Clergy Colleagues – Recently, I was reading in Lasting Impact (Carey Nieuwhof) about ten healthy options for self-care. They...
Pecometh Launches the Center for Clergy Excellence
by Jack Shitama on Thu, Oct 15, 2015 @ 11:10 AM
The Riverview Retreat Center is a beautiful facility. But, it’s just a facility. What matters is what happens there. In...
New Things in Store for the 2015 Re:View Confirmation Retreat
by Megan Shitama Weston on Tue, Feb 17, 2015 @ 16:02 PM
The Re:View Confirmation Retreat has grown over the years from a couple dozen participants in 2012 to 60 youth and 15 adults...
Pastor Asher's Best Week Ever!
by Megan Shitama Weston on Wed, Feb 19, 2014 @ 15:02 PM
Our SLCs (Spiritual Life Coordinators) volunteer to lead Bible studies and worship during for a week at Camp Pecometh. Rev....
The Keys to Confirmation: Scripture, Tradition, Experience and Reason
by Megan Shitama Weston on Fri, Jan 24, 2014 @ 14:01 PM
One of the goals of a United Methodist confirmation program is to help students understand our Wesleyan theology. Sometimes...
This Methodist idea could transform confirmation... and the world.
by Megan Shitama Weston on Tue, Jan 14, 2014 @ 13:01 PM
II have a hunch that has been developing for about a year. It started when I was teaching confirmation last year, and began...
Four Ways Running Is Like the Spiritual Disciplines
by Jack Shitama on Tue, Oct 01, 2013 @ 16:10 PM
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that...