The 2024 SEJ Conference was a mixture of worship and business from Wednesday, July 10 through Friday, July 12.
On Wednesday, July 10, the body approved a reduction from 13 to 10 episcopal area, heard a State of the Church report from Bishop Ken Carter, and a report from the Racial Bias Task Force.
On Thursday, July 11, the Committee on Episcopacy shared the new names of the ten SEJ Episcopal Areas and episcopal assignments for the 2025-2028 quadrennium. The assignments are as follows:
- Alabama-Panhandle Area (Alabama-West Florida and North Alabama Conferences) Bishop L. Jonathan Holston
- Florida Area -Bishop Tom Berlin
- Georgia Area (North Georgia and South Georgia Annual Conference)- Bishop Robin Dease
- Holston Area jointly with an Annual Conference in the NEJ -Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett
- Kentucky-Tennessee Area (Kentucky, Central Appalachian Missionary, and Tennessee-Western Kentucky) -Bishop David Graves
- Mississippi Area -Bishop Sharma Lewis
- North Carolina Area -Bishop Connie Shelton
- South Carolina Area -Bishop Leonard Fairley
- Virginia Area -Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson
- Western North Carolina Area -Bishop Ken Carter
The body also approved a $1.3 million budget for the 2025-2028 quadrennium. This is a 12.3 percent decrease from the 2021-2024 budget. Find full reports (Daily Christian Advocate (DCA)) from the SEJ session here: https://www.sejumc.org/sejumc2024.
The SEJ Conference finalizes the morning of July 12 starting with Closing Worship at 9 a.m.