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Sunday morning, May 25, Pastor Jerome Anderson and the team at SoBro (South Broadripple) Community Church welcomed me for their morning worship service. Pastor Jerome and Monique faithfully serve this church in a rapidly changing neighborhood. Pastor Anderson works a full-time job, serves the church, and continues his ministerial studies at Indiana Wesleyan University.  SoBro Church begins their worship services at 11:30, so I had time to drop in on Pastor Mike and Kim Hewitt for the 9 a.m service at Rising Hope Church in Muncie. Rising Hope celebrated a new record of 317 in worship attendance for Easter.  Sunday afternoon, I drove to Caledonia, Michigan for the farewell service for Pastor Jon Allen at Journey Church. Pastor Jon has served Journey Church since 2007 and our family had the joy of being part of the launch team for that new church plant with some of the first meetings in our living room. Our three sons were in the worship band in those early years and Joel, our youngest son, has served on staff with Pastor Allen since 2016. General Superintendent Dr. Wayne Schmidt and District Superintendent Dr. Chris Conrad were among the key note speakers who honored the Allens for their pioneering and fruitful ministry.  This past week was blocked out for a DS Roundtable hosted by Wesleyan Investment Foundation at 12Stone Church. Before heading to Atlanta, I dropped in on Pastor Trexler’s leadership cohort meeting at The River. For the past year, there were two separate groups. This conference year, they’ve reorganized and will be meeting as one group. When the leaders get better, everyone is blessed!  Norwood Davis, CEO of WIF, and his leadership team hosted the Wesleyan district superintendents at the Maxwell Leadership Center on the Sugarloaf campus of 12Stone Church from Tuesday through Thursday, May 20-22. Helpful presentations on the current state and future plans of WIF were complemented by the encouraging “State of the Church” report from GLOO, one of WIF’s strategic partners. The agenda also included a panel on church mergers. Another highlight was hearing from Dr. Kevin Myers and Pastor Jason Berry on the pastor succession journey at 12Stone.  We love to share stories of life change and we had reports of baptisms from two churches this week. Dr. David Drury leads a home-based church in Fishers called “One Multi-Church Network” and Sunday was a special day for their team. They welcomed 30 people for the gathering and celebrated three baptisms. Praise God for lives being #MadeNew!  Rev. Mark Atkinson is off to a strong start leading at Elwood Central Wesleyan Church. The church participated with a float in the Elwood Memorial Day parade but the highlight of the weekend for them was one more baptism! God is on the move!  Our prayers and sympathies are extended to Rev. Michele Henry and her family on the passing of her father on Saturday, May 24. Funeral arrangements will be shared with the district team as soon as possible.  The Wesleyan Church is hosting regional youth events this fall with the closest one coming to Grand Rapids on Friday and Saturday, October 24-25. Our own Andy Riemersma is one of the featured artists. For more information, here’s the link: wesleyan.org/empoweredtour2025  Fairmount Camp has opened registration for this year’s exciting summer youth camps. This year, Fairmount Camp will offer separate camps for middle school students (June 9-13) and high school students (June 16-20). For more information or to register, check out their website: https://www.fairmountcamp.org/teen-camp.html  SAVE THE DATES:
Keep on making a difference in the cause that counts for eternity! Your servant in Christ, Mark Gorveatte Crossroads District Superintendent Comments are closed.
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