As regular subscribers will know, IMA very rarely addresses political matters. The primary focus of this weekly e-newsletter is to share reports from around the Atlantic District. However, you are strongly encouraged to pray for our Members of Parliament as they vote today in an attempt to address the nation-wide controversy surrounding the Canada Summer […]
Bradford Rogers preached an excellent holiness message yesterday during the three services at Deep Water (AJ Thomas). The growth this church family has experienced this year has opened the door for CR Director Shaun MacKenzie to come on staff part time and for the church to hire two new staff positions (Discipleship & Children’s Ministry). […]
Jay & Sharon Guptill (Hillside) attended Exponential East this week in Orlando at a sold out conference of more than 5000 Kingdom leaders. Jay reports, “What an amazing time connecting with over 400 Wesleyans (pictured above) at Exponential to be inspired to be Apostolic Multipliers. May God pour out His Spirit to help the Wesleyan denomination […]
Nearly 25 gathered for the second annual 48-hour “Retreat to Advance” at Beulah Camp this past week. Coaching by David Zigler (Coastal) on developing a personal “Rule of Life” was one of the key highlights. David Higle (Education & Clergy Development) & Laura Zigler offered one-on-one spiritual direction sessions as well as providing leadership to […]
Every month our General Superintendent, Dr. Wayne Schmidt, provides three identical Zoom sessions to allow for face-to-face interaction with the 30 District Superintendents in North America. Annual membership reaffirmation was briefly mentioned in our Thursday session with follow-up reference to the variety of downloadable documents and videos available at www.wesleyan.org/discipleship/membership to encourage new and renewed membership. […]
A powerfully rich spirit of celebration and God’s presence was evident as AJ Plaizier (Assistant DS) joined me at the Kings(Brent Ingersoll) Board on Monday evening. Two hospital room baptisms earlier that day by Dan Lamos were added to the 67 baptisms on the last weekend of January in all six services of Kings Church (three […]
Three days plus travel were invested in Kingdom leadership this week with our General Superintendent, Dr. Wayne Schmidt, HQ Executive Cabinet, and nearly 30 District Superintendents at the annual DS Institute. The location for these meetings was at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando which is also the location for The Gathering 2019. It was an energizing and […]
Fifteen Pastors of 13 churches from the Avalon Peninsula to the South Shore to Northern Maine convened last Monday for the Breakthru Roundtable hosted by Ken Banks (Connection). This four-hour forum included one-half virtual participants via Zoom as they joined the others in the Edgett Boardroom at District Office. This collaborative day of dialog yielded […]
Hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Jesus offers a hand-up and out through Celebrate Recovery for those willing to take the first step. The Celebrate Recovery Forum hosted this weekend by Deep Water (AJ Thomas) was a massive Kingdom win. The Friday night session included 76 people, registrants for the forum and regular attenders – 12 of whom showed up for the first […]
My family worshipped yesterday morning at The River – Bangor (Steve Sinclair). This church family was birthed on Easter Sunday 2016 as a merger between the River City & Pathway congregations. This “marriage” has been incredibly successful with a deep sense of unity as nearly 100% of both previous congregations have remained to form a […]
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