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Currently the TWK Cabinet, pastors, staff-parish committees, and churches are working on the upcoming appointment year: July 2026 to June 2027. Your prayers during this time are appreciated.

The Cabinet will be working to make many appointments between now and annual conference, scheduled for June 7-10.

이 과정에는 은퇴, 목회자의 사망으로 인한 교회 개척, 연회를 떠나는 목회자, 지역 교회의 필요와 관심사, 목회자의 필요와 관심사, 가족의 배려 등 여러 가지 요인이 있습니다. 또한 일부 지역 교회는 들어오는 자원이 줄어들어 목회자 급여를 줄였습니다. 이러한 상황들이 복합적으로 작용하여 임직 시즌에는 많은 감정이 뒤섞이게 됩니다. 연합감리교회의 임직 절차는 다른 주류 교단과는 다릅니다.

With our recent focus on discipleship priorities, the Cabinet will give significant time and effort to prioritize appointments that help us live into these priorities. For example, when we make appointments that involve new experiences, such as cross-cultural appointments, or perhaps when a female clergy person is appointed to a church that has not previously had a female clergy person as its senior/lead pastor, we will provide resources to assist both the church and congregation in doing these transitions well. Recently the cabinet identified a “filtering question” to consider when projecting an appointment:

“How does this projected appointment help this church, pastor, and community live faithfully into the 제자 훈련 우선 순위 that God has revealed through the people of the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference?”

Questions like this guide us into new insights and hold us accountable to keep moving forward in the way God is inviting. Our focus on living deeper into these discipleship priorities is very clear. It impacts everything, including the appointment season.

The appointment-making time is sacred work in which the Holy Spirit is felt. The Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference has a faithful Cabinet that truly seeks to honor God and follow where the Spirit leads. Our shared spiritual practices in team meetings and between team meetings are the grounding place for our work. Please keep those involved in this process in your prayers. This is a strength and help to all of us.

To help guide your time of prayer, please note the following timeline:

Jan-Feb: As consultations took place, the district superintendent marked each pastor as remain, must move, should move, could move, or retiring. As appointment projections begin, they may or may not be communicated beyond the cabinet.

March: The cabinet will project most of the full-time appointments during these sessions. Those pastors who will be moving will receive a phone call from their District Superintendent to arrange a meeting to go over their projected appointment and pastor-parish chairs will be called and told of the projected appointment. The full SPRC will be informed and instructed to keep the appointment confidential, because circumstances can often change and it impacts others.

April: The cabinet meets to review all projections and to make any adjustments.

April 19: Pastors and churches may publicly communicate new appointments unless otherwise directed by the District Superintendent.

April-June: The cabinet will continue to work on filling part-time appointments and other situations that might arise as pastoral introductions are made.

Please remember that appointments are not final until they are set at Annual Conference.

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