Vicarious Joy, Actual Distress

Pastor Glen was asked to write the article for this week’s Outlook, the weekly newsletter of the Wesleyan Covenant Association. This publication reaches 19,000 subscribers worldwide! The topic is the difficult process of disaffiliation in the California-Pacific Annual Conference. You can read the article here:  Vicarious Joy, Actual Distress – Wesleyan...

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June: The Way to the Holy Spirit

By: Steve Seamands In his classic book, “The Way to Pentecost,” originally published in 1932, Samuel Chadwick, a leader in the British Methodist Church, poignantly describes, “The Church without the Spirit.” As we embark upon this new adventure called the Global Methodist Church, how crucial it is for us to...

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WCA Prayer Guide for May 2023

May: The Way to Global Methodism By Keith Boyette   Through Isaiah, God declares, “O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls; they will pray day and night, continually. Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord. Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work...

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March: The Way of Scriptural Prayer

By Terry Teykl   John Wesley said, “God will do nothing but in answer to prayer. Whether we think of, or speak to God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. Proceed...

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February Prayer Guide: The Way to Glory

By David F. Watson   The way to glory is the way of the cross. “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,” Paul writes (Phil 2:5). The mind of Christ is the pattern for the Christian life. Paul then tells us what this pattern entails...

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WCA Prayer Guide for January

January: The Way to Spiritual Unity By Carolyn Moore     “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also...

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December WCA Prayer Guide

December: The Way of Faith By Leah Hidde-Gregory This week, I went in to get my nails done. A thirty-year indulgence that my husband doesn’t quite understand. My nail tech, Carrie, explained to me that she could not do my nails next time, because she was headed back to Vietnam to see...

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November WCA Prayer Guide

November: The Way to Christian Perfection By Kevin M. Watson   John Wesley could remember a time before Methodism existed. He witnessed the beginnings of the Methodist movement, where the Holy Spirit moved in powerful, surprising, and at times, even indescribable ways. If at the end of his life, John...

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Help for Florida

Dear Family of The Fount, The following is a letter from Rev. Jay Therrell, the president of the Wesleyan Covenant Association. He is from Florida, and has a heart for the people. If you would like to help, you can follow the links in this email or give to The...

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September WCA Prayer Guide

September: The Way to Revelation 7:9 By Maxie Dunnam   The big issue in life is to settle what really matters. We have struggled with that for a long time in the United Methodist Church. It is with sadness, and through deep and abiding prayer, expansive conversation, we have concluded...

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