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Meet the District Superintendent!

I am privileged to be appointed as the Franklin District Superintendent.

I am married to Jolene who works part time for the American Red Cross as an instructor for the nursing assistants classes and also part time as a charge nurse at Sugar Creek Station.  We are the parents of two grown and married daughters who have given us four grandchildren.

Before being appointed as the Franklin District Superintendent in July of 2001, I served in a multi-point charge in the Erie-Meadville District, a station charge in the Greensburg District and a large multi-staff church in the Butler District.  

The Franklin District has 102 churches located in a small part of Crawford county, all of Mercer and Venango counties and most of Clarion county.  Our mission is to make disciples for Jesus Christ; to be in ministry in our communities, the conference, the nation and the world; and to be positive change agents in our communities.  Most of our district is rural with smaller churches joined together in multi-point charges for ministry.  We have larger ministries in Clarion, Franklin, Grove City, Hermitage, Oil City and Sharon.  

The churches in the Franklin District face challenges that include, but are not limited to the following:

• Economic, we continue to experience the loss jobs in our region.
• Membership, the average age of our members is getting older and the numbers are declining.  We need to gain skills in establishing new relationships with people in our communities.
• Spiritual, our spirits have been affected by the changes around us, many of which we experience as disappointments.  We need for God to pour out his Spirit upon us so that our spirits will be strong and attractive for Jesus Christ.

My prayer for all of the Franklin District is expressed in Paul's prayer for the Christians in Ehpesus in Ephesians 3:14-21:

    For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
    Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
 

Your Co-Worker For Jesus Christ,

Jim
 

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