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All photos by Leslie Wofford The first week of June, 23 high school students came together for the Amp It Up worship band camp on the campus of Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. Campus minister Rev. Ben Hanne summed up the camp well. “Amp It Up is a weeklong camp that focuses on bui ...
It can be difficult to find theologically rich adult study resources, but a new program is filling that gap. The Wesley Theological Seminary Lay Academy offers 11 online courses covering a variety of topics including Methodist identity, early church history, Christian ethics, interfaith relations ...
Why does the Institute exist? Christians of all kinds struggle to know how to grow closer to God. To help light the way, the Institute for Discipleship creates and supports ministries that provide Christians with training and opportunities to become better disciples of Jesus. This tri-annual new ...
With the 30th anniversary of DISCIPLE Bible Study and the 15th year of the Institute in 2016, we wanted to take time to explore how DISCIPLE helped shape the foundation of the Institute.------------------------------------------------by Steve Wilke, executive director of the Institute for Disciplesh ...
It’s not every day that summer campers get a chance to both gain experience leading worship and professionally record music, but that’s precisely what high school campers did at Southwestern College’s annual Amp It Up worship band camp.Amp It Up is for students who want to use their musical talents ...
Director of Faith Formation for Youth and Young Adults AnnouncedRev. Wendy Mohler-Seib has been selected to be the first director of faith formation for youth and young adults for the Richard and Julia Wilke Institute for Discipleship at Southwestern College. She will begin her new position July 1. ...
JULIA KITCHENS WILKE, 1932-2016Julia Kitchens Wilke was born on July 28, 1932, in Texarkana, Texas, the daughter of Chester Kitchens, a pediatrician, and his wife Edith. She was raised to love the Methodist church, and she relished memorizing Bible verses and grew in her faith in the youth group.She ...
A group of people from the Great Plains Conference of the United Methodist Church recently traveled to the Lydia Patterson Institute in El Paso, Texas. Among them were Southwestern student and LPI graduate Raquel Resendiz, as well as Institute for Discipleship executive director Steve Wilke. Raquel ...
Leah Hartman, the director of the BeADisciple Academy, is a featured guest on the UMC Young People's Podcast with Carl Gladstone. The twenty-three minute interview features Leah talking about how the Academy came into being as well as what the program hopes to accomplish.Listen on iTunes. Leah is fe ...
The Institute for Discipleship will be hosting celebration receptions in honor of the 30th anniversary of DISCIPLE Bible Study in 2016. Celebrations are being planned for the United Methodist Church's General Conference in Portland, Oregon, as well as the five Jurisdictional Conferences in the Unit ...
Hanne and five Southwestern students make their way to Florida for Exploration 2015The school year is nearly half over, and campus ministry is in full swing! We’ve been blessed to have several phenomenal speakers at Chapel so far this year, including new Southwestern president Brad Andrews.Rev. Be ...
The next two speakers have been selected for the Philosophy and Religion lecture series.Dr. D. Stephen Long, Ethics chair at Southern Methodist University, will present the next Smith-Willson lecture on Monday, February 22, at 4pm in Wroten Hall on the Southwestern campus. Dr. Long will present “Let ...