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    April 2, 2022 Rev. Dr. JaNice Parks CommunityConnections:  WTS MA 2014, DMin Student – Spirituality and Story Track; WTS Director of Enrollment; Worship Ministry Coordinator, Emory Fellowship UMC, DC Movie Title: The Gift of Favor The Crowd ~ Jeremiah 11:18-20; Psalm 7:6-11; John 7:37-52 The past couple of years have been filled with […]

    April 1, 2022 Dr. Leven Chuck Wilson CommunityConnections:  WTS Wesley Council Donor Movie Title: Mission Impossible Mission Impossible ~ Luke 18:27 If I had to compare my life to a movie, it would be “Mission Impossible”.  A few years ago, I was diagnosed with an illness that threatened my life.  I realized that […]

    March 31, 2022 Rev. Lee Russell Brown, Jr., M.Div., M.Ed. CommunityConnections:  WTS Office of Community Life Program Administrator; Itinerant Elder, African Methodist Episcopal Church, East TN Annual Conference Movie Title: God’s Complicated Masterpieces Can I Get A Witness? ~ John 5:30-47 Central to the black homiletic experience is that cultural artifact commonly known […]

    March 30, 2022 Reverend Kevin Highfield CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv 2018; WTS MTS Anticipated 2022; Methodist Church of Great Britain, Presbyter Movie Title: Sense 8 We Are Not Alone ~ Isaiah 49: 9, 12, 14, 16 God calls us to come out and be free; all of us, everywhere.  I found the hardest part […]

    March 29, 2022 Youtha Hardman-Cromwell CommunityConnections:  WTS Professor, Practice in Ministry and Mission Emeritus; Retired Clergy, Virginia Conference The United Methodist Church; Trinity UMC Alexandria, VA Movie Title: The Questioner Remember What We’ve Reaped ~ Psalm 126 Do you feel that you have been living captive to COVID-19?  Are you continually returning to […]

    March 28, 2022 Liz Pruchnicki CommunityConnections:  WTS Recruiter, Office of Admissions; WTS MTS 2020; PC(USA) Movie Title: The Technicolor DreamLiz Hope in Liminal Spaces ~ Joel 2:1-2 This “Day of the Lord” is serious business: there will be darkness and gloom, and clouds and even more darkness!  The day of the Lord will […]

    March 27, 2022 Rev. Dr. E. Allen Stewart CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv 1977; Board of Governors Emeritus; Wesley Council Donor; Member, John Wesley Society; WTS Adjunct Faculty; Retired Clergy, Baltimore Washington Conference – District Superintendent, Washington Columbia & Annapolis Districts Movie Title: The Life and Trials of a Wounded Warrior Called to be Ambassadors […]

    March 26, 2022 Ch, Lt Col Marianne Kehoe Nassef, USAF CommunityConnections:  MDiv WTS 1999; WTS DMin (anticipated 2023); WTS Donor; Fairlington UMC, Alexandria District, Virginia Conference Movie Title: Always a New Adventure Sure as the Dawn? ~ Hosea 6:3 The journey from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan took […]

    March 25, 2022 William R. “Mac” McKenney CommunityConnections:  WTS MDiv 2018; Center, Varsity Basketball, Wesley Theological Seminary; Associate Pastor, Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, Dale City, VA Movie Title: Banned in Boston The World Turned Upside Down ~ Luke 1:26-38 While the mother of Jesus is often portrayed as “Mary, meek and mild”- […]