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Center for Wesleyan-Holiness Formation

The Center for Wesleyan-Holiness Formation serves pastors, laypersons, churches, students and scholars by advancing and empowering scholarship, ministry and the creation of resources that supports formation in the Wesleyan-holiness tradition. Housed in Trevecca’s Millard Reed School of Theology and Christian Ministry, the center is supported by a network of alumni and friends.

Resources

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Epworth Table Podcast

Epworth’s kitchen table was a place where people would gather to learn and grow. This podcast offers a seat at a similar table, where you can listen in, find resources, learn and grow.

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Pastoral Development Fellowships

Pastoral development fellowships offer active clergy an opportunity to retreat, renew and develop new resources.

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Pastoral Development Connection

The Pastoral Development Connection is a monthly webinar-style gathering where pastors and leaders can connect with one another and hear from Trevecca faculty about constructive approaches to issues facing the local church.

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Pastors Day on the Hill

MARCH 26, 2026

Join an interactive conversation that brings leading voices into conversation with today’s vital issues in ministry. Pastors Day on the Hill is open to all pastors, church leaders, students, and ministry volunteers.

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Keynote Guest

This year’s special guest is Dr. Richard Beck of Abilene Christian University, a recognized expert on how various psychological forces shape Christian life and ministry. His books include The Shape of Joy: The Transformative Power of Moving Beyond Yourself, Stranger God: Meeting Jesus in Disguise, and Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. Our time together will explore the topics of joy, enchantment, and hospitality, with a particular focus on how contemporary ministry can learn and grow in these areas.

What to Expect

A day of equipping and exploration that goes beyond typical ministry training days. Pastors Day on the Hill draws upon the deep theological resources of the Wesleyan-holiness tradition for the sake of helping ministry leaders imagine faithful and effective ways of engaging our cultural moment. You can expect to interact with leading thinkers and authors, build friendships with partners in ministry, and discover new insights you can use in your ministry context.

Schedule

9:30 – University Chapel: Joy
10:30 – Session 1: Reenchanting Ministry in a Secular Age
12:00 – Lunch (Included in registration)
1:30 – Session 2: Holy Hospitality
3:00 – Panel Discussion: Sanctifying Disgust and Holy Ministry
4:00 – Dismissal (Pastors are invited to join the Festival of Homiletics and hear student preachers deliver sermons)

Registration

$50/person (lunch included)
 $20/person live stream

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For questions, please email cwhf@trevecca.edu.

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Meet the Director

Dr. Tim Gaines serves as associate professor of religion and director of the Master of Arts program in theology and biblical studies, teaching in the areas of systematic theology, ethics, Wesleyan-holiness theology and Christian tradition. He is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene, serves as a pastor at Trevecca Community Church and is a frequent speaker at churches, camps and conferences.