• "Doing Evangelism" Takes Relationships, UMs Say
  A few years ago, Bishop Dick Wills (Nashville Area) started a new morning routine. He would ride his Harley to the local Starbucks, grab a cup of coffee and sit down with his Bible and journal. And what did he call this? Evangelism.

• "It Will Preach: Charles Wesley on Evangelism"
by Douglas Powe (from Sept-Oct. 2006 Circuit Rider) — in pdf format
  

• The Best Church Advertising and Promotion
  There are many promotion methods, and we've all used most of them over the years; but there is one method that is far and away the best of them all.

• The Preaching Should Be All Through the Worship
  The Rev. Safiyah Fosua, Director of Invitational Preaching for The General Board of Discipleship, led a session on invitational preaching for the record crowd of more than 600 church leaders gathered for the School of Congregational Development in San Diego.

• Are the Chronicles of Narnia an Evangelistic Text? (RealAudio Lecture by CS Lewis scholar, John Bowen)
  

• Lecture: "Reading the Bible in the Global South"
  

• Singer, Scholar Receive Top Evangelism Award
  Bill Mann and the Rev. George E. Morris are this year's Philip Award winners, chosen by the National Association of United Methodist Evangelists.

• Pastors, Lay People Learn Practical Approaches to Evangelism
  More than 950 people, including United Methodists from the Philippines and Norway, came to learn how they can "Let the Good News Roll" at the 2006 Congress on Evangelism, held January 3-6.

• Evangelism That Works! Christ Church Adopts Hispanic Congregation
  The North Indiana Conference has a number of churches providing worship space for Spanish-speaking congregations; but few, if any, have resulted in a joint adoption, as in Christ Church's case.

• Podcast - "An Unshakable Hope For Your Journey"
  

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• Practice The Basics
  "An athlete who engages in the discipline of baseball becomes a baseball player. A person who commits his or her life to the discipline of following Jesus Christ in the world becomes a Christian disciple."

• The Evangelistic Impact of Heritage Sunday
  Heritage Sunday provides a grand opportunity for all Wesleyan communions to remember and reclaim their evangelistic heritage.

• Caring Evangelism
  In the wake of the tsunamis that caused such devastation, questions arise. What can I do? What can we do? When an overwhelming tragedy occurs half a world away, what type of response can individuals and churches offer?

• Back to Basics
  (from Covenant Discipleship Quarterly: October 1985)
The task of discipleship calls for the binding together of those with like mind and purpose to watch over one another in love. . . . This is plain Christian common sense. It is also the essence of Methodism.

• The Faith-Sharing Congregation
  

• Serving the Homeless by Sharing a Meal
  As Christians, we are often caught up in thinking that serving others means giving from one side of the counter.

• The Church Is on Fire!
  What are the marks of a church "on fire"?

• Equal Access Guide (pdf) for Meetings, Conferences, Large Assemblies, and Worship (from the Committee On Disabilities, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA)
  

• The Call to Commitment
  (from Covenant Discipleship Quarterly: October 1985)
In our churches today, there are those who, like the early Methodists, have been called to discipleship. Their task, no less than their eighteenth century forebears, is to feed Christ's flock ...

• Music Musing #13: August 16, 2004
If You Only Build It, They May Not Come: Challenges to Finding a Church
  

• Making Disciples, Transforming the World
(with Prayer of Confession)
  United Methodists have learned well the language of the church's mission: "To make disciples of Jesus Christ." We are beginning to understand that disciples are not made by accident, but through an intentional process of formation.

• Fifty Characteristics of Disciple-Making Congregations
  "What are the characteristics or activities of a local United Methodist congregation that is actively and successfully engaged in making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world?"

• Welcoming the Other
  Think about life in your congregation at present. What are you doing (or can you do) to welcome "the other"?

• To Share Jesus, Remember 3:16
  The best tool we have to share about faith in Jesus Christ is the Bible. But when we want to talk about Jesus where do we start?

• Becoming Disciple-Making Faith Communities is a Key to Future Growth
  A dramatic change is taking place in our church. Churches and annual conferences are discovering that the most effective way to bring new people into an encounter with Jesus is to create disciple-making faith communities that speak in the heart language and ...

• How Is Jesus Christ Calling the Church to Form Disciples in This Digital Culture and Context?
  

• A Shift of Church-Shaking Proportions
  Within the next three to five years, the most significant paradigm shift of this new young millennium will occur. For the first time ever, those of us born after 1946 (Boomers and beyond) will make up the majority of church members, church attenders, and church leaders.

• The Way of the Pilgrim 2001
  Amid hurried good-byes, Scott wagged his thumb and little finger at me and said, "You know. If you want to tell church leaders something important, tell them this: 'Stop trying to turn us into Christians and help us be like Christ instead.'" With that, he scooped up his backpack and was gone.