Ministers at Burks, Signal Crest and Spring City United Methodist churches swapped pulpits in appointments announced earlier this week at the denomination’s regional Holston Annual Conference in Lake Junaluska, N.C.
The Rev. Rowland Buck, senior minister at Burks for the past four years, was appointed to Signal Crest. The Rev. Dale Wyrick, senior minister at Signal Crest for the past two years, was appointed to the Spring City and Reed’s Chapel churches in the Cleveland District. And the Rev. Tony Collins, minister at Spring City and Reed’s Chapel for the past two years, was appointed to Burks.
Buck had previously served in the Chattanooga District as associate minister at Christ UMC from 1990 to 1995. Wyrick served the Spring City and Reed’s Chapel churches from 2006 to 2014. Burks will be Collins’ first appointment in the Chattanooga District.
Other churches in the Chattanooga District that received new ministers or associate ministers:
– Brainerd (associate): Justin Keating
– Brooks Memorial: Mary Cline
– Hixson (associate): Drew McCallie
– Mount Moriah Parish (director) and Stanley (minister): Sharon Bowers
– Pleasant Grove: Cecil Baxter
– Red Bank: Donald Smith
– Rising Fawn: Mike King
– St. John (youth minister): Jacqueline Davis-Gines
– St. Mark: Gary Ihfe
– St. Mark (associate): Anna Golladay
– Washington Hills: Carl Marshall
– Wildwood-Sand Mountain: Wayne Cook
Other churches in the Cleveland District that received new ministers or associate ministers:
– Benton: L. David Whaley
– Big Spring: Terry K. Huffer
– Chilcutt-Chestuee: Kenneth L. Scoggins
– Daisy-Sale Creek: David G. Anderson
– Englewood-Pleasant Grove, Etowah: John W. Oldham
– First, Copperhill: Thomas M. Reed
– Graysville-New Bethel: Robert E. Hamilton
– Meigs County Parish (director) and Decatur-Concord (minister): Will Conner
– Mountain View-New Providence: Jonathan Doran
– Niota-Cedar Springs: J. David Neel
– St. Elmo: Richard Brown
– Vine Grove/Mount Olive-St. Clair: Jane Petitt
– Wesley Memorial, Cleveland-Valley Head (senior minister): Ramon D. Torres III
– Wesley Memorial, Cleveland-Valley Head (associate): Chris Rouse
– Wesley Memorial, Etowah: Wayne D. Hickman