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Written: 5/21/2008 Rev. Cindy Watson was elected as Jurisdictional Conference delegate and alternate to General Conference. She is the senior pastor at West Heights United Methodist Church in Wichita. Raised in Wichita, Watson has an undergraduate degree from Friends University and a master of divinity degree from Sa...
Written: 5/21/2008 Beth Wilke was elected by lay members of the Kansas West Conference as lay delegate to the 2008 Jurisdictional Conference and an alternate delegate to General Conference. She was born in Winfield and is a graduate of Southwestern College. She has been director of ministries at First United Methodis...
Written: 5/21/2008 By Lisa Elliott DiehlMarketing and Communications directorRev. Denise Sawyer drove to Fort Worth to work in the General Commission on Religion and Race's exhibit at the 2008 United Methodist General Conference. "Journey to Inclusiveness of the United Methodist Church" told the story of racial and g...
Written: 5/21/2008 By Lisa Elliott DiehlMarketing and Communications directorKansas Area Bishop Scott Jones issued a challenge April 26 to the delegations from the Memphis, North Carolina and California-Pacific annual conferences to out-bid the Kansas delegation for a basketball used to celebrate the "Nothing But...
Written: 5/21/2008 By Lisa Elliott DiehlMarketing and Communications directorFirst-time General Conference delegates Kim Moore and Rev. Lance Carrithers found themselves impressed by the global breadth of the United Methodist Church. "As somebody who has always been proud of being a United Methodist, I am just filled...
Written: 4/26/2008 By Deborah White* FORT WORTH, Texas (UMNS)--Members of 25,000 rural United Methodist churches are "planting seeds of hope in every place," leaders of Town & Country Ministries emphasized during a Rural Life Celebration April 26 at the 2008 General Conference. About 100 voluntee...
Written: 4/22/2008 Rev. Nathan Stanton was elected by clergy of the Kansas West Conference as clergy delegate to Jurisdictional Conference and alternate to General Conference. Stanton was born in Salina. He attended college at Kansas Wesleyan University and earned his Master of Divinity from Saint Paul School of Theo...
Written: 3/24/2008 Rev. Dennis Livingston was elected by clergy members of the Kansas West Conference as a delegate to the 2008 Jurisdictional Conference and alternate clergy delegate to General Conference. Livingston has served the Ulysses United Methodist Church in southwestern Kansas as its pastor since 2002. Born...
Written: 3/24/2008 Rebecca Nolte was elected as a lay delegate to the 2008 Jurisdictional Conference and alternate lay delegate to the 2008 General Conference. She is the only youth delegate elected to represent the Kansas West Conference. Nolte has served as a youth member to the Kansas West Annual Conference. She a...
Written: 1/25/2008 By Lisa Elliott DiehlMarketing and Communications directorRev. Cheryl Jefferson Bell said she sees her candidacy for the United Methodist episcopacy as an adventure. “I know that I’m going to grow through [this experience],” Bell said. “I know I’m going to be a better person for going through this....
Written: 12/18/2007 Mollie Haberer was elected as the third lay delegate to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church by lay members of the 2007 Kansas West Annual Conference. She has served as an alternate or delegate to General and Jurisdictional conferences three times. Haberer, a member of Paradise Un...
Episcopal endorsements announcement letter
Written: 12/4/2007 Rev. Dr. Mark Conard was elected second clergy delegate to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church by clergy members of the Kansas West Conference. He previously has participated in General and Jurisdictional Conference in 1996, 2000 and 2004. He received his Master of Divinity degr...
Written: 12/4/2007 Penney Schwab is the second elected lay delegate to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church by the laity of the Kansas West Conference. She has been a member of Copeland United Methodist Church since 1969. She is married to Don Schwab and has three children, Patrick, Michael and Rebec...
Written: 10/18/2007 HUTCHINSON—Rev. Pat Ault-Duell was elected as the first clergy delegate to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church by the clergy members at the 2007 Kansas West Annual Conference. She is leading the Kansas West Delegation along with Dixie Brewster, the first-elected lay delegate....
Written: 7/18/2007 By Lisa Elliott DiehlMarketing and Communications directorThe 2007 Kansas West Annual Conference elected clergy and lay delegates to the 2008 General and Jurisdictional conferences at its annual meeting May 23 -25 in Hutchinson. The clergy took 19 ballots to elect their delegation. Rev. Pat Ault-Du...
Delegates consider voting rights, ministry status
Written: 5/15/2004 By Lisa Elliott DiehlConnection editor Lay delegate Brian Sutton had an up-close look at how the legislative process works as leader of a sub-subcommittee of the Global Ministries Legislative Committee. Sutton led the AIDS and Missions sub-subcommittee. “We had a woman from Russia, a woman from B...
Written: 5/15/2004 By Lisa Elliott DiehlConnection editor Rev. Cheryl Bell had a big day April 30. It was her birthday, she was able to spend it with three relatives who have been close to her for years, and her family was recognized for sticking with the Methodist denomination through one of its darkest periods—the ...
Written: 5/15/2004 By Lisa Elliott DiehlConnection editor Dixie Brewster, head of the Kansas West General Conference delegation, not only led a sub-committee, she also presented the first two petitions adopted at the 2004 General Conference, April 27 through May 7 in Pittsburgh. “It made me nervous to present the ve... |
