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Host Kerry Wood has a conversation with Shane Bishop about the importance of falling in love with Jesus and the implications and applications of that. Evangelism should not be a "dirty" word or a fearful one. Instead, relying on the power of the Holy Spirit, we can proclaim Jesus Christ into our communities.

Shane is pastor of Christ Church in Fairview Heights, Illinois. When he arrived there in 1997, they worshiped around 200 people. Today, the church has more than 3000 weekly attendees. Yet, Shane doesn't claim any credit for this. He humbly submits that this was all a God action that he was blessed to become part of.

You will be inspired to expand your own evangelistic efforts if you listen to the Holy Spirit as you listen to this episode!

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The Annual Conference session for North Carolina Global Methodists was recently held in Winston-Salem, NC. Those who have bad tastes in their mouths for other annual conference sessions in the past are in for a great surprise: Global Methodist Annual Conferences are movements of the Holy Spirit!

In this episode, Kerry Wood talks with some of the people being ordained, some pastors with long ministries, some who've just arrived in North Carolina, and all of them have praise stories worth hearing!

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Contributors to this episode (in order of appearance):

Shannon Medlin, Connie Stutts, John Woods, George Gooche, Shelby Gilbert, Walt Amos, Andreas Kjernald, David Hornberger, Rodney Burton, Jason Guyer, Van Heath, Jo & Brian Simmons, Robert "Bob" Ray, Keith Lawson, Steve Parker, Patrick Whaley, and Rueben Rinker.

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David Banks serves as the Conference Superintendent and Kari Howard is the Associate Conference Superintendent. Together, they provide effective administrative, connectional and spiritual leadership to the North Carolina Conference on a daily basis. Today, they share their stories of faith, the work of God in the formation of our NC Conference, and the power of the Holy Spirit as we come together for the Annual Conference session in Winston-Salem, June 25-28, 2025.

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