March 8, 2022 Yongchi Rhie   CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv 2017; currently serving at Eden Korean UMC, Baltimore, MD; Home Country: South Korea Movie Title: Stranger in a Strange World We are God’s Handiwork ~ Isaiah 55:8 As we are weaving through the fragments of fragility of our current time, the intersections of our […]

Michael Knipe
Take Up the Cross Every Day ~ Luke 9:23

    March 6, 2022 Rev. Dr. Stacey Cole Wilson   CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv 2003, WTS Board Member; WTS Donor; Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church Movie Title: Dare to Be Prayer/Litany for the 1st Sunday in Lent ~ Deuteronomy 26:1-11, Romans 10:8b-13, Luke 4:1-13, Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 Creator of the Universe and One […]

    Day 4 – March 5 Rev. W. Antoni Sinkfield, Ph.D. CommunityConnections:  WTS Associate Dean of Community Life; Husband, Father & PopTart (My Granddad Name); African Methodist Episcopal Church Pastor Movie Title:  The Magnificent Seven Blessed Is. . .God’s Plan to Bless Us ~ Psalm 1 An empowering aid towards fulfilling our desire to […]

    Day 3 – March 4 Becky Johnson CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv 2010; WTS Board Member 2021-current; Wesley Council Donor; Lay Leader New Hope United Methodist Church, Fredericksburg, VA Movie Title:  Broken and Blessed True Fasting ~ Isaiah 58:1-9 Lent is a time of repentance and purification as we prepare to meet the Risen Christ.  […]

    March 3, 2022 Evan Blaire Taylor   CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv Student, Community Engagement Fellow, Editor of Wesley Journal, Vice-President of Association of Black Seminarians; Digital Minister, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, DC. Movie Title:  A Life of Meaning Making A Prayer for Taking Up Your Cross ~ Luke 9:18–25 Lord God, Open our […]

Ash Wednesday – March 2, 2022 Tom Berlin   CommunityConnections:  Chairperson, WTS Board of Governors; Wesley Council Donor; Lead Pastor, Floris United Methodist Church  Movie Title:  The Matrix Return to the Lord ~ Joel 2:1-12, 12-17 Ashes in the sign of the cross on my forehead remind me that I am not the person I […]

    Fat Tuesday – March 1, 2022 Kasongo Butler   CommunityConnections:  Wesley Council Director and Donor; WTS MDiv 2020; Community Engagement Fellow; proud HBCU grad — Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Movie Title: The Growing Edge Fat Tuesday Liminality Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, or Carnival marks the last day before Lent […]

  Easter Monday – EpilogueDay 48  –  April 05 Kasongo Butler Community Connections:  WTS MDiv 2020; Director of Wesley Council; Wesley Council Donor; Metropolitan AME, D.C., New Mount Zion AME, Tallahassee, FL Morning Theme Songs:   Get Up, Mary Mary REIGN The Parable of the Trees ~ Judges 9:7-15  At the beginning of 2021, a […]

  Resurrection SundayDay 47  –  April 04 James E. Victor, Jr. Community Connections:  WTS Board of Governors 2014-current; WTS DMin 2009; Pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist Church, Arlington, VA Morning Theme Songs:   He’s Been So Good  by The First Church of Deliverance RECREATION, REPARATIONS Happy Easter Day! ~ John 20:1-18 The church that […]