Read the stories of how God is working in the lives of the students and staff at the Wesley!
Love. Serve. Move. These three words define what it means to be a part of the Wesley. They are on shirts of students that are relaxing in the back room. You may find them on wooden pallets that bear photos of missions past, and the loved ones who bore witness to these words in action. As a bit of an older Wesleyian now, I can recall many moments in my short time here that exemplify these words.
Read MoreRead about the mission of the leadership team at Wesley Foundation as presented by Laura!
Read MoreThe Wesley is a place. It’s a place Sam asked me to come for lunch one day, and where Kohl understood my smile.
Read MorePete discusses how he came to the Wesley Foundation and the ways his life has changed since.
Read MoreI am more than a month into the internship at the Welsey Foundation, and it is quite the experience! It is often exhausting, radically illuminating, and truly fulfilling. It is showing me what it means to be a Christian leader. I’ve had a faulty understanding of leadership, but during the past year, and especially these several weeks, my understanding is being corrected. I am growing into someone who is leaving behind personal pretenses and learning what is most important to discipling God’s people.
Read MoreGracie learns the beauty of liturgical tradition upon her arrival at the Wesley Foundation.
Read MoreRead Camellia’s life changing experience in Mexico.
“To say that Mexico changed my life would not be an exaggeration. It being my first mission trip, I didn’t fully know what to expect. However, from the stories I’d heard from others, I anticipated to work, learn to function within a group, share the Gospel, and in Mexico specifically, force myself into awkward encounters of struggling to communicate in a language that I was far from fluent in…”
Read MoreRead Maegan’s revelations through the study of Romans at The Well this past year!
Read MoreRead about Ellen’s time in Haiti this summer with the Wesley Foundation. She speaks of the powerful movement of Christ in and through her and what she learned from the Haitian people.
Read MoreSeven years ago I moved back to Ruston. I didn’t have many friends, and my dreams to work in film were harder to reach. Little did I know, that was all about to change. I discovered a place called The Wesley Foundation.
Read MoreThrough the Psalms we come to know David as a man after God’s own heart. Within this first half of Psalm 34 we can point to phrases such as ‘I will bless the Lord at all times,’ and ‘I sought the Lord,’ as reasons as to why he might be named as a man after God’s own heart. David is poetic and heartfelt in his speech, and it is by his words that he is known as a man after God’s own heart. The words out of our mouths are what speak life around us. Our words are the vehicles of what comes from within our heart and they are just as capable of defiling as they are uplifting. Whether we think so or not, what we say matters all the time.
Read MoreBy any means necessary, do what you got to do, get yours before they get theirs, be about your business. Bottom line, be clever, or should I say be shrewd, or go home. It’s the “only” way to get what is rightfully yours in this world. And it is what we see in this parable directly demonstrated by the actions and words of both the enslaved manager, yes enslaved, and the master. It is what we see in this nation demonstrated by both the false sense of security and capitalism. The bondage of security ensnares us by wanting all we can have for ourselves, plus some. Nothing is ever enough. My children needs shoes, good shoes, better shoes, the best shoes. My wife deserves a good car, a better car, a luxury car. I work 12 hours a day, so I can play golf every Saturday with my friends at this fancy golf place…
Read MoreHow often do we bleed out of our eyes, worrying about the appearance of things when the living God is embodied in the people around us, standing right in front of us? How tempting is it to condemn the hungry, the poor, the broken for receiving the things the Creator has freely provided because we think to ourselves that they don’t deserve it?
Read MoreWe must remember as we go about the work of proclaiming the Gospel that the choice to listen to or to reject us, and by extension Christ, is not ours to make for the students on this campus. Let us not rush to judgment when we are not received by the town; when the town chooses to reject us and the Christ in Whose Name we come, let us not in condemnation cast them down to Hades. Let us, instead, remember our own repentance, our own mourning in sackcloth and ashes, when we, too, rejected those who came bearing the Name of Christ.
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