After the success of the Summit Youth Academy last summer, Rev. Wendy Mohler-Seib was tapped to organize a confirmation camp for Wichita districts by district superintendent Mitch Reece.Mohler-Seib, who is the director of faith formation for youth and young adults at the Institute and leads the Summ ...
Article from Great Plains Conference: Amp It Up! camp experience transforms young musicians
Kaitlin Kendel from Abilene Emanuel UMC leads a group practicing to lead worship at the Great Plains Annual Conference session June 15 during the recent Amp It Up! music camp at Southwestern College.Photo by David Burkeby David Burke, communications coordinator for the Great Plains Conference of the ...
Holy Land trip being organized for May, 2018
Those who have always wanted to take a trip to the Holy Land have the chance of a lifetime this spring.The Institute for Discipleship at Southwestern College is hosting a 10-day trip to the Holy Lands May 14-23, 2018. Anyone is invited to join the tour, even those not residing in Winfield, Kansas, w ...
Culture of Call Event & Timothy Circle Connections
Guest post by Jen Burch of United Methodist Camp and Retreat MinistriesPromising young athletes are connected with key coaches, sought out and recruited to excellent teams and sports programs. Promising young scholars’ test scores are shared with top universities, building a pipeline toward future a ...
New Board Members for the Institute for Discipleship
Four new members have been added to the Institute board. Susan Fuquay and JoAnn and Stephen Hoskins now fill the spaces vacated by Alan Ebright and Greg Thompson, who have each completed their ten-year terms on the IFD board and now relate to the board as Emeritus Members. Kim Moore replaces Cynthia ...
Summit Youth Academy at Southwestern College deepens faith and broadens perspectives of youth
For seven days at the end of July, 36 rising high school juniors and seniors from around Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and as far away as Mexico attended the Summit Youth Academy on the campus of Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. The Summit, which was designed by the Richard and Julia Wilke In ...
Timothy Circle receives grant from General Board of Higher Education and Ministry
The Institute for Discipleship was recently awarded a Young Clergy Initiative (YCI) grant from the United Methodist General Board of Higher Education & Ministry (GBHEM).The Institute will use this grant to hire several part-time staff members to expand the reach of the Timothy Circle. These sta ...
High schoolers learn ministry alongside music skills at Amp It Up camp
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 ...
Wesleyan Studies certification available from new Lay Academy
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 ...
News from the Institute for Discipleship – November, 2016
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 ...
The Institute as a continuation of Disciple Bible Study
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 ...
Amp It Up camp develops worship leadership skills in youth
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 ...