Upcoming Immersions

Faculty: Rev. Dr. Nick Works

Description:

The ministry of the Pine Ridge Reconciliation Center is to foster mutual trust, respect and understanding while addressing the poverty that exists on the reservation. This J-term course seeks to offer a cross-cultural opportunity for seminary students that will shed light on the role the Christian Church has played in the development of our shared story with the Lakota people both for harm and for healing. This will help students to explore their calling in ministry in this age of racial and spiritual reckoning.

Contact: Nick Works, nworks@wesleyseminary.edu

Led by Drs. Carla and Nick Works

Explore the origins of the church in Greece and Turkey. All three of Paul’s missionary
journeys were centered in ancient Turkey and two of them ended in Greece. Moreover, the apostle John’s ministry was located in Ephesus where he wrote his gospel, three letters and the book of Revelation. Travel by deluxe motorcoach to the ancient cities of Athens, Corinth, Thessalonica, Philippi, Ephesus, Colossae, Hierapolis and Assos. At these sites we will discuss the birth, growth, trials and development of the earliest Pauline congregations as they struggled not only to understand their new faith in Christ, but also as they dealt with false teachers and hostile forces opposed to the church. At the end of the first century, John wrote letters to the seven churches of Revelation which were coping with similar problems of false teaching and persecution. Thus, we will also visit five of the seven churches of Revelation: Ephesus, Pergamon, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.

Please contact Nick Works at nworks@wesleyseminary.edu to register.