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Keith Drury (1945 – April 7, 2024) was a pastor, denominational leader, and eventually a professor of theology and ministry at Indiana Wesleyan University. [1] Drury spent more than twenty years (1971-1988, 1990-1996) in denominational leadership for the Wesleyan Church establishing key denominational programs of spiritual formation especially for children and youth.
John was born to Keith Drury and Sharon Bailey Drury, both pastors in the Pilgrim Holiness Church and later the Wesleyan Church after its merger with The Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1968. John is the youngest of two sons.
The Wesleyan Holiness Consortium aims to guide efforts and projects focused on holiness in the 21st century for pastors, unity within and among the participating churches, a holiness voice to the broader church, and the importance of holiness in the future mission of the church. [2]
The Wesleyan Church, also known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church and Wesleyan Holiness Church depending on the region, is a United States-based Christian denomination with congregations across North America, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Indonesia, and Australia.
Wesley Seminary is the first officially affiliated seminary in the history of the Wesleyan Church, which does not currently require pastors to hold a seminary degree for ordination. Currently, only about 15 percent of Wesleyan pastors have seminary degrees. Denominational leaders hope the creation of Wesley Seminary will double that number. [3]
The Church of the Nazarene, the Wesleyan Church, and the Free Methodist Church were the largest Wesleyan-Evangelical Holiness bodies as of 2015. Talks of a merger were tabled, [ 97 ] but new cooperatives such as the Global Wesleyan Alliance were formed as the result of inter-denominational meetings.
The National Association of Wesleyan Evangelicals is a Methodist network of churches and ministers aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is based in the Southern United States and was organized by W. Laurens Hudson, a Methodist preacher who was educated at Asbury Theological Seminary .
The Church of the Nazarene is a Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism.Formed in the early 1900s in Texas, the denomination is now headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas.