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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 ...
January 8-13, 2016, the annual SPARK Youth Ministry Conference in Dallas was held at Kessler Park United Methodist Church. Youth workers attended seminars, received training, applied to Southwestern College's Master of Arts in Specialized Ministries' youth ministry emphasis, and more.Bishop Richard ...
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 ...
Winfield, Kan. — A band made up of Southwestern College alumni and friends is releasing an album of live Christmas worship music entitled In the Company of Friends.The album features rock worship-style variations on Christmas favorites such as “O Come O Come Emmanuel,” “The First Noel,” and “What Ch ...
The Institute for Discipleship will be taking over recruitment, advising and academic responsibilities for Southwestern College's online Master of Arts in Specialized Ministries degree program. This change will take place in fall of 2015. The degree had been under the domain of the college's Profe ...
There will be an SC gathering at Mead’s Corner (430 E Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS 67202) in Wichita, Kansas, on June 11 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. during the Great Plains Annual Conference. All Builders in Ministry and guests are welcome.New Southwestern president Brad Andrews and new campus minister Ben Han ...
Rev. Ben Hanne is the new Campus Minister at Southwestern College. He will begin on July 1, 2015. His full-time position is underwritten by the GPAC. “We are extremely pleased to have Rev. Hanne to assist the college efforts to provide a ministerial presence to our whole college community. We are eq ...