“I want to share the joy of the Lord through my art with as many people as I can.” Beth Heisey, long-time member and attender at Grace Polaris Church in Westerville, Ohio, uses her paintings to spark Gospel conversations about being forgiven. “My art is about how I feel when I confess my sins — […]
Each year at youth conference, Momentum Ministry Partners honors one youth pastor who is faithfully discipling the next generation and investing in the lives of students. This person is selected by a panel of Momentum staff, based on meeting certain criteria. This year’s Student Ministries Pastor of the Year Award recipient is Jordan Gillette, student
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The Charis Fellowship held its annual business meeting on Thursday, July 13, 2023, on the final day of national conference in St. Petersburg, Fla. An online informational meeting was previously held on July 6, with audio and video recordings made available to all registered delegates to help provide greater awareness of items that were to be
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Main sessions from Access conference, held July 11–13 at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, Fla., are now available to watch on our YouTube here. You can also select individual sessions to watch from the list below. Session One: Fresh Models for Local Church Ministry (Jeff Bogue)Session Two: Fresh Models for Global Impact (Mike Yoder)Session
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Access, the national conference for the Charis Fellowship, begins Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Fla., at the Mahaffey Theater. Nearly 400 people will attend the 3-day conference with a focus on fresh models for ministry. Each main session will be emceed by Church Planters Dayne Carraway (Church at the Well in Towson, Md.) and Wade Rininger
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Mike Yoder’s path to becoming executive director of Encompass World Partners, a role he began on July 1, started when he was just a teenager. He grew up in a Charis Fellowship church and was involved in and connected to several ministries during his formative years. “If someone could be born into the Charis Fellowship,
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How do we share the unchanging hope we’ve found in Jesus with a rapidly changing world? At Access 2023, a variety of speakers will share how the Gospel changes lives while offering encouragement, wisdom, and fresh models for moving forward into the future of ministry. Get more information about Access on our website here. Pastor
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As I sit in my office each week, working on all that pastoral ministry demands of us, I realize how easy it would be to give little attention to what took place at our Charis Alliance conference in Kenya a few months ago. After all, we have sermons to write, people to visit, meetings to
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In July 2022 eastern Kentucky was hit with a devastating flood. The Happy Church in Jackson, Ky., was impacted by the flood, but continued to minister to their community. Read more about the early efforts to restore the church here. When recently asked how things were going, Pastor Mike Tabor said, “We are doing really
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At the end of April, Pataskala Grace Church in Central Ohio celebrated their fiftieth anniversary. The church began with a few families meeting for a Bible study in early 1973. As the group grew, Bill Gardner was called as interim pastor and they made plans for constructing their own building. The church was welcomed into
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