Testimony Formation

7 Spiritual Practices for the New Year

Practices such as Sabbath keeping and cultivating wonder can help you stay grounded in God and ready for whatever 2022 may bring.

By Jayne Davis

Finding Space for Your Soul

We all need spaces that rest our bodies, slow our minds, and allow our souls to expand.

By Laura B. Murray

Take a P This Week

The five P’s of contemplation are well worth the 12 minutes they take out of an otherwise busy and stressful day.

By Jack Levison

Testimony Articulation

Challenges and Opportunities for Evangelism


Evangelism may have a checkered history, but rightly understood it could be exactly what we need today.


By Priscilla Pope-Levison

Reclaiming an Original Methodist Practice

When the Wesley brothers convened meetings, they always included an opportunity for people to share their struggles and hope in Christ.

By Jack Jackson

Three Words of Hope for the Church in Transition

As institutions are shaken to the core, these three New Testament words reveal “the essence of what it means to be the church.”

By Mark Wingfield

A Dentist and AME Elder Faces Cancer and Chemo in the Era of COVID

"To attain survivor status, you must first survive the treatment protocols."

By Letitia Williams Watford

The Church Exists to Evangelize

Evangelization involves our being agents of the Holy Spirit in helping people have a profound experience of Jesus and his love.

By Archbishop William E. Lori

Testimony in Action

The Power of Storytelling in Ministry

Jee Hae Song describes how testimony can start in childhood and grow to involve everyone in the church.

(Podcast published on Lewis Center for Church Leadership website)

Three Ways to Get to Know Your Neighbors

Intentional efforts to understand our neighbors can open our eyes to how God is at work in our communities.

By Paul Nixon

A Community Grows Its Way Out Of Poverty

A pastor in North Carolina has developed a farming and beekeeping operation that improves local health and helps train young people.

By Bridgette A. Lacy

Community Engagement and the Rural Church

Churches can do more to engage their communities—and the effort does not need to be flashy or expensive. It can be as simple as chopping wood.

By Allen T. Stanton

9 Strategies for Meeting People and Learning Their Needs

Street ministry is simply walking around where people are hanging out and inviting them people into conversation.

By Elizabeth Mae Magill

Recommended Reading

Tell It Like It Is

Lillian Daniel

Saying Is Believing: The Necessity of Testimony in Adolescent Spiritual Development

Amanda Drury

Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christian (The Practice of Faith Series Book 12)

Thomas G. Long

Models of Evangelism

Priscilla Pope-Levison

It’s My Testimony: A Devotional Journal for Women by Women

Lakeesha Browne

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