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The Gospel Changes Everything

July 4, 2025

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 […]

By Faith

June 19, 2025

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 […]

Meet Julia Wood – Influencer of the 1880s

June 13, 2025

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, […]

The Task Laid on Our Hearts

June 6, 2025

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 […]

Cristo Ahora Ministry in Cuba

May 14, 2025

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 […]

Grace Church Lake Campus Celebrates One Year of Services

May 9, 2025

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 […]

Stepping Into Unknown Territory

April 24, 2025

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 […]

In Celebration of Threefold Communion

March 27, 2025

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 […]

A Broader Theological Vision

March 18, 2025

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 […]

It All Started with a Prayer

March 13, 2025

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 […]

The Gospel Changes Everything

By Faith

Meet Julia Wood – Influencer of the 1880s

The Task Laid on Our Hearts

Cristo Ahora Ministry in Cuba

Grace Church Lake Campus Celebrates One Year of Services

Stepping Into Unknown Territory

In Celebration of Threefold Communion

A Broader Theological Vision

It All Started with a Prayer

The Gospel Changes Everything

By Faith

Meet Julia Wood – Influencer of the 1880s

The Task Laid on Our Hearts

Cristo Ahora Ministry in Cuba

Grace Church Lake Campus Celebrates One Year of Services

Stepping Into Unknown Territory

In Celebration of Threefold Communion

A Broader Theological Vision

It All Started with a Prayer

Speakers Announced for Charis Fellowship Conference 2025 in Lititz, Pa.

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