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Best Practices For Supporting Churches And Their Leadership Of New Church Starts, Cj Tillinghast Jan 2023

Best Practices For Supporting Churches And Their Leadership Of New Church Starts, Cj Tillinghast

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Us-Based Ghanaian Methodist Young People : Improving Their Participation In And Commitment To Church, Samuel Osam-Duodu May 2021

Us-Based Ghanaian Methodist Young People : Improving Their Participation In And Commitment To Church, Samuel Osam-Duodu

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Church Planting Pastors : Identifying, Assessing, And Recruiting Potential Church Planting Leadership, Paul Marzahn May 2021

Church Planting Pastors : Identifying, Assessing, And Recruiting Potential Church Planting Leadership, Paul Marzahn

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Equipping For Ministry : Training Rural Pastors To Preach Evangelism And Discipleship In Liberia, George D. Wilson Jr. May 2021

Equipping For Ministry : Training Rural Pastors To Preach Evangelism And Discipleship In Liberia, George D. Wilson Jr.

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Young Disciples In The Marketplace : A Marketplace-Based Discipleship Program For The United Methodist Young Adults Of The Zambales District, Cristine Carnate Atrero Jan 2021

Young Disciples In The Marketplace : A Marketplace-Based Discipleship Program For The United Methodist Young Adults Of The Zambales District, Cristine Carnate Atrero

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Fruitfulness And Ordination : Ministry Effectiveness As A Prerequisite For Ordination, Edney Joaquim Jan 2021

Fruitfulness And Ordination : Ministry Effectiveness As A Prerequisite For Ordination, Edney Joaquim

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Church Planting, Humanitarian Services, And Christian Holiness In Central India : A Study Of The Life And Mission Of Ernest And Phebe Ward, Shivraj Kumar Mahendra Jun 2020

Church Planting, Humanitarian Services, And Christian Holiness In Central India : A Study Of The Life And Mission Of Ernest And Phebe Ward, Shivraj Kumar Mahendra

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Pastoral Leadership Practices On Local Churches In The Nkawkaw Diocese Of The Methodist Church Ghana, John Oppong-Yeboah May 2020

The Effects Of Pastoral Leadership Practices On Local Churches In The Nkawkaw Diocese Of The Methodist Church Ghana, John Oppong-Yeboah

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Leadership Imagery : Developing People With The Right Passion, Attitudes, And Knowledge For Effective Christian Leadership, Clara Joyce Danquah May 2020

Leadership Imagery : Developing People With The Right Passion, Attitudes, And Knowledge For Effective Christian Leadership, Clara Joyce Danquah

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Sickness And Healing : A Critical Analysis Of The Responses Of Christians Within The Methodist/Wesleyan Tradition In Cap-Haitian, Haiti, Guenson Charlot May 2019

Sickness And Healing : A Critical Analysis Of The Responses Of Christians Within The Methodist/Wesleyan Tradition In Cap-Haitian, Haiti, Guenson Charlot

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Perceptions Of The Discipleship Process In The Methodist Church In Kenya : A Study On Discipleship In Context Using The Kenyan Experience, Susan Nkatha Barriu Murithi Mar 2019

Perceptions Of The Discipleship Process In The Methodist Church In Kenya : A Study On Discipleship In Context Using The Kenyan Experience, Susan Nkatha Barriu Murithi

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Orthodoxy And The Great Commission In The South Georgia Conference Of The United Methodist Church, Lee Edward Pettis May 2018

Orthodoxy And The Great Commission In The South Georgia Conference Of The United Methodist Church, Lee Edward Pettis

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Origin Of Wesleyan Methodism In Sierra Leone And History Of Its Missions : Interspersed With Brief Notices Of Other Missionary Societies In The Colony, Charles Marke Jan 2018

Origin Of Wesleyan Methodism In Sierra Leone And History Of Its Missions : Interspersed With Brief Notices Of Other Missionary Societies In The Colony, Charles Marke

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.


Ward Family Collection Microfilm, Ats Special Collections And Archives Jan 2018

Ward Family Collection Microfilm, Ats Special Collections And Archives

Finding Aids

No abstract provided.


Papers Of Albert Edward Day, Ats Special Collections And Archives Jan 2018

Papers Of Albert Edward Day, Ats Special Collections And Archives

Finding Aids

No abstract provided.


Papers Of E. A. Seamands, Ats Special Collections And Archives Jan 2018

Papers Of E. A. Seamands, Ats Special Collections And Archives

Finding Aids

No abstract provided.


The Church Has Left The Building : The Benediction And Missional Worship, Nathan Leslie Carden May 2017

The Church Has Left The Building : The Benediction And Missional Worship, Nathan Leslie Carden

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Salvific Relationship : Exploring The Relationships Between Spiritual Growth And Missional Service In The Wichitas District Of The Oklahoma Annual Conference Of The United Methodist Church, Matthew B. Scraper May 2017

Salvific Relationship : Exploring The Relationships Between Spiritual Growth And Missional Service In The Wichitas District Of The Oklahoma Annual Conference Of The United Methodist Church, Matthew B. Scraper

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Toward A New Church In A New Africa : A Biographical Study Of Bishop Ralph Edward Dodge 1907-2008, Samuel Dzobo Apr 2017

Toward A New Church In A New Africa : A Biographical Study Of Bishop Ralph Edward Dodge 1907-2008, Samuel Dzobo

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Papers Of Edna Judd Davis, Ats Special Collections And Archives Jan 2017

Papers Of Edna Judd Davis, Ats Special Collections And Archives

Finding Aids

No abstract provided.


A Narrative Of The Establishment And Progress Of The Mission To Ceylon And India, W. M. Harvard Jan 2016

A Narrative Of The Establishment And Progress Of The Mission To Ceylon And India, W. M. Harvard

Books

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Planting, Transitioning, And Growing Multiethnic Churches, Gloria Young-Eun Kim Fowler May 2015

Planting, Transitioning, And Growing Multiethnic Churches, Gloria Young-Eun Kim Fowler

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


So The World Will Believe : Discovering The Invitational Nature Of God, Frank Sterling Harris Iii May 2015

So The World Will Believe : Discovering The Invitational Nature Of God, Frank Sterling Harris Iii

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Development And Evaluation Of An Evangelism Workshop For Training Lay Leaders In The Churches Of The Daytona Beach District Of The African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rhella Johnson Murdaugh May 2014

Development And Evaluation Of An Evangelism Workshop For Training Lay Leaders In The Churches Of The Daytona Beach District Of The African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rhella Johnson Murdaugh

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Indigenization Of Christian Worship In Urban Liberia : A Key To Christian Discipleship In The United Methodist Church Of Liberia, Isaac Chukpue-Padmore May 2014

The Indigenization Of Christian Worship In Urban Liberia : A Key To Christian Discipleship In The United Methodist Church Of Liberia, Isaac Chukpue-Padmore

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Harmonizing Individual And Ecclesiastical Expectations With The Institution Of Theological Education, Meeli Tankler Jan 2013

Harmonizing Individual And Ecclesiastical Expectations With The Institution Of Theological Education, Meeli Tankler

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Historical Support For Early Methodist Views Of Water And Spirit Baptism, Joseph D. Mcpherson Jan 2013

Historical Support For Early Methodist Views Of Water And Spirit Baptism, Joseph D. Mcpherson

The Asbury Journal

This paper is a product of the Wesleyan Studies Summer Seminar for 2011. This program at Asbury Theological Seminary, under the leadership of Dr. Kenneth Collins, provides Wesleyan scholars with a month long intensive opportunity for research, writing, and interacting with other Wesleyan scholars for the furthering of academic knowledge in fields of Wesleyan Studies.


This paper explores the historical theological positions regarding water and Spirit Baptism in early Methodism and how these views diverged in the American Holiness Movement. Early Methodist teaching was more in line with Church history in associating water baptism with the outpouring of the Holy …


The Practical Theology Of The General Rules, Andrew C. Thompson Jan 2013

The Practical Theology Of The General Rules, Andrew C. Thompson

The Asbury Journal

The “General Rules of the United Societies” were a central component of the early Methodist movement under John Wesley’s leadership. Examinations of the General Rules in contemporary literature tend to focus on their role in personal and organizational discipline for early Methodists and for the movement as a whole. Yet a close examination of the rules shows that they served a greater purpose: as the practical theological articulation of how Methodists could expect to experience sanctification in the context of their lives. This crucial aspect of the General Rules’ use can be seen by exploring Wesley’s understanding of the means …


World Tour Of Evangelism, Henry Clay Morrison Jan 2012

World Tour Of Evangelism, Henry Clay Morrison

Heritage Material

No abstract provided.


Poetry As The Handmaid Of Piety: Hymns As A Catalyst For Human Development In Early Methodism, Brian Yeich Jan 2012

Poetry As The Handmaid Of Piety: Hymns As A Catalyst For Human Development In Early Methodism, Brian Yeich

The Asbury Journal

In the preface to the 1780 edition o f Hymns for the People Called Methodist, John Wesley stated, 'When Poetry thus keeps its place, as the handmaid of Piety, it shall attain, not a poor perishable 'Wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away."l While John Wesley may have never used the term ''human development," a student of Wesley would quickly observe that Wesley and the early Methodists were focused on the transformation of individual human lives as well as the society in which they lived. This paper explores the connection between the hynmody of early Methodism and …