The Rev. John Pinson, who once pastored Boynton United Methodist Church in Catoosa County, Ga., is the United Methodist denomination's selection to lead its Northwest District of the North Georgia Conference.
Pinson comes to his appointment as district superintendent from Douglasville United Methodist Church, where he has been executive pastor. He replaces the Rev. Herzen Andone, who had been district superintendent for six years.
Ministers were appointed or reappointed to all churches in the North Georgia Conference at its annual gathering in Athens last week.
Among the appointments was that of the Rev. Tommy Willingham as pastor of the one of the district's largest churches, First UMC in Dalton. Willingham comes to his new appointment from McEachern UMC in Powder Springs.
Other new appointments are:
' Blue Ridge - James Hughes, who had been serving Cornelia UMC
' First, LaFayette - Randall Massengill, who comes from First UMC in Lavonia
' Kingston - Mark Lovell
' Mount Vernon - Tac Coley, who had been serving Winterville UMC
' Pine Log - Zach Townsend
' Smith Chapel - Jim Reilly, who comes from a two-point circuit (McGaughey's Chapel-Fuller Chapel)
' The UMC at the Well - Mark Strickland Jordan
' White - James Schlicht, who had been serving Hinton UMC in Tate
' Woodstation - Sharon Coley, who comes from a three-point circuit (Bethlehem, Middleton and Woodlawn churches)
Ministers at Center Valley, Hinton, the LaFayette Circuit, and McGaugheys Chapel-Fuller Chapel will be supplied.