Appointments
Clergy Codes
- AF Affiliate Member
- AL Administrative Location
- AM Associate Member
- DC Deaconess
- DM Diaconal Minister
- DR Retired Diaconal Minister (consecrated under provisions of 1992 or earlier Discipline)
- FD Deacon in full connection
- FE Elder in full connection
- FL Full-time Local Pastor
- HL Honorable Location / Honorable Location – Retired
- LM Certified Lay Minister
- OA Associate Member of other Annual Conference
- OD Deacon member of other annual conference
- OE Elder member of other annual conference or other Methodist denomination
- OF Full Member of other denomination
- OP Provisional member of other Annual Conference
- OR Retired member of other Annual Conference
- PD Provisional Deacon
- PE Provisional Elder
- PL Part-time Local Pastor
- RA Retired Associate Member
- RD Retired Deacon in Full Connection
- RE Retired Full Elder
- RL Retired Local Pastor
- RP Retired Provisional Member
Appointment changes announced since the adjournment of the 2021 Arkansas Annual Conference (bold indicates new listings):
Appointments take effect July 1, 2022, unless otherwise noted.
Clergy codes listed reflect the person’s code as of the appointment date listed (or July 1 if not listed).
New Appointments:
- Bethel-New Edinburg/St. Francis-Fordyce (realignment) – Jonah Smith (PL, effective 1/9/2022)
- Living Waters at Centerton – Andrew Smith (PL, effective 11/28/2021)
- Central Avenue-Batesville/Sharp (realignment) – John Mark Moore (FL, effective 11/7/2021)
- Sylvan Hills – Patricia Butler (FE, effective 11/1/2021)
- Mission-Fort Smith – LaToya Shepherd (PL, effective 10/31/2021)
- Southwest District Sacramental Extension Ministry ¶344.1a – Winston Roden (RL, effective 10/15/2021)
- CPE Residency-Hillcrest Medical Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma – Donna Hendricks (FD, effective 10/12/2021)
- Stephens – Dan Read (FE, effective 10/1/2021)
- Grand Avenue-Stuttgart (Deacon) – Sun Ug “Isaac” Choh (FD, effective 9/22/2021)
- North Little Rock First – Sara Bayles Charlton (FE, effective 9/19/2021)
- Gentry – Ken Sanders (PL, effective 9/15/2021)
- Bismarck – Walter “Bubba” Smith (RE, effective 9/1/2021)
- Bismarck (Associate) – Micke Morey (RE, effective 9/1/2021)
- Northwest Arkansas Foodbank – Lindsey Russell (PD, effective 8/23/2021)
- Methodist Foundation for Arkansas – Lynn Kilbourne (FE, effective 8/16/2021)
- Adona/Perryville/Wye Mountain Cooperative Parish (realignment) – Richard Gifford (FE, effective 7/22/2021)
- Adona/Perryville/Wye Mountain Cooperative Parish (Associate, realignment) – Bill Nowell (PL, effective 7/22/2021)
- Marianna/Salem/Bear Creek – Glenn Hicks (FL, effective 7/1/2021)
- Lacey – Kay Carpenter (PL, effective 7/1/2021)
- Humphrey/Sherrill – Sean Treas (PL, effective 7/1/2021)
- Humphrey/Sherrill – Yesenia Zapata (PL, effective 7/1/2021)
- Wesley Chapel-Brinkley/Taylor Chapel – Edna Hargraves (PL, effective 7/1/2021)
- Hawley Memorial/Wesley-Pine Bluff – Larry Gragg (PL, effective 7/1/2021)
- Good Faith Carr (Associate) – Andrea Cherry (PL, effective 7/1/2021)
- Elm Springs (Deacon) – Lindsey Russell (PD, effective 7/1/2021)
- Bald Knob/Kensett/Judsonia – Cheyann B. Chambers (PL, effective 7/1/2021)
Change of Conference Relationship:
- Leave – Heath Bradley (FE, effective 11/21/2021)
Lay Supply Assignments:
- Trinity-Warren – Wayne Wesson (effective 11/10/2021)
- Mt. Olive-Fordyce – William Galloway (effective 11/10/2021)
- Pleasant Plains/Bradford/Russell (realignment) – Steve May (effective 9/19/2021)
- McRae/Antioch – Paul Weeks (effective 9/1/2021)
- Elkins – Atticus O’Brien (effective 8/15/2021)
- Emmet – Dan Ford (effective 8/6/2021)
- St. Mark-El Dorado – Amy Machen (effective 8/1/2021)
- Bell Chapel – Kenny Rowland (effective 8/1/2021)
- Bismarck – Jack Belin (effective 7/15/2021)
- Trinity-Gurdon/Okolona/Mount Zion-Arkadelphia – Corey Conrad (effective 7/1/2021)
- Bethesda Campground – Danny McSpadden (effective 7/1/2021)
- Bradford/Pleasant Plains – Steve May (effective 7/1/2021)
- Campground – Cody Gray (effective 7/1/2021)