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Welcome to Wesley!

What is Wesley?

Maybe you saw an ad in The Chronicle or maybe you got a letter over the summer. Perhaps you’ve found yourself the recipient of interesting emails or intriguing Facebook notifications. The name is around Duke and you probably heard it before you ever arrived on campus for orientation.

Wesley…Wesley…Wesley

Who is the ubiquitous person? Has anyone ever met her? Or is it him? What does he do? Or is it she? Actually, it’s WE. We are the Wesley Fellowship, a group of students united in the common pursuit of exploring and deepening our Christian faith. While that may not sound particularly demanding, the ways we go about it are. Christian practices like hospitality and accountability call us simultaneously to be more than any one of us could be standing alone. And then tenting together for six weeks tests the limits of our theory! Practices like forgiveness and reconciliation instruct us that power and control are detrimental
to the world. And then opportunities like break team trips to Miami, DC, or Haiti show us the Church at work ministering to people struggling with immigration issues, facing urban poverty, and engaging global health—all activities that are wonderfully out of control. Other ideals like peace, justice, discernment, prayer, and sacrament impact our lives and shape us in ways that will only become more relevant as the years go by.

So, what is Wesley? We’re a group sponsored by the United Methodist Church, but anyone pursuing a deeper faith should join us. Our faith is Christian, but we don’t have all the answers and especially welcome those willing to ask the hard questions. We worship together each Wednesday afternoon and Sunday evening, but in the meantime we use numerous other occasions for fellowship, service, and growth. This newsletter is chock full of points of contact with Wesley. Find a topic or activity that interests you and come meet Wesley.

Oh, and by the way, John Wesley was an Anglican priest from the Eighteenth Century who founded The Methodist Church. We borrowed his name…