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12 Sep

September 12, 2025 |

The Discipline revision work that began late in 2024 has been completed and the newly revised US Discipline is now available as a pdf to view online or download to your device (more on that in a moment). 

The process started late in 2024 as a team of ministers and professors gathered to do some difficult work to help us more clearly define what we mean as United Brethren, when we talk about a church. That team took a deep dive into history, theology, and the bible to craft a definition of church that would be clear, while allowing freedom for new expressions of church. Their work yielded fourteen proposals which were presented to the national conference in July and voted upon after any amendements were made.

Since then, the document has been revised, reviewed and is now ready for download (and now we return to what I hinted at before). 

If you have visited ub.org to read previous versions of the Discipline, you would have seen a table of contents page with each chapter listed as a clickable link that would take you directly to a separate page containing that one chapter. You would also have seen a version of the discipline that you could download directly to your device.  Having both was extremely handy. 

However, with this revision we have opted to provide the downloadable resource only. But this change is not forever. In fact, we just launched a project this week that will result in a brand new website and provide a fresh viewing experience for visitors looking for information about the United Brethren Church and ministers looking for next steps in their licensing process. In the meantime, we will be consolidating information on our current site which may result in changes similar to this one with the Discipline document. 

10 Sep

September 10, 2025 |

Mt. Zion UB Church is seeking a passionate and spiritually grounded youth leader to disciple and mentor students in grades 6–12. This part-time position (approx. 30 hours per month) is ideal for someone who loves Jesus, connects well with teens, and desires to help the next generation grow in their faith and navigate life with biblical wisdom.

For a more detailed job description click here.

If you are interested in the position, contact Senior Pastor André Laird for more information.

 

11 Aug

August 11, 2025 |

We are excited to announce that the powerful and inspiring worship services from this year’s National Conference are now available to view online!

Whether you were with us in Fort Wayne and want to relive the moments that impacted you the most, or if you were not able to join us and want to experience them for the first time, we invite you to visit the National Conference event page to take them in. You will find all four services in their entirety, but each video also contains chapter markers to allow you to easily find the elements of each service you may be most interested in viewing.

These worship times are always a focal point of our time together at conference, and we hope they will be a source of encouragement and inspiration for you now.

Click to watch now.

30 Jul

July 30, 2025 |

This year at National Conference, Rob Wegner, our keynote speaker, along with Andy Sikora, our director of church multiplication, introduced us to The Movement System — a strategic training system to help churches reproduce at critical points of multiplication. If you missed those sessions or would like a refresher, they will be available soon.

As a follow up to those discussions, we are launching three catalysts for pastors and church leaders who are ready to take the next steps toward multiplication in one of three areas — reproducing disciples, reproducing leaders and reproducing churches.

Each catalyst is made up of…

  • Eight Sessions Over Two Months:  A focused, short-term commitment designed to build lasting disciple-making habits—without feeling like a semester-long course.
  • A Reverse-Classroom:  Engage 2 hours/week through a user-friendly online course with video teaching, readings, journaling, and practical exercises. Come ready to apply what you’re learning—personally and missionally (Luke 14:25–34).
  • Weekly Coaching Huddles:  Gather in small cohorts (max 20 people) for support, accountability, and coaching. You’ll experience the same reproducible model we’re training you to lead (Hebrews 10:25).
  • After the Catalyst:  We help you stay supported and challenged by connecting you with other pastors from our denomination through our Multipliers Network.

These catalysts are launching soon, so register now if you are interested in being part of one.

Learn more about The Movement System, the three catalysts that are kicking off soon and the dates and times for each on our Movement System Training page.

Questions about The Movement System, or about the catalysts being offered, can be directed to Andy Sikora.

15 Jul

July 15, 2025 |

The Grand Wayne Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana is full of energy as people begin to arrive for the 2025 United Brethren Nationsl Conference. It’s good to see so many pastors, delegates and UB families walking the familiar halls of the convention center and catching up on life and ministry since the last time they saw one another.

The conference officially kicks off this evening at 6:30 with worship service lead by Chris and Bethany Solyntjes from Renew Communities and featuring keynote speaker, Rob Wegner. If you are unable to join us in person for worship, you are invited to join us via livestream. This link will be available for every worship service this week — Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 6:30 pm and Friday at 9:00 am. Live streams will begin 5 minutes before each service with a welcome and conclude with an interview after service with our keynote speaker.

You can also keep an eye on our facebook page for photos and videos of the conference as it happens.

Are you ready? Let’s move!

10 Jul

July 10, 2025 |

As many of you prepare for National Conference next week, we wanted to make you aware of a few updates we have made to the downloadable reports, primarily dealing with the numbering of those reports. The document titled, List of Reports, is accurate and has the reports numbered correctly. However the reports they refer to have been numbered incorrectly until now. They are being corrected and will be re-uploaded by noon today.

One other change has been made to the Rules and Procedures page. The date has been changed in item 35 from 2022 to 2024.

We apologize for any confusion and inconvenience this may have caused, but we want to ensure we are all working from the same documents when we arrive for the business session next Wednesday morning.

10 Jun

June 10, 2025 |

 

On Wednesday, June 11 at 1:00 pm EDT, Bishop Todd Fetters will interview Rob Wegner, our keynote speaker for Tuesday and Wednesday nights at National Conference. This will be a great opportunity to get to know a little more about Rob, his family, and his passion for ministry. We will also ask Rob about a few ways our United Brethren family can pray for him as he prepares for the conference.

The interview will be streamed live on Facebook at 1:00 EDT. If you are unable to watch it live, it will remain on that page until conference.

National Conference registration is open until June 30, but the discounted hotel rooms being held for the conference expire in the next couple of days.

09 May

May 9, 2025 |

In order to help delegates prepare for conference, we are hosting a series of regional preview meetings. During these preview sessions, Bishop Fetters will share the proposals that will be presented during the business session at NC25. While no votes will be taken at these sessions, they do provide a space for more interaction and dialogue than would otherwise be possible at the national conference business session where the voting does take place.

The preview session packet is now available for download, and includes the following:

  • Nominating Committee Report (ELT and Bishop)
  • ELT Candidate Bios
  • Discipline Revision Proposals

The Discipline revision proposals primarily focus on the work of a task force enlisted by Bishop Fetters to better define church as described in the UB Discipline. The video linked below is the first in a series we will share leading up to conference related to this work. This first video explains more about why this task force was assembled, the process they followed, and the proposals they are making as a result of their work.

Click here to register for a preview session in your area.

Click here to register for National Conference.

30 Apr

April 30, 2025 |

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word… (2 Tim 4.1-2a)

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God calls people from every generation to lead his church.  While we trust God to be faithful for tomorrow as he has in the past, we can’t be passive. God calls us to partner with him in the calling, equipping and sending of Christian leaders to build the Church. This has been a key part of the United Brethren’s past and we long to make it an integral part of our future.

We invite you to join in this work.

In the month of May, we are inviting the United Brethren Church to pray for the next generation of Christian leaders. Pray on your own, with your family, and in your church and small group gatherings. There is a need for more pastors and leaders, and we know the first critical step to identifying those individuals is prayer.

Please join us.

What can you pray for?

  • Pray that God would continue to make his call into ministry clear to the next generation.
  • Pray that people would have the courage and faith to respond to God’s call.
  • Pray that the Church would help identify the call in people.
  • Pray that the Church would equip, train, and encourage those called into ministry.

Keep an eye on our Facebook page for video reminders and specific prayer prompts on Thursdays throughout the month.

Thanks for joining in this prayer focus for the month of May. We are excited to see how God moves!

Article submitted by:

Ryan Koch

Senior Pastor, Hopewell Church

 

09 Apr

April 9, 2025 |

Roger Reeck, a longtime United Brethren missionary serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators, passed away March 28, 2025, in San Antonio, Texas. A celebration of life will be held at 8:00 p.m. on April 21, 2025, at the Bethel Evangelical Education Center in La Ceiba, Honduras.

Roger and Marilyn Reeck met at Fort Wayne Bible College in Fort Wayne, Ind. Marilyn was born in Canada, but spent much of her childhood in Honduras, where her parents, Archie and Maisie Cameron, were United Brethren missionaries. Roger and Marilyn were married in 1971 in Honduras, and two weeks later began linguistic training to become Bible translators with Wycliffe.

Their first assignment was with the Zapotec language spoken in southern Mexico. There was no written language, so Roger crafted an alphabet, and then they taught the people to read in their own language. They spent 19 years on that project. Mark, the first Bible book to be translated, was published in 1981, and more books followed.

During those years in Mexico, four daughters were born to Roger and Marilyn. In 1990, the family moved to La Ceiba, Honduras, where they worked on the Garifuna Bible translation and could also care for Marilyn's aging parents. They returned to Mexico in 1999 for the dedication of the Zapotec New Testament. In 2002, back in Honduras, they dedicated the Garifuna Bible. In the years ahead, they also created a Garifuna version of the Jesus film, which was shown up and down the Caribbean coast, along with sundry other materials.

From 2006-2021, Roger and Marilyn served as translation consultants, starting with a project in Guinea Bissau, West Africa. That required many trips across the Atlantic. Other consulting projects opened up—in Mozambique, Belize, Venezuela, Brazil, Columbia, Surinam, Nicaragua, Trinidad, and Aruba. After Covid hit in March 2020, all consulting work was done via Zoom.

Today, tens of thousands of people can read the Bible in their own language because of Roger and Mariyn Reeck.

Instead of flowers, it is suggested that you consider donating to a future Bible translation project which was close to Roger's heart. Information can be found on the Everloved.com online obituary page.

(submitted by Steve Dennie)