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February 2005 |
Bishop names Purvis, Gast, Mendenhall as district superintendents; Griffith to stay on through year
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Area Bishop Michael J. Coyner has named the Revs. Judi Purvis, Chip Gast, and Dale Mendenhall as three new district superintendents who will take their positions in June.
In mid-January, Coyner announced the Rev. Judi Purvis, 57, senior pastor of Linden United Methodist Church in the Indianapolis West District, to be the next Vincennes District Superintendent in the South Indiana Conference. She is a second-career person called to ministry, who worked as an accountant, controller and vice-president of an insurance company and a graduate of Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. Purvis is married to David Purvis, a retired school teacher. They have four children.
In late-January, Coyner named the Rev. Charles (Chip) E. Gast Jr., 60, senior pastor of Cross-Wind United Methodist Church in Logansport in the Kokomo District, as the next superintendent of the Huntington District in the North Indiana Conference. Gast, ordained in 1989, graduated with a Master of Divinity Degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill. He was called to ministry as a full-time local pastor in 1979 and was ordained an Elder in 1984. He has served in the Huntington County South Parish, DeMotte and Logansport Market St. which changed its name to Cross-Wind in 1997. He is married to Paula Gast. They have two grown daughters, Charissa and Samira.
At the same time, Coyner named the Rev. N. Dale Mendenhall, 53, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Griffith in the Calumet District since 1999, as the next superintendent of the Muncie District in the North Indiana Conference. A graduate of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., he was ordained an Elder in 1977 and served churches at Logansport First, Muncie High St., Leesburg, Garrett and Kendallville Trinity. He is married to Cathy Mendenhall. They have two grown sons, Matthew and Gerald.
In addition to these announcements, Coyner announced that the Rev. Don Griffith has agreed to continue as Interim Executive Assistant to the Bishop through 2005, in order to give him more time to make that appointment and to consider it in light of any re-structuring decisions by either conference this summer.
Last updated on 25 Apr 2008