Little Kanawha District UMC
District Superintendent---Rev. Joe Hill
Serving the WV counties of:
Pleasants, Wood, Ritchie, Roane, Jackson, Doddridge,
Wirt, Calhoun
Telephone: 304-428-6461
Fax: 304-428-6462
E-mail: office@lkdumc.org
Web site:
http://www.lkdumc.org/
(click on this link to view their website and newsletter (LKD Reporter)
Address:
3301 Broad St.
Parkersburg, WV 26104
Fellow Disciples in the Little Kanawha District,
On behalf of myself and my family, I thank you and thank God for the warm celebration we enjoyed at the service for my installation as Conference Superintendent to the Little Kanawha District. I am grateful for all who were present and for all who could not be present in body but were with us in spirit. I am grateful for all who offered your hearts and voices to God in song in prayer, in the reading of God’s Word, and in words of support and commitment to our ministries together. I thank God for you all. As you shared your hospitality and we were blessed to hear and see the stories of many of your churches, Christina, Majesty, and I truly felt the welcome of the district.
The installation service was a sacred time with its share of lighthearted moments and imperfections. I hope the nature of the service helped you to have some understanding of your Conference Superintendent. As I make the rounds visiting you in worship, I am not going to be overly concerned with perfect rituals and routines. What I will be concerned with are rituals and routines and even unplanned, spontaneous moments that create sacred space in which people can worship freely and gladly. I look for us to be creating sacred space and sacred moments in which we leave room for God to move us, convict us, comfort us, inspire us, and empower us. In other words I am most concerned that our moments of worship be spaces and times in which the Holy Spirit can move and that they be spaces and times in which you and I and those whom we reach can breathe deeply of God’s loving presence and power. I encourage you to multiply those moments and spaces well beyond Sunday mornings. Indeed, I encourage you at all times and in all places to BE sacred spaces with whom people in this suffocating world can experience the love and presence of the God we know in Jesus Christ. By all means bring people to Christ but just as importantly, bring Christ to people.
Thank you again, and breathe deep! Let the Holy Spirit fill you and carry that Spirit throughout the district!
The Lord Be with You!
Rev. Joe Hill
District Superintendent---Rev. Joe Hill
Serving the WV counties of:
Pleasants, Wood, Ritchie, Roane, Jackson, Doddridge,
Wirt, Calhoun
Telephone: 304-428-6461
Fax: 304-428-6462
E-mail: office@lkdumc.org
Web site:
http://www.lkdumc.org/
(click on this link to view their website and newsletter (LKD Reporter)
Address:
3301 Broad St.
Parkersburg, WV 26104
Fellow Disciples in the Little Kanawha District,
On behalf of myself and my family, I thank you and thank God for the warm celebration we enjoyed at the service for my installation as Conference Superintendent to the Little Kanawha District. I am grateful for all who were present and for all who could not be present in body but were with us in spirit. I am grateful for all who offered your hearts and voices to God in song in prayer, in the reading of God’s Word, and in words of support and commitment to our ministries together. I thank God for you all. As you shared your hospitality and we were blessed to hear and see the stories of many of your churches, Christina, Majesty, and I truly felt the welcome of the district.
The installation service was a sacred time with its share of lighthearted moments and imperfections. I hope the nature of the service helped you to have some understanding of your Conference Superintendent. As I make the rounds visiting you in worship, I am not going to be overly concerned with perfect rituals and routines. What I will be concerned with are rituals and routines and even unplanned, spontaneous moments that create sacred space in which people can worship freely and gladly. I look for us to be creating sacred space and sacred moments in which we leave room for God to move us, convict us, comfort us, inspire us, and empower us. In other words I am most concerned that our moments of worship be spaces and times in which the Holy Spirit can move and that they be spaces and times in which you and I and those whom we reach can breathe deeply of God’s loving presence and power. I encourage you to multiply those moments and spaces well beyond Sunday mornings. Indeed, I encourage you at all times and in all places to BE sacred spaces with whom people in this suffocating world can experience the love and presence of the God we know in Jesus Christ. By all means bring people to Christ but just as importantly, bring Christ to people.
Thank you again, and breathe deep! Let the Holy Spirit fill you and carry that Spirit throughout the district!
The Lord Be with You!
Rev. Joe Hill