Quick Update: Hope Rising and Baptisms!

I’m traveling to Oklahoma Wesleyan University this week and Michael Wood, our District Administrator, is on a well-deserved family vacation, so this is an abbreviated team update. Stay tuned for more next week!
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Sunday morning, October 27, Rev. Zach Working and the team at Huntington Hope Rising Church welcomed me to bring greetings from our district team and the message from God’s Word. God has been blessing this turnaround ministry and it was a joy to worship with them.
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Dr. Chris Williams, Assistant DS and pastor of Lakeview Wesleyan Church, hosted leaders from three churches on Saturday for the Next Level church workshop. Dr. Williams will host another group in the spring so if you missed out on this opportunity, let us know so we can add your team to the waiting list.

Rev. Jeff Luedtke and the team at Fairmount Wesleyan Church reported in with two baptisms on October 20. It is encouraging to hear how God is moving at Fairmount Wesleyan!
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Dr. Craig Thurmon, District Secretary and church planter, reported in with two more baptisms at The Encounter Assembly on the east side of Indianapolis. Praise God for lives #MadeNew!
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Pastor Joe Jackson and Anderson United Wesleyan Church are celebrating two members of their youth group who publicly professed their faith in Christ through water baptism yesterday!
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Pastor Michael Gallant and the team at Mt. Etna Community Life Church are rejoicing in five more baptisms! Community Life Church is one of our newest congregations having joined us in the last two years after disaffiliating from their previous denomination. The church is growing and these baptisms are just the latest evidence of God’s gracious hand on their ministry.
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​I would welcome your prayers for traveling mercies and productive conversations with potential church planters at OKWU!

Your servant in Christ,

Mark Gorveatte / Crossroads District Superintendent