They are already the latest citizen bishop of one’s Western New york Meeting of the Joined Methodist Church

Kenneth H. Carter, Jr.

Kenneth H. Carter, Jr. Along with the Closet, he provides pastoral and you will management management to over 1000 congregations, fresh phrases out-of church, campus ministries, and outreach initiatives into the an enthusiastic episcopal area you to offers over the 49 west counties of your own state. Bishop Carter supported just like the chairman of one’s Council out-of Bishops of one’s Joined Methodist Church out-of 2018-2020, in which he is actually among around three moderators of your own Percentage on the a way Forward, out-of 2016 so you’re able to 2018. Bishop Carter ‚s the author of to try to get guides, of late good memoir, Goodness Make a way (Abingdon, 2021). His editorials keeps appeared in the latest Charlotte Observer, Greensboro Information and Checklist, and you may Winston-Salem Journal,  and his responses into the Christianity in the united states has actually appeared regarding Nyc Minutes, Washington Post, Wall structure Street Diary, La Minutes, as well as on Federal Personal Radio.

Bishop Carter features preached inside camp group meetings, prisons and you will jails, school and college chapels, synagogues, megachurches and you can family church buildings, and also in twenty places toward four continents. His ministry during the Providence United Methodist Church during the Charlotte try explained by Western Religious Historian Diana Butler Trout inside her book, Christianity throughout You. Bishop Carters higher expect brand new church would be the fact she’s going to discover an enthusiastic orthodox Religious trust that gives the fresh drastically comprehensive sophistication of Jesus to some one, and at the same time calls all of the enthusiast regarding God in order to interior holiness, missional mercy, justice rooted in the latest gospel and you may a hopeful tale from sales. He trip generally across the meeting, preaching from inside the regional church buildings and you can promising lay and you will clergy frontrunners. Bishop Carter and his awesome wife Pam have been enjoys offered while the a keen ordained older regarding the United Methodist Chapel, of late when you look at the crisis recovery, and you can this lady has a-deep wedding during the Gods goal in Haiti.

New Carters live-in Charlotte, New york, and you can think it over a great true blessing in order to suffice people off Western New york.

Beam W. Chamberlain, Jr.

He was born for the Pomona, Ca, gone together with his missionary mothers to help you Jamaica as he try seven years of age. The guy finished which have B.A. and you can Th.B. level from Joined Wesleyan College for the Dato lokale enslige kvinner mГёtes og hilser Allentown, Pennsylvania, and of Duke School Divinity College, Durham, Vermont, into Meters.Div. training (magna sperm laude) and you will learnt a year at the Methodist Theological University within the Ohio. The guy gotten D.D. values from Shenandoah University and you can Liberia Methodist University. Before his election for the episcopacy inside 1996 by Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference, the guy given new Salvation Army for the a good Trenton, New jersey, ghetto, just like the a beneficial missionary/ministerial school dominant inside the Zambia, Africa, as member pastor otherwise pastor away from outlying and you will town churches once the well given that a good 3400-member congregation regarding Virginia Fulfilling for the a space area off Washington, DC. Their history appointment prior to election is actually since the Region Superintendent of your own 30,000+ Richmond Area of the Virginia Fulfilling. He’s got considering conference and jurisdictional leaders, particularly in areas off in the world missions, evangelism, and you may knowledge. Following 7 ages just like the bishop of one’s Holston Conference, he already functions as unique assistant toward chairman within Wesley Theological Seminary in the Washington, DC, and also as Bishop-in-Household in the Shenandoah School in Winchester, Virginia. Ray and you may Martha has about three youngsters, Russell, , and you will six grandkids.

Sharon Brown Christopher

Bishop Sharon A. Brownish Christopher is actually a retired Bishop of the Joined Methodist Chapel in which she offered off 1988-2008.  Within the 2002, she became the original women President of the Council away from Bishops to help you serve a single-seasons name. ————————

A native out-of Corpus Christi, Colorado, this woman is a graduate off Southwest College or university, Georgetown, Texas, and also a master out-of Divinity training away from Perkins College or university off Theology, Dallas.

She is actually ordained an elder throughout the Wisconsin Conference inside the 1972, and you will offered due to the fact Movie director regarding Religious Degree, up coming user pastor, in the beginning United Methodist Church, Appleton; she served at the Butler and you will Germantown: Calvary United Methodist Church buildings; and you may Aldersgate Joined Methodist Church, Milwaukee, prior to using five-and-one-half years because District Superintendent of your Eastern District. She turned new assistant so you’re able to Bishop David Lawson into the January, 1986. For the July 1988, is actually opted on the episcopacy by the North Main Jurisdictional Meeting. Their unique very first project in that role first started during the Sep 1988 just like the Resident Bishop of your Minnesota City. When you look at the 1996, she is assigned to new Illinois Town. She actually is partnered on Reverend Charles Age. Logsdon Christopher. Inside their friends they have a few college students, Jeffrey Charles along with his lover y Logsdon Warner, their unique spouse, Richard, as well as their young man, Max.