Two years ago Pastor Billy Tweeddale of Oceanview Fellowship in Melbourne, Fla., had an encounter at the South Focus Retreat that led to an ongoing partnership for ministry in the Bahamas. The partnership came out of a series of conversations with Charis pastors connected to churches and ministries in the Caribbean. At the retreat, Pastor […]
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In January 2025, a team of people spent a few weeks in Cuba meeting with churches, pastors, and seminary students. The team members were Pastor R and Debbie Greene (former senior pastor Community Grace Church Frederick, Md.), Chaplain James and Elizabeth Schaefer, Ted Offut (International Director of Church Planting with Encompass World Partners), Enrique Sandoval (deacon at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in
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Sunday, May 4, 2025 marked one year of Sunday gatherings for Grace Church Lake Campus in Indian Lake, Ohio. The church celebrated with a special service at Old Field Beach on Indian Lake that included a reflection on the history of the church campus plant, a time of worship, a special honoring of those who
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I knew what God was calling me to, but I didn’t know where to start. Being a woman in full-time ministry was a foreign concept to me, and yet I found myself desiring to make this a reality. There were women in my local church, and in my community, who had been reaching out to
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In Celebration of Threefold Communion Proper understanding of the significance of a celebration is necessary to fully appreciate it. So it is with Communion. Without knowing the historical context of why we do it, the spiritual significance for our lives now, or the implications for the church, our practice of Communion would lack some of
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Theological vision is the goal of the Charis Symposium. In his 1993 book The Fabric of Theology, Richard Lints describes theological vision as the effort “to capture the entire counsel of God as revealed in the Scriptures and to communicate it in a conceptuality that is native to the theologian’s own age.” Such a theological
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In September 2024 Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and continued to move inland. By the time it reached the mountains of western North Carolina, it had weakened to a tropical storm. It hovered over the region, dropping record-breaking amounts of rain. This caused flooded rivers and devastating mudslides, affecting thousands of people who were
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At Charis Fellowship Conference this summer, we’ll look at discipleship from different angles: one-on-one relationships, church culture, intentional outreach, and disciple making in the home. Join us as we explore what it means to be ALL IN. Charis Fellowship Conference is a three-day gathering of pastors, ministry leaders, and committed church members for the purpose of studying the Bible,
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I know that there are those who have far exceeded my brief 45 years of full-time ministry. But God has graciously allowed me to serve in three locations…the last being 34 years in Meyersdale, Pa. I’ve learned that longevity in any ministry is not due to the ability of the servant, but the grace and
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Being a pastor’s wife is a unique calling. It is a role of both immense joy and immense weight. Ministry, vocation, and family often blend together as you serve side by side, opening your lives to those God has called you to shepherd. What makes the role of a pastor’s wife unique is that no
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