The Charis Fellowship held its annual Charis Conversation business meeting on Thursday, July 31, 2025, on the final day of Charis Fellowship Conference in Lititz, Pennsylvania. A 24-page delegate report was sent to all registered delegates on July 5. Details were reviewed during the Charis Conversation. Voting was then conducted throughout the week following Conference
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When disaster strikes, it turns people’s lives upside down. In a matter of moments, a flood, hurricane, tornado, or manmade crisis can rob someone of everything they’ve worked so hard to build. Lost, lonely, and hopeless, they are searching for help from someone they can trust. Driven by your faith in Christ, you can be
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. (2 Corinthians 5:17, ESV) I remember where I was the first time I truly heard and paid attention to this verse. I was in a college gymnasium, surrounded by two thousand other teenagers in southern Mississippi. It
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In early June, 11 Charis churches gathered for the fifth annual Ignite Camp. The camp began in 2021 when four youth pastors came together to create a camp experience for middle school students. The camp has grown from 87 students and four churches to nearly 200 students and 11 churches. “Ignite exists to reach middle
Julia Wood was only 21 years old when the Civil War broke out. Growing up as the eldest daughter of a wealthy landowner in Virginia, she received a classical education and encountered an array of difficult life experiences that God used to craft her into a remarkable woman who loved the Lord, studied the bible,
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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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