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What’s Your Voting Plan?

What’s Your Voting Plan?

You surely know Election Day is approaching. I couldn’t begin to count the number of pleas for campaign donations and campaign attack ads that increasingly intrude into every hour of every day. As we look ahead to Election Day, I’m guessing most of us are mostly...

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Homecoming Invitation

Homecoming Invitation

Homecoming weekend is a wonderful time to come back to a place that holds memories—and to see what’s happening now!   This Sunday, we invite all of our Wesley students, alumni, and Collegiate/Wesley friends to join us for worship at 10:00 a.m. and stay afterward for a...

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Sunday PRIDE 2026

Sunday PRIDE 2026

As you've heard, we’re MOVING our worship for Sunday, October 11 to the ISU Memorial Union, where we'll join a number of Ames faith communities in a combined Sunday Pride worship service. Our schedule for that day at Collegiate/Wesley is as follows: 8:45-9:30 Sunday...

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Waffles and the Word

Waffles and the Word

A couple of weeks ago, we kicked off another Bible study for college students! The students chose to meet at 9:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning! Great! A 9:00 a.m. bible study seems like a perfectly good reason to have waffles! As our team has been cleaning and...

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Moving the Needle

Moving the Needle

This summer you heard a lot from me about the AMOS Convention on August 30 and our goal of showing up together. We had set an ambitious goal: 60 people from Collegiate/Wesley. We didn’t quite make it. We showed up with 50 people. And I am calling that a huge win,...

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I Got Me Some Black Jesus!

I Got Me Some Black Jesus!

Yesterday was Club Fest at Iowa State University! We were in the MU, clear in the back, right in themiddle of the long row of tables. About as far back as you could get and still be in the building! We were in the same “neighborhood” for Welcome Fest. By the time some...

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