Evangelism

Homogenous no more, a community United Methodist Church responds.

While there is no boilerplate model that works for all, this one evangelism point is universal.

How can you be the best church for your community?

How a newly appointed agency staffperson (no longer serving as a pastor in a local church) found a new church home.

A fundamental question facing churches today is how to develop Christian character among current and new members of the congregation. For author Lionel Moriah, the answer to this question is a matter of discipline—The Thirteenth Discipline, to be exact.

If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?  --James 2:16, NRSV

In his book Spiritual Waypoints, Whitesel highlights key markers or waypoints located at strategic points of one’s journey toward and with Jesus Christ. Whitesel points out the advantage of using waypoints while journeying to a destination. 

Rev. Heather Heinzman Lear, an ordained elder in the North Carolina Annual Conference, will join the General Board of Discipleship staff as Director of Evangelism Ministries on Jan. 1, according to MaryJane Pierce Norton, Associate General Secretary of Leadership Ministries at GBOD.