work or teach in the field of evangelism, will convene in Nashville next month for a historic meeting to discuss how to reclaim evangelism in today’s world. “The United Methodist Church [...]
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