Methodist churches get new pastors
Eighty-two United Methodist churches in the western two-thirds of Kansas, including three in the readership area of the Marion County Record, have new pastors as of Tuesday.
In the Peabody-Summit pastorate will be Linda Willey, coming from South Hutchinson.
In the Florence-Aulne pastorate will be Mark L. Moore, coming from Abilene's Emmanuel UMC, where he was an associate pastor.
Serving the Burns-Cassoday pastorate will be James Bush from Halstead.
The former Peabody-Summit pastor, David Randall, began serving the Dighton-Beeler pastorate, a new charge created by the church.
This Sunday will be the new pastors' first in their new pulpits.
Pastors and the churches they will serve at least through next June were formally announced by United Methodist Bishop Fritz Mutti on May 31 at the close of the Kansas West Annual (Regional) Conference of the United Methodist Church.
