Wanck, Slone preachers for Annual Conference
Bishop Frank J. Beard has announced that the Rev. Sarah Beth Wanck will be the Memorial Service preacher Thursday evening at Annual Conference and that the Rev. Jim Slone has been selected as the preacher for the Retirees' Recognition Service on Friday morning.
The Annual Conference will get underway at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 7, with workshops and conclude by noon on Saturday, June 9 following the Service of Ordination.
At 1 p.m., the Thursday afternoon agenda includes an opening worship service with Bishop Beard preaching and installing new District Superintendents Stan Irvin and James Barnett in the Cache and Vermilion River districts. Those districts will then plan welcoming events in the fall but the entire conference will celebrate the appointments and assignments of these new conference superintendents.
At 2 p.m., clergy and laity will hold their respective sessions with laity in Halls B and C and clergy in the Grand Ballroom on the fourth floor. The full session will reconvene at 4 p.m. and work until the supper break at 5:30 p.m. The Memorial Service is slated for 7 p.m.
The entire Annual Conference schedule is still being finalized and will be published to a Sched app which will be accessible to everyone. The Sched app also allows for last-minute changes that are pushed out to everyone who is using it.