He or she is already the newest resident bishop of the West New york Conference of one’s United Methodist Chapel

Kenneth H. Carter, Jr.

Kenneth H. Carter, Jr. And the Drawer, the guy brings pastoral and you can administrative frontrunners to around 1000 congregations, fresh phrases of chapel, university ministries, and you can outreach initiatives into the a keen episcopal town one to stretches across the 44 west areas of your condition. Bishop Carter supported since president of your Council regarding Bishops of Joined Methodist Chapel from 2018-2020, and then he try one of three moderators of your own Payment into the a means Give, out of 2016 to 2018. Bishop Carter ‘s the composer of to try to get books, most recently an effective memoir, Jesus Makes an easy method (Abingdon, 2021). Their editorials possess starred in the Charlotte Observer, Greensboro Reports and you can Listing, and you can Winston-Salem Record,  and his responses towards the Christianity in the united states has actually appeared from the New york Times, Arizona Article, Wall Highway Log, Los angeles Times, and on Federal Societal Radio.

Bishop Carter has preached in the go camping group meetings, prisons and you can jails, school and you can university chapels, synagogues, megachurches and you will home places of worship, and also in twenty nations for the five continents. His ministry from the Providence United Methodist Chapel during the Charlotte is explained because of the American Religious Historian Diana Butler Trout within her guide, Christianity for the remainder of Us. Bishop Carters higher hope for brand new church would be the fact she’ll discover an orthodox Christian faith that gives the fresh new drastically inclusive grace off Jesus to all or any people, at the same time calls the follower out-of Jesus in order to internal holiness, missional compassion, fairness grounded on the new gospel and you can a hopeful story of conversion process. He journey widely along side conference, preaching in the regional church buildings and you may guaranteeing lay and you may clergy management. Bishop Carter with his partner Pam have been features served because the an ordained senior in the Joined Methodist Church, most recently inside emergency healing, and you may she’s an intense engagement into the Gods purpose into the Haiti.

The newest Carters inhabit Charlotte, New york, and consider it a beneficial blessing to serve individuals of Western North carolina.

Beam W. Chamberlain, Jr.

He had been produced within the Pomona, Ca, gone along with his missionary mothers to help you Jamaica as he are seven yrs . old. The guy graduated which have B.An effective. and you can Th.B. amount regarding Joined Wesleyan College in the Allentown, Pennsylvania, and from Duke University Divinity University, Durham, Vermont, toward Meters.Div. studies (magna spunk laude) and you will learnt annually at the Methodist Theological School during the Ohio. He gotten D.D. values regarding Shenandoah University and Liberia Methodist School. Before his election on episcopacy in the 1996 of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference, the guy presented with the fresh Salvation Military during the a beneficial Trenton, Nj-new jersey, ghetto, as the a beneficial missionary/ministerial school dominant within the Zambia, Africa, as affiliate pastor otherwise pastor out-of rural and you can area churches as the really since a great 3400-associate congregation from the Virginia Fulfilling for the a space area out of Arizona, DC. His last meeting before election try because the Region Superintendent of the 29,000+ Richmond District of your Virginia Appointment. He’s got offered meeting and you can jurisdictional leaders, especially in other areas off international objectives, evangelism, and you will degree. Pursuing the seven age while the bishop of your Holston Conference, he already functions as special assistant for the chairman from the Wesley Theological Seminary inside the Washington, DC, so when Bishop-in-House within Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. Ray and you may Martha possess about three children, Russell, , and you may half a dozen grandchildren.

Sharon Brownish Christopher

Bishop Sharon A. Brown Christopher is actually a retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church where she offered from 1988-2008.  In 2002, she turned the first female Chairman of Council of Bishops in order to suffice a-one-year name. ————————

An indigenous away from Corpus Christi, Texas, this woman is a scholar from Southwest College or university, Georgetown, Colorado, and contains a king from Divinity studies out of Perkins University out of Theology, Dallas.

She was ordained an elderly throughout the Wisconsin Conference in 1972, and you will served once the Director of Religious Training, following user pastor, to start with Joined Methodist Church, Appleton; she offered on Butler and Germantown: Calvary United Methodist Church buildings; and Aldersgate United Methodist Church, Milwaukee, prior to paying five-and-one-50 % of ages because Region Superintendent of Eastern Section. She became the new assistant to help you Bishop David Lawson inside January, 1986. In the July 1988, is opted for for the episcopacy because of the North Central Jurisdictional Fulfilling. Their own earliest project because role first started in September 1988 as the Resident Bishop of Minnesota Area. In the 1996, she is assigned to the fresh new Illinois City. She’s hitched into Reverend Charles E. Logsdon Christopher. Within their relatives they have several people, Jeffrey Charles along with his spouse y Logsdon Warner, their mate, Richard, as well as their child, Max.