Many Waters District Leadership
Work in Progress with New District
District Lay Leaders
- Para 660 Criteria: Professing member of a Local Church, provide training of local church lay leaders, responsible for fostering awareness of the role of the laity both within the congregation and through their ministries in the home, workplace, community and world. Shall be elected to AC for not less than 4 years.
- Carol Crothers, Pleasant St UMC Waterville (2019)
- Rich Hughen (through 2020) Thornton Heights, Portland
- Sharon Merrill, Bolster’s Mills UMC, Harrison (2019) Associate District Lay Leader
District Leadership Team: Meets 3x, one in longer retreat & planning format, one calendar/coordination; one leadership development/nominations Convener: ______________
District Lay Servant Ministries Committee
- Para: 668 Criteria: Able to plan, supervise programs in the district, including Lay Servant Ministry and Certified Lay Ministry. Members include DLL, DS, and Instructor of LS courses.
- Anne Carter (Director para. 668),
- Anna Jean Alexander (CLM), Bolster’s Mills UMC, Harrison
- Claire Piddock, Readfield UMC, in CLM process
- Rev. Stephen Bascom,
- Ginifer Giddings (laity, certified candidate, North Pownal)
- Robert Olson, Church on the Cape UMC (Cape Porpoise)
- Cheryl Roberts pending disaffiliation decision
- Peter Rumery, Cornerstone UMC
- Karen L. Munson (DS)
Committee on the District Superintendency
- Para 669 Criteria: Membership should be - 11 members, including DLL, 2 persons appt. by DS, 2 laywomen, 2 laymen, 2 clergy, 2 alternatives. All laypersons shall be professing members active in a local church. At least three of the eleven shall be clergy and seven shall be laypersons. PURPOSE: shall be to support the DS in the oversight of the spiritual and temporal affairs of the church with special reference to the district where the DS has responsibilities.
- Designate subgroup as Parsonage Committee
Clergy:
- Rev. Kathleen Decker Szakas, Gardiner, Chairperson
- Rev. Elizabeth Bachelder Smith, Lisbon Falls
- Rev. Angela Rotherham, Wayne Community 2019
- Pastor Laura Church
Laity:
- Carol Crothers, MW LL
- Joel Irish, Auburn UMC (2016 LM)
- Karen Mitchell, DS appoint 2018
- Joan Humphrey
- Beverly Staples, lay woman, West Kennebunk
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District Congregational Development team work closely with location and building
Teams of 6-8 clergy and laity with very focused task to identify 2-3 churches each year that could come alive, move forward off plateau, with support. Reach out to churches. Become group that runs Possibilities Studies. Begin to identify churches at Legacy stage –partner with District Finance Team. Begin to identify areas for training, Resource Days. Work with District Building and Location Committee on potential new ministry starts
District Ministry Team:
Plans and Implements events: evangelical, worship, educational, fellowship so that churches and their leaders are inspired and equipped to seek and serve Christ with excellence.
District Finance Team: Mission Share Relief monitoring, 1-2 Equitable Compensation monitor
- _____________ Chair
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Skip Young
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Aaron Chrosfowsky
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District Board of Church Location and Building
Clergy Laymen Laywomen
Ned Crockett (clergy) Larry Perkins Carol Johnson
Ed Bove (clergy) Les Priest
TBD (clergy) Brian Church
Steve Hill
Tony Landsperg
Marc Chaput
District Committee on Ordained Ministry
- Para 666 At least 3 professing members of local churches, a representative from Board of Ordained Ministry; District Superintendent, at least 6 other clergy – elders & deacons, a deacon or elder age 35 or younger, an associate member, and one local pastor who has completed Course of Study.
Laity Elders Deacon or Local pastor
Dan Hall Thom Blackstone (Chair, BOM) YES Lynn Briggs, LLP (1 yr)
Sue Spaulding, (reg team) Sharon Lovejoy (reg team)
Ellen Jackson, Portland Annie Baker Streevy (elder under 35)
Noni Prince, CLM Taeseob Cho, Portland
TBD Ho Soon Han, Cape Porpoise (1 yr)BOM)
Sharon Miesel, Berwick (1 yr) Wes Palmer, Wells
UMC Related Ministries within Many Waters:
- United Methodist Economic Ministry Board: Dan Dolan (interim President)
- Kents Hill School Chaplain: Rev. Myung eun Park
- Empire Grove: Rev. Stan Tanner
- Maine Wesleyan Board: Alane O’Connor, Pamela Gleason Bird, Mary Jernigan, Nancy Russell, Karen Munson, Joel Munson
- Camp Mechuwana Site Committee: Amy Story