I was blessed to attend the public launch worship service of 1927 on September 27. 1927 is a new Global Methodist Church plant in Des Moines, Iowa. A team of people have been praying, preparing, and moving toward the launch of this new church. Five Global Methodist churches from the surrounding area have also been praying with the team and offering resources and support. We are still in a season of “Barn Raising,” where local churches and individuals can come alongside 1927 a

Shortly following the hope- and joy-inspiring General Conference, a handful of us from across our previous connection who spent ourselves and yearned for exactly these moments gathered on Zoom. We affirmed the great leadership of our delegation, and our hearts are saturated with optimism for what the Global Methodist movement is becoming in the world. One of us, known for wisdom statements, reminded us of our need to move towards what we have proclaimed is our mission. He fir

The Wells in South Africa Update Blessman International wasted no time in putting our wells donation ($170,000!) to work, with the first of our 13+ wells being drilled on September 1st at a day care center in Limpopo, South Africa. Just one week later, 12 of us from the Upper Midwest Conference were onsite to witness the second borehole being drilled deeper and deeper to reach clean water for another center and its surrounding community. In addition to the well being drille

One of the things that has shaped the early days of the Global Methodist Church is a commitment to classic Christian orthodoxy and sound doctrine. That is to say, it is crucially important to make sure that our beliefs are correct, by which we mean in alignment with the words and spirit of the Holy Scriptures. In spite of what news organizations may have claimed, the key issue for all the Global Methodist leaders that I know was always Biblical authority and the importance of

What a blessing it is to hold up someone else’s name before the Lord so that they might be blessed, healed, or experience God’s never-ending love in some way. The Prayer Shepherds at Grand View Methodist in Iowa do just that every week, and we want to tell you about what we do, how we are growing, and inspire you to step closer to Jesus to help make your church a house of prayer. The Prayer Shepherds at our church meet once every week for an hour, and we pray for our commun

In The Cost of Discipleship (1937), Dietrich Bonhoeffer observed that "Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to new life." My name is Rev. Angie Vertz, and I serve at Hazen Methodist Church in Hazen, North Dakota—a wonderful, close-knit rural community of 2,200 people. Before coming here, I served in Kansas and Nebraska after graduating from Saint Paul School of Theology. As a single mother of three grown children, and today I live with my fourth "child"—a spunky longhair