Discipleship Journey

The journey from encountering Jesus to sharing Him with the world involves placing your life before God.

Jesus first disciples called themselves “Followers of the Way”. Discipleship begins with a call from Jesus to “come and follow me.”
This may be the most important thing we ever do.

The Discipleship Journey is a framework designed to help us model our lives after Jesus. The word ‘disciple’ comes from the Latin word “discipulus,” meaning “learner” or “apprentice.” As lifelong “learners,” we are seeking to grow and be changed by Jesus. This guide will provide tools to help you identify next steps you might want to take on the Discipleship Journey. It will help you determine where you are on your life journey and choose what’s best for you at any stage. Once you’ve discovered where you are now, you can choose from our ministries.

For more info, contact Susan McElya, Director of Discipleship,
with any questions you may have or information you may need regarding Discipleship Groups at smcelya@fumcpearland.org

Assessing Your Spiritual Life

Many of us as we begin a New Year take time to make resolutions. These can also be thought of as personal promises to improve ourselves by adopting good habits and/or changing bad behaviors or setting new goals.

This is a good time to assess where you are in your Spiritual life.

We offered some tools in 2025 to help you discover where you are in your Spiritual Life. You may have used these tools in 2025 or they may be new to you. It is important to regularly review if you are growing, moving backwards, or maybe you have hit a wall and are not progressing.

Assessment Tools

Discipleship Journey Online Self Assessment
Spiritual Health Reflection tool from ‘Practicing the Way’ study
Spiritual Gifts Inventory

We are called to use our gifts to serve one another. This is where we experience joy and growth in our spirituality! If you took the inventory how are you doing? Did you discover Gifts you didn't realize you had? Have you found ways to use your gifts to serve others? If you haven't taken the inventory NOW would be a good time to do this and set some goals for 2026.

For more info, contact Susan McElya, Director of Discipleship, at smcelya@fumcpearland.org with any questions you may have or information you may need regarding Discipleship opportunities.

Walk to Emmaus

The Walk to Emmaus develops Christian disciples and leaders by inspiring, challenging, and equipping active adult church members for Christian action in their homes, churches, workplaces, and communities. It also benefits less active members who are seeking to renew a relationship with God, grow spiritually, or discover firmer foundations for their lives.

Are you looking to grow spiritually? Do you want to understand the Christian faith more fully? Do you want to grow and learn more about being a disciple of Jesus? The Emmaus Walk is for you if you are looking to help build up the church in love and contribute to its ministry.

The weekend begins on Thursday evening and concludes late Sunday afternoon. Participants step out of the outside world for 72 hours. It is a time apart with God. Participants are asked to be fully attentive to the events of the weekend. No outside interruptions, remain for the entire weekend, and only emergency phone calls or text messages.

We are part of the Houston Bay Area Emmaus Community and Walks are held at the Lodge in Danbury. There is an upcoming Women’s Walk on October 16–19, 2025.

The Walk dates for 2026 are:

Men’s Walk | April 9-12, 2026
Women’s Walk | May 28-31, 2026
Men’s Walk | October 1-4, 2026
Women’s Walk | November 12-15, 2026

We have many church members who have attended a Walk to Emmaus weekend. For more information contact Susan McElya, Director of Discipleship. She will be happy to answer questions and put you in touch with others who have attended.

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