Steven Wild elected President of the Methodist Conference

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Steven Wild

Steven Wild, a Rochdale born minister, has been elected as the President of the Methodist Conference for the upcoming year.

Speaking about his election, Revd Wild said: “This is a huge honour and privilege to serve in this post. It's a deep honour. The first thing I want to do publicly is to thank Almighty God for his great grace and faithfulness to me.

“I’m thrilled to be serving this year with Dr Jill Barber, a woman full of Christ and exceptionally gifted as our Vice President. We share the theme together of 'Mission and Heritage'.

Revd Wild lived in Rochdale until he was 21 and has served over fifteen years in the circuit ministry.

At his inaugural address on Saturday (27 June), at the Conference in Southport, Revd Wild urged the church to ‘take God seriously’ and put evangelism back on the agenda.

During his address, Revd Wild challenged each Methodist church in Britain to aim to bring just one person to faith in the coming year, saying: “Let’s take God seriously. I want to help us in the task of evangelism, to put mission on the agenda and give our churches an aim to win a person for Christ.

“We cannot sit back in complacency,” he added. “We have a massive Kingdom of God task. I'm wanting this year to challenge each church to bring one person to faith - to make one new member this next year, let’s make bringing people to faith the main point, we don't do it alone. The unconditional love of Jesus is our motivation.”