I pray, and I believe, church, that we must always remember to not only sit still before God, but to pray for one another. – Rev. Terri Hord Owens
Office of the General Minister and President
Dear Disciples, May 28, 2021
“Filled with that fresh fire and fresh power from on high, there are still a ways to go. There is still a new place to which we must travel as church, a new church, with the courage to imagine who we must be how we must serve, how we shall live in this new time and space.” – Rev. Terri Hord […]
Imagine With Me: North American Pacific/Asian Disciples
“Many times we say about the covenant, only covenant for the denomination or something, but we have to remember that we have a covenant as a Christian and we have a covenant as a brother and sister in Christ. That’s the first thing. People feel that and when they find that important aspect in our in our church, people will come.” […]
Dear Disciples, May 14, 2021
“I feel like we need a revival, a fresh wind, fresh fire, a reminder of the fact that God has indeed equipped us to emerge from this time, just as he equipped those first disciples, those first believers who lived through the disruption of the crucifixion and the resurrection. They emerged full of hope and praise because they were pointed back to […]
Imagine With Me: Re-imagining covenant
“We do it because we want to not because we have to. We are Disciples because we want to be Disciples, we want to be in covenant relationships.” – Rev. Dr. Nadine Burton on the way the General Board and the Governance Committee is working to re-imagine the covenant relationship of the church for this new era. Find the Covenant Curriculum here. Read […]
Dear Disciples, April 23, 2021
We must continue to be those prophetic voices for justice and righteousness, following Jesus who claimed for himself the call to preach good news to the poor, to set at liberty those who are captive, to bind up the broken hearted and oppressed. To love our neighbor is not only to want for them but […]
