Global Methodist Church in Formation
By Walter Fenton - The Transitional Leadership Council, a 17 member team of theologically conservative Methodists, has released information on the formation of the new Global Methodist Church. The council said the new church will officially come into existence when a...
General Conference Postponed: Virtual Meeting Needs Protocol Action
By Thomas Lambrecht - On February 25, the Commission on the General Conference announced that the 2020 General Conference – postponed once until August 29, 2021 – has now been postponed again until August 29, 2022. On the same day, the Council of Bishops announced it...
Tacos and late-night prayer with Bishop Aquiña
Tacos and late-night prayer with Bishop Aquiña By Steve Beard May/June 1997 It is not often that I have been invited to eat dinner with a bishop. It is even rarer to have a bishop prepare dinner for me. But that is what happened while I was recently in Mexico,...
Forward to Our Methodist Heritage
Forward to Our Methodist Heritage (By Charles Keysor) By Bishop Earl G. Hunt 1996 AFTER DR. JAMES S. STEWART of Edinburgh had preached a few years ago to a large audience of United Methodist ministers and their wives in Charlotte, North Carolina, a young minister...
Troubled soul finds salvation
Troubled soul finds salvation By Alice Crann At first Joseph Justiss hated the revival. “I remember not being able to breathe. My head was hurting. I was nauseated. I watched [evangelist] Steve Hill preach and I hated it.” He left vowing never to return. The next...
The Pensacola Outpouring
The Pensacola Outpouring By Steve Beard July/August 1996 The final evening after a week of revival services is always bittersweet After all, God has been at work in the lives of the faithful. The preaching has been challenging, the praise and worship music has been...
The Good News Interview with Steve Hill
The Good News Interview with Steve Hill July/ August 1996 What follows is adapted from a conversation that Steve Beard, editor of Good News, had with evangelist Steve Hill. Revival meetings were launched by Rev. Hill at the Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola,...
Archive: “Speak Lord!”
Archive: "Speak Lord!" By Marilyn N. Anderes It has been said that "the call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him." Those who belong to God know his unique voice. He speaks with authority,...
