Chattanooga: Vest, Moore, Peele among Methodist area pastoral assignments

The Rev. Roger Alan Vest has been appointed senior pastor of Chatsworth, Ga., United Methodist Church.

He replaces the Rev. Larry Pearson, who had been senior pastor since 2001.

Mr. Vest is one of 19 new appointments made in the Northwest District of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church last week in Athens during its annual meeting.

Other Chattanooga area appointments include the Rev. John Roger Moore Jr., who moves from County Line UMC in Acworth to First UMC in LaFayette; the Rev. William Gerald Peele, who comes from the Jasper Church in Pickens County to Rock Spring; the Rev. John C. Merk at Dawnville in Dalton; and Jennifer Lynn Bates, who moves from the LaFayette Circuit to Sugar Valley in Calhoun.

Assignments to parishes with more than one church include Tracy Bass to the LaFayette Circuit (the Mount Carmel and Trinity churches in LaFayette and Wesley Chapel in Trion); Joseph Lee Crawford Sr. to the Northwest Parish (Andrews Chapel in Cohutta and Kaigler Chapel in Adairsville) and the Rev. Skip Mitchell Sr. to the Fisher’s Chapel and Pleasant Hill churches in Summerville.

Other appointments in the district include the Rev. Robert Brian Davis (Adairsville), Harvey James Palmer III (Alexander Chapel in Cartersville), the Rev. George Earl Wilson Jr. (Jasper), William Joel Miller (Kingston), the Rev. Eric Matthew Lee (a new church start in Bartow County), Charles Alfred Moon (Oak Grove in Euharlee), the Rev. Jaqueline Dee Lawson and Carrie Finegan (associate pastors at Sugar Hill in Cartersville), the Rev. Robert Lindsey Bruce (Tate), the Rev. Michael Thomas Morgan Sr. (Trinity in Cartersville) and Timothy Roy Lee (White).