Dear Friends There has been many commemorations and celebrations the past month. Wesleyans commemorate the 24th of May, as the day that John Wesley, the father of the Methodist Movement received assurance of his salvation. Our President writes an interesting article in this edition of the First Friday Letter. The Methodist Church in Fiji […]

By: Rev. Dr. J. C. Park (President of World Methodist Council) People called Methodists all around the world are celebrating the 280th anniversary of the Aldersgate experience of John Wesley. Strictly speaking, it was not his conversion from his unbelief or atheism but his personal experience of the assurance of faith in Jesus Christ. Wesley […]

By Nazarene Church News Staff 25 May 2018, Havana, Cuba — Leonel López, president for the Church of the Nazarene in Cuba and superintendent of the Cuba West District, shared an update this week following the 18 May plane crash that claimed the lives of more than 100 people, including 10 Nazarene pastor couples. López was at the airport […]

By Philippe Kituka Lolonga May 15, 2018 | UVIRA, Congo (UMNS) Nine people have died and thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, including five United Methodist schools, two local churches and pastoral homes, after heavy rains and flooding in the Uvira District of Kivu. Among the dead are a United Methodist woman from […]

By Kathy L. Gilbert May 7, 2018 | UMNS The Rev. Bill Jenkins, pastor of the Christ United Methodist Ministry Center in San Diego, and other church leaders are gearing up to offer shelter to hundreds of migrants gathering at the border seeking asylum. The migrants reached the border after a months-long journey, fleeing their […]

    In January, the Revd Michaela Youngson, President Designate of the Methodist Conference [Methodist Church in Britain], visited the United Church of Papua New Guinea with her husband Sandy, and Steve Pearce, Partnership Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific. The United Church of Papua New Guinea celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in true South Pacific style. Surrounded by beautiful landscapes and […]