We are happy to announce the Rev. Dr. Stacey Cole Wilson will serve as the preacher for our 2016 commencement ceremony, which will be Monday, May 9 at 2 p.m. Cole Wilson is a pastor, teacher, mother, wife, youth-advocate, and award-winning author. Currently, she serves as the lead pastor of Good Hope Union United Methodist […]
This past autumn 2015, three focus groups were held with Wesley graduates asking, “How can we be your lifelong learning partner?” One resounding theme that was gleaned from these meetings was two-fold. Wesley alumni have a desire to 1) Gather informally with other graduates to network and share about their ministries and 2) Continue Learning. […]
The transition from seminary can be daunting. Wesley graduates from 1996 and 2006 remember their time at Wesley and give advice for students graduating this year. The Rev. Dr. Carletta Allen, M.Div. 1996 cum laude, D.Min. 2009 summa cum laude, lead pastor, Asbury United Methodist Church, Annapolis, Maryland, says: Stay focused on your call. In […]
The Rev. Dr. Cedric Johnson has advice on how church leaders can be renewed after the demands of Eastertide. A pastor in the Church of God in Christ and Wesley’s assistant professor of pastoral theology and congregational care, Johnson understands the struggle. In addition to his work at Wesley, he pastors and founded the Christian […]
A Good and Faithful Servant On a typical Sunday, Rachel Yonghua He works at her church from 7 a.m. to after 7 p.m. without resting or eating until the end of the day. She is one of 17 pastors serving a church in Beijing, China with more than 8,000 people attending every week. Yonghua He […]
The late Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero died speaking out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. In 1980, Romero was assassinated while offering Mass a day after delivering a sermon calling upon Salvadorian soldiers to stop violating human rights. The Wesley community has been honoring Romero for many years with a chapel service and a lecture. Often […]
The Rev. Daniel Mejia-Munoz (M.Div. 2001) will preach at the Tuesday, March 15, 11 a.m., service in Oxnam Chapel. Mejia-Munoz is the senior pastor of St. Matthews UMC in Bowie, Maryland. He is also a member of Wesley’s board of governors and a current D.Min. student. Also, he was one of the first Lewis Fellows […]
The Rev. Dr. Daisy L. Machado will deliver this year’s Oscar Romero lecture on March 17, at 4 p.m. Machado serves as professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary in New York and director of the Hispanic Summer Program. She has had also had a history of partnering with Wesley faculty and students. We […]
Paul Cho (M.Div. 2017) sees music as his ministry. “I feel like my calling is to do praise and worship ministry for the Asian community and to bring new styles and genres of worship to the Korean church,” he said. “In the future I see myself directing a worship team, planning, recruiting and leading the […]
Joe Jeung experienced a series of dramatic personal events that convinced him that he needed to surrender to his call. And that he needed to attend seminary—Wesley, in particular. “Part of me has always known I was called to ministry. I was born into it, so to speak, as my maternal grandfather was an evangelical […]
