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Sunday services: 9, 10:30 am Wednesday: Schedule 200 East 38th Street Marion, IN (765) 674-8541

About us: Welcome to College Wesleyan Church, where our doors are always wide open to you. Throughout our 110 years, we have been known as a place for genuine, compassionate and soundly scriptural teaching and ministry to people from around the world. We are "home" to people from diverse places and stations. We are committed to the teachings and mission of Jesus Christ. We are striving to become the kind of people and the kind of church that He envisioned—active in our witness and consistent in our faith—to serve this present age. So whether you're here with questions about the Christian faith or just looking to settle down in a solid and nurturing community. I am confident that you will find a home at College Church. Steve DeNeff Senior Pastor What we believe: • There is one God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. • Jesus Christ, the Son of God is the source of salvation, the Savior of all persons who put their faith in Him alone for eternal life. • Those who receive new life in Christ are called to be holy in character and conduct and can live this way only by being filled with the Lord's Spirit. • The Bible is God's inspired Word and it is the standard for our faith and actions. • God wants everyone to know Him as Savior and Lord. • The purpose of the church is to tell the world about Christ through worship, witness and loving deeds. (Click here for complete list of The Wesleyan Church's basic beliefs.) How we do that: Six strategies guide our ministry: Transformation: Helping God in changing lives and seeing true spiritual redemption Jesus changes lives. He restores people back to their original condition. We must offer more than forgiveness, but an actual break from the cycle that people are in so they are freed from their sins and from the effects those sins are having on their lives until Christ Jesus is "fully formed" in them. Discovery: Listening to the World and to the Word to find true needs & positive solutions We are called by Christ to serve the "least of these." We are to give a voice to the oppressed, the unborn, the persecuted and those marginalized by society. We long to building a culture that listens for the cultural injustices and hidden sins that create prisons for individuals and groups. Here we must join God's good work wherever it is happening. Pre-empting: Preventing the evil and causing the good in the future through action today We think of "the logical consequence of things done in the present time" and work with our eternal God to actually change the future by doing something different in the present. We overcome tomorrow's evil with today's good. We want to make a true difference in the world that prevents the plans of the enemy and advances the cause of Christ. Resourcing: Using the resources God gave us in all our circles of influence We provide solutions in the community and resource the best problem-solvers out there. We work to equip future leaders, often sending them around the world to influence the broader church. We are convinced that just meeting needs is not enough. we also must "resource people" along the lines of who God made us to be. God made us who we are as a congregation for a purpose and we want to align with his plan for using us. Including: Bringing those who are missing to the table It is the way of the world to separate, to emphasize distinctives (the ways in which we are different) out of fear that we will lose our identity if we give them up. But in Christ we come together out of a common need and a respect for the ways in which God has revealed Himself in the other person. When we include the poor, or the minority or the children who cannot read we do so, not with condescension, but because they have something of God in them that we will never see until we include them in our family. Belonging: Connecting people into a caring, biblical community We are not the Body of Christ as we ought to be until we have learned to love and to help each other belong to our family. We connect people caring community and value the relational side of holiness in biblical community. We are the family of God that mirrors the connection of the Trinity. We are interconnected as branches within the Vine. Who we are: College Wesleyan Church is a part of The Wesleyan Church. The Wesleyan Church is an evangelical, Protestant denomination. We offer the good news that faith in Jesus Christ makes possible a wonderful personal relationship with God, a holy life empowered by His Spirit for witness and service, and assurance of eternal life in heaven. Our name is in honor of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, whose emphasis on a life of faith, self-discipline, and perfect love is our example. (Click here for more information on the denomination.) Membership: Membership classes are offered throughout the year. (Click here for dates. Click here for membership application.)