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...
by Brenda Capen | Nov 1, 2022 | News, Virginia News
The Center for Clergy Excellence is excited to announce that the Rev. Lyn Harding will be joining the staff as the Program and Administrative Coordinator. Harding was ordained Deacon in Full Connection in 2013. She has served in the local church at Reveille, Shady...
by Brenda Capen | Oct 29, 2022 | AC 2022 News, AC 2022 October, News, Virginia News
Two called special Annual Conference sessions were held on Oct. 29, 2022. The first session passed three resolutions that closed three local churches under Paragraph 2549 of the 2016 Book of Discipline. The three churches that closed are New Hope UMC, Rocky Mount, VA,...
by Brenda Capen | Oct 24, 2022 | AC 2022 News, AC 2022 October, AC2022, News, Virginia News
October 24, 2022 Please note that the agenda for the October 29, 2022, 9:30 a.m. called Annual Conference on church disaffiliations under Paragraph 2553 has been slightly modified. Following questions raised by a member of the Annual Conference, the Virginia Annual...