Written by Jervis Djokoto Over the past two weeks, we have gathered for our Minister’s Conferences in the West and the East. Our theme was “Empowered,” and together we focused on how God empowers us to live and minister faithfully. The core framing statement for our theme was something like
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Equipped To Pray One of the most valuable things a church can offer is people who know how to pray with others in a way that’s healthy, biblical, and truly impactful. Training for this kind of prayerful presence is what’s being offered this fall at Chapel Ridge Free Methodist Church
Rekindling Our Thirst For God Before Free Methodism became a denomination, it was a movement—one marked less by structure and more by a deep hunger for God. A recent article from Seedbed Ministries, Methodism as an Awakening Movement, traces that hunger back to its source, and it’s well worth our
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Something Is Stirring For this edition of Church Health Thursday, we’re pointing you to a resource that’s well worth watching: Awakening in the UK, a video from Watermark Community Church exploring the surprising spiritual movement taking shape across Britain. Something is stirring! For decades, the story of the UK church
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A Call to Faithfulness Adapted from a message by Jervis Djokoto, Senior Director of Church Health, Free Methodist Church in Canada Imagine your weekly Bible study or prayer gathering meeting as usual. Then someone shares the invitation online, and instead of a dozen people, 3,000 arrive at your door. What
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Seth Freeman has served in pastoral ministry with the Free Methodist Church in Canada since 2011. He has been serving at Hampton Free Methodist Church since 2020. He also serves as the regional coach for Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Seth loves the prairies and has a heart for churches serving in the rural and
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Vern Frudd has served the Free Methodist Church in Canada as a pastor for 40 years. As he stepped into retirement, he continued to serve in new ways. For the past eight years, he has been the Regional Coach for BC, Alberta, and Northwest Ontario. In this role, he has
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On his blog, The Exhange, Ed Stetzer recently posted “5 Reasons Established Churches Should Plant Churhes.” This is a discussion that churches need to be having even though it may be a challenging one – in a good way! This Health Church Thursday is for you Jared! Click here
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I am hoping Thom Rainer’s book, Autopsy of a Deceased Church, is a helpful resource. Some of the blog posts that came out of the research for that book sure have been good. This may be the summer of Rainer here at Church Health Thursday. Click here to read Thom
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This week I am sharing a blog from one of my favorite authors – Margaret Feinberg. Here is a sample: “You’ve seen the ads. A photo of a pot-bellied, hairy man who looks unhappy is posed next to the same man, newly shaved, tanned with ripped abs and a toned
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