2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Three Rev. Rochelle Andrews Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2018, Asst Director, Center for Public Theology Best Advice ReceivedLearn to love me… All of me and my way of ministry because God made me as I am! Can You Handle This Drink?Matthew 20:17–28 I […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Three Nadia Fitzcharles Community ConnectionsWTS MTS & MA, Public Theology 2021, Diedra Kriewald Award for Commitment for Excellence in the Teaching Ministry; Director of Children, Youth, Family and Community Ministry at Peace Lutheran Church, Alexandria, Virginia Best Advice ReceivedFollow Jesus, trusting the […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Two Rev. Dr. Teaira Parker Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2019; Pastor, Broad Street United Methodist Church, Burlington, NJ Best Advice ReceivedDon’t let people take you out of your character. Our job is to live, not react. Words of My Mouth and the Meditation […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Two Yein Kim Community ConnectionsWTS Master of Theological Studies (MTS) and International Student from Seoul, Korea, EdTech Student Worker. Best Advice ReceivedTheology is not only based on faith.  Since theology is looking at Christianity from an academic point of view, there’s a […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Two Dr. Artie L. Polk Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2008; Wesley Council Donor, Executive Pastor of Mount Gilead Baptist Church, Washington, DC Best Advice ReceivedThe best advice I have ever received was to continue my undergraduate education at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Two Ruth Jackson Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv Student, Community Engagement Fellow, Vice President of Association of Black Seminarians, Student Council Representative and Chapel Intern Best Advice ReceivedThe best advice I received when I began seminary and the AME ordination process was Ecclesiastes 9:11 […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week Two Rev. Thomas G. James Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2010, Donor, Former Lewis Center Staff; Pastor of Washington Street UMC (Alexandria, VA); Member Congregation of the Church of South Washington in Old Town, Alexandria Best Advice ReceivedIt’s hard to identify just one key […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week One Jazmine L. Brooks Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2020; Pastor, Macedonia AME Church, Accomac, Virginia Best Advice ReceivedStay in the game long enough and if you play it right, eventually the ball will come to you. Just make sure you’re ready to do […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week One – Feast of St. Matthias William R. “Mac” McKenney Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2018, Wesley Council Donor; Associate Pastor, Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, Dale City, Virginia Best Advice ReceivedNever get involved in a land war in Asia. Second String?Acts 1:15-26; John […]

2023  Wesley Community Lenten Devotional View all 2023 Lenten Devotional Reflections » Week One Rev. Nicole Poland Nyembo Community ConnectionsWTS MDiv 2019; Campus Chaplain at The Commons at Glencliff, Nashville; Provisional Deacon, Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference of The United Methodist Church Best Advice ReceivedYou do not need to earn rest. Created for CommunityLuke 9:18-25 As we […]