by Katie Ehle | Feb 19, 2025 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
Expect big changes to the Free Methodist Church USA in the coming years. These changes are needed to unleash missional momentum so the church can become a movement again, the FMCUSA Board of Bishops explained in a conversation with Brett Heintzman on a recent episode...
by Brandon Branigan, Pastor of Hope Springs Community Church | Feb 12, 2025 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
What do you do when you’re actively walking in what God called you to do, and His still small voice disrupts what you thought was His way for this calling? That is the question myself and a few key leaders wrestled with two and a half years ago. At that point, we had...
by Chaplain Captain Andy Baird | Nov 13, 2024 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
A patient is in their hospital bed. Their family is around. The machines have all been turned off. A soul is about to pass from this world to the next. A senior military leader is about to make a decision that will determine if the mission succeeds and if the leader’s...
by Jeff Finley | Oct 16, 2024 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
Nearly 300 churches applied this year for a Kingdom Advancing Grant, which the Brotherhood Mutual Foundation awards to church programs that impact their communities and spread the gospel in unconventional and creative ways. When the foundation recently announced the...
by Supt. Joanna DeWolf | Sep 16, 2024 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
I have a love-hate relationship with cooking. It’s so much easier to make an order and wait for someone else to cook it up and serve me, because cooking takes time, work, and practice. Raising up Spirit-fueled leaders is the same way. It is so much easier to tell...
by Rev. Dr. Jill Richardson and Rev. Dr. Denise Abston | Aug 21, 2024 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
Editor’s note: Free Methodist delegates at the 1974 General Conference unanimously approved a resolution “giving women equal status with men in the ministry of the church.” Bishop Elmer Parsons subsequently ordained Pennsylvania Pastor Jean Parry as the denomination’s...
by Jeff Finley | Jan 25, 2024 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
Advocates for Women in Leadership (AWL) recently invited four male Free Methodist elders to share their perspectives during an online discussion. New Beginnings Community Church Senior Pastor Jeffery Harrold, Free Methodist Church in Southern California Superintendent...
by Jeff Finley | Sep 25, 2023 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
If you suspect a member of your church is being abused by a family member, how do you respond? What if someone comes to you for counseling and asks whether it’s OK to leave a violent spouse? What if you’re counseling someone who has escaped domestic violence but is...
by Bishop Emeritus David W. Kendall | Sep 20, 2022 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
Questions Raised by the Story How A Narrative Catechism Could Help Us By Bishop Emeritus David W. Kendall The church today is filled with people who do not know the Scriptures. Even though they claim to believe the Bible is God’s Word, pastors and...
by Rev. Dr. Benjamin Sigman | Oct 21, 2021 | Pastors and Leaders Newsletter
This has been one of the most confusing seasons in our lived history. Take a pandemic; mix in a bunch of weird political stuff; add a few racial inciting events; and call it 2020-21. To refer to the last 18 months as a challenge, would be a huge understatement....
