New Pastoral Appointments

Detroit Conference:

New this week (March 1, 2010):

Margery H. Host, Escanaba: First UMC, effective 7/1/10; she is serving Springville UMC

Jeremy P. Africa, Goodrich UMC, effective 7/1/10; he is serving as associate pastor at Midland First UMC
John D. Bailey, Clio Bethany UMC, effective 7/1/10; is serving Gaines/Duffield UMCs
Carl T. Gladstone Director of Youth Leaders Initiative (1/2 time) and North Central Jurisdictional Coordinator of Youth and Young Adult Ministries (1/2 time), effective 1/1/10; he has been serving as the Director of the Young Leaders Initiative
Daniel Gonder, Fairgrove/Watrousville UMCs as local pastor, effective 3/1/10; he has been serving Fairgrove UMC
Jon W. Gougeon, Reese UMC, effective 3/1/10; he has been serving Sterling/Alger/Garfield UMCs
Janet L. Luchs, Petersburg/LaSalle: Zion UMCs, effective 1/1/10; she has been serving LaSalle: Zion UMC
Eric D. Kieb, Roscommon: Good Shepherd of the North UMC, effective 7/1/10; he is currently serving Negaunee Mitchell UMC
Beverly L. Marr, Durand First UMC, effective 7/1/10; she is serving at Lincoln Community UMC
Robert A. Miller, Livingston Circuit: Plainfield/Trinity UMCs, effective 1/1/10; this is his first appointment
James A. Payne, Sterling/Alger/Garfield UMCs, effective 3/1/10; he has been serving Watrousville UMC
Cathy L. Rafferty, Chelsea Retirement Home as chaplain, effective 2/24/10; she has been serving as chaplain at Clark Retirement Home (West Michigan Conference)
Thomas M. Sayers, Howarth and Paint Creek UMCs as pastor, effective 11/16/09; he has been serving as a DSA at the Howarth and Paint Creek UMCs

West Michigan Conference:

New this week (March 9, 2010):

Barbara Fay, Frankfort/Elberta UMCs, effective 7/1/10; she is serving as associate pastor at Plainwell First UMC

John W. Boley, Kalamazoo: First UMC, effective 7/1/10; he has been serving as pastor at Mt. Pleasant: First UMC
Patricia L. Brook, Hillsdale UMC, effective 7/1/10; she is serving at Marne UMC
Kathy E. Brown, Plainwell: First UMC, effective 7/1/10; she has been serving as pastor at Hastings: First UMC
Martin T. Cobb, Litchfield/Quincy UMCs, effective 7/1/10; he is currently serving as pastor at Old Mission Peninsula UMC
Gregory P. Culver, Charlevoix UMC, effective 7/1/10; he is serving Frankfort/Elberta UMCs
Alice Fleming Townley, Okemos Presbyterian Church (extension ministry), effective 2/1/10; she has been on family LOA
Cara Weiler, Kalamazoo: Sunnyside UMC (1/4) and Southwest Michigan Children's Trauma Assessment Center (1/2) as provisional deacon, effective 11/18/09