2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Five Cesar Lodiha Akoka Community ConnectionsWTS MTS Student; Reverend Deacon, West Congo Annual Conference of the United Methodist in the Democratic Republic of Congo/Kinshasa Best Advice ReceivedBeing a Good Samaritan for our neighbors is putting love into action. Love Into ActionLuke 10:25–37 […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Five Angela Willingham Community ConnectionsWTS, Vice President of Development; CFRE Best Advice ReceivedAwareness is the greatest agent for change. — Eckhart Tolle Faithful ServantPsalm 145:8–19 I am writing this in the Oklahoma City airport just a few hours after attending my Uncle Pat’s […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Four Rev. Chania L. Dillard Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2018; Lower Prince George’s County Cluster of the United Methodist Church; Reid Temple AME Church, Glenn Dale, Maryland; Chaplain of the Alpha Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Best Advice ReceivedBe who […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Four Phil Wingeier-Rayo Community ConnectionsWTS Professor of Missiology, World Christianity and Methodist Studies Best Advice ReceivedWrite it down and do it now!  — Quaker philosopher and ethicist, D. Elton Trueblood “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Four Ruth V E Phillips Community ConnectionsWTS 1st Year MA student; Pastor with African Methodist Episcopal Church, Barbados; Executive Committee Member of the World Day of Prayer; Chairperson Barbados Family Planning Association Best Advice ReceivedTrust in the Lord and lean not on […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Four Rev. Dr. Lydia E. Muñoz Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2005; Executive Director of the National Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministries Best Advice Received“Si te caes, del piso no pasas.” If you fall, you will not go lower than the floor. (A Puerto Rican […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Four Titus Bryant Community ConnectionsWTS 3rd Year Master of Divinity student and CEI fellow graduating in May 2023; Youth Pastor and Community organizer working with small mid-size congregations in the DMV; Hometown: Third Ward, Houston, Texas Best Advice ReceivedDo what you need […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Three Pamelia K. Moore, DMin. Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2020; Alpha Kappa Alpha Omega Pi Omega’s President; member of Delta Kappa Gamma; National Educational Association, Maryland State Education Association; LifePoint Church Best Advice ReceivedThere will be many disturbances in this life but you […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Three Evan Blaire Taylor Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv Student and Community Engagement Fellow (2022-2023), President of Student Council and Media Director for Oxnam Chapel Best Advice ReceivedSeminary is a space of internal and external transformation. The work of seminary happens simultaneously is hard […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Three Dick Walker Community ConnectionsWTS Wesley Council Donor; Former WTS fundraising consultant Best Advice ReceivedBeing happy is a choice. Love Your EnemiesLuke 6:27–38 I’ ve always had a love/hate relationship with this gospel passage.  It challenges us to do something that is […]