Tuesday, June 8, 2010

2010 Retirees

Retirees: The Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of The United Methodist Church honored the service of nineteen retiring pastors – representing a total of 540 years of ministry - at the Retiree Service on the evening of Friday, May 21, 2010 at Annual Conference.

The service began as Bishop Peggy Johnson invited those to be ordained and commissioned for ministerial orders to come forward and asked them the Historic Questions. Bishop Johnson welcomed the retiring pastors. As a symbolic transfer of the mantle of ministry from the retirees to the new ordinands, Rev. Richard Conner "yoked" Rev. Wendy Orzolek with a red stole. The service concluded as retiring pastors annointed and prayed with the new ordinands.

Bishop Peggy A. Johnson announces the following appointments, effective July 1, 2010, except as noted:

Richard H. Andrews - from Birdsboro: Focht Memorial UMC to retirement

Richard W. Conner - from Manheim: Salem UMC to retirement

Jan S. Edwards -- from Leave of Absence to retirement

David P. Felker - from Effort UMC to retirement

Clyde S. Flaherty - from Elam UMC to retirement

Charlene L. Gaspar - from Incapacity Leave to retirement

Daniel G. Herner - from Lebanon: Covenant UMC to retirement

Kent E. Kroehler - from Lancaster: First UMC to retirement

Bruce Lefever - from Manheim Township: Faith UMC to retirement

Lee F. Michaels - from Incapacity Leave to retirement

Martin S. Morgan, Jr. - from Extension Ministry, Chaplain, US Air Force to retirement

Gwinyai Muzorewa - from New London UMC to retirement (effective Sept. 1, 2009)

J. Wayne Pratt - from Paradise Valley: Keokee Chapel UMC and Wooddale UMC to retirement

Steven W. Rodgers - from Leave of Absence to retirement

Rodney H. Shearer - from Kochenderfers UMC to retirement

Carole Ann Wood - from Stroudsburg: Faith UMC to retirement (effective Jan. 31, 2010)

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