Thursday, December 01, 2022

MINISTRY NEWS

Benjamin Reynolds has announced his resignation as transitional pastor at Chicago First effective Dec. 31. The congregation is working on plans going forward.

Ron Bryant has resigned as pastor of the Girard congregation effective Dec. 31 following 12 years of service there.

The Virden congregation has called Katrina Spencer as its pastor. She can be reached at Pastor.Katrina@hotmail.com.

Welcome to Annali Topf, an ordained Church of the Brethren minister who recently moved to the district from Pasadena, Calif. Annali has begun a position as chaplain at the VA Hospital in Milwaukee and hopes to connect with Illinois/Wisconsin. She is a graduate of Fuller Seminary and did a Clinical Pastoral Education residency at UCLA Health. Our prayers are with her as she begins this new work.

The Dixon congregation is in the pastoral search process. It is a half-time position. Cherry Grove and La Place also have current vacancies and are various stages of the search process.