By Rick Wolcott* Bishop Tracy S. Malone was the invited guest preacher for the Mosaic multi-ethnic praise and worship service at Garfield Memorial UMC (North Coast District) in Pepper Pike on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, January 17. “I want to take an opportunity to thank Pastor (Chip) Freed for extending the invitation [...]
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Bishop Tracy S. Malone Appoints Five Clergy to New EOC Leadership Roles
By Rick Wolcott* Bishop Tracy S. Malone announces the following appointments, made to ensure that the East Ohio Conference continues to be strategically staffed for both the sustainability of the Church and for the future of the Church. The appointments, made after prayerful discernment, are effective July 1: Ed Peterson, appointed as assistant to the [...]
East Ohio 2020 Annual Conference Report
By Rick Wolcott* Bishop Tracy S. Malone presided over the 51st session of Annual Conference, the first-ever virtual session in the East Ohio Conference. The worship services and business session presentations of the Sept. 26-27 session were live from the Great Hall at Church of the Saviour UMC, in Cleveland Heights. There, members of the [...]