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Food 4 Thought Goes on Summer Break
Office hours and staff schedule in July
Church Administrator Ken Schoon will be working remotely July 22-25 while visiting and assisting family. The office will be staffed by our volunteers, although our hours may be abbreviated. Please email office@lakemerrittumc.org and schedule an appointment if you need to stop by the office. Music Director Jim Meredith will be off from July 21-28. Ellen St. Thomas will be our guest accompanist.
California-Nevada Conference welcomes new bishop Sept 1st
Bishop Sandra K. Olewine, elected to the episcopacy on July 12th at the 2024 Western Jurisdiction Conference of the United Methodist Church, has been assigned to the California-Nevada Conference beginning September 1st. She currently serves as assistant to the bishop in the California-Pacific Conference. She comes to us with many years of experience as a pastoral leader in a variety of settings, including serving as a District Superintendent (2021-2024), senior pastor of Pasadena First UMC (2014-2021), United Methodist Global Ministries liaison to Jerusalem (1996-2006), and associate pastor at Los Angeles Holman UMC (1990-1995) under the leadership of renowned civil rights leader Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., who passed away last month. You can read more about Bishop Olewine here on the Western Jurisdiction’s website.
Bishop Olewine was the second bishop elected at the July 10-13 meeting, after the California-Nevada Conference’s own Rev. Dr. Kristin Stoneking, United Methodist Studies professor at the Pacific School of Religion, who has been assigned to the Mountain Sky Conference. More news and information from the 2024 WJ Conference may be found here.
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