by Brenda Capen | Nov 3, 2022 | News, SEJ 2022, Virginia News
By Jessica Brodie LAKE JUNALUSKA, North Carolina—It took the entire afternoon and into the evening, but on the 25th ballot of the 2022 session, the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference elected South Carolina’s Dr. Robin Dease as its third and final bishop. Dease’s...
by Brenda Capen | Nov 3, 2022 | News, SEJ 2022, Virginia News
By Jessica Brodie LAKE JUNALUSKA, North Carolina – Nov. 3, 2022—Day Two of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference started with much hope there would be the third and final episcopal election that morning. But after two invalid votes and the withdrawal from...
by Brenda Capen | Nov 3, 2022 | News, SEJ 2022, Virginia News
By Jessica Brodie LAKE JUNALUSKA, North Carolina (Nov. 2, 2022)—SEJ elected Dr. Connie Shelton as its second bishop late Wednesday, ending a day filled with 12 ballots, passage of a $1.5 million jurisdictional budget, committee reports and a bit of contention over...
by Brenda Capen | Nov 2, 2022 | News, SEJ 2022, Virginia News
By Jessica Brodie LAKE JUNALUSKA, North Carolina—“We have an election.” With those words from Bishop David Graves, the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference welcomed its first episcopal election of the 2022 session, announcing Tom Berlin as the first-elected bishop....
by Brenda Capen | Nov 2, 2022 | News, SEJ 2022, Virginia News
By Heather Hahn Contributions by Madeline Pillow White Nov. 2, 2022 | LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. (UM News) The Rev. Thomas M. Berlin, lead pastor of Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon, Virginia, has been elected as bishop in The United Methodist Church’s Southeastern...
