2025 NIC Conference Wrap-Up
About 700 clergy and lay members of the Northern Illinois Annual Conference met in session from June 9 to 11, 2025, in Schaumburg, Ill., to explore the theme “Grace is Sufficient” as they worshiped,…
Lay and clergy who have completed steps toward confirmation of their ministry are celebrated at Annual Conference sessions.
This includes lay people in the order of deaconesses and home missioners, and clergy and lay as missionaries.
It includes clergy who are being licensed as local pastors, commissioned as provisional member deacons or elders, and ordained as deacons or elders; and those who are retiring.
The following were celebrated at 2023 Annual Conference:
Joann Cultura Melad
Rev. Jane Eesley
Lino Aragon
Xiomara Aragon-Castro
Joshua D. Brown
Ron DeBaun
Nicholas Joyner
Shalamar Molina-Perez
Jenny Moller
D. Josiah Montgomery
Jacqueline Salgado
Ivan Sarabia
John Marc Sianghio Jr.
Rev. Satya Sudhaker
Rev. Solomon Sudhakar
Jaeeon Cho
Clayton Scott Edwards
G. Morris K. Jarkloh Jr.
William Cody Johnson
Beverly Doreen Dukes
James Fu
Sung-Eun Kim
Elsa Noemi Meza
Elizabeth M. Rutherford
Jieun Mori Siegel
Tyler Swihart-Ward
Cynthia Anderson
Julie Bunt
Susan Flinn-Portee
Brian LeBaron
Claire Marich
Miguel Nieves
NoahPanlilio
Gary Peluso-Verdend
Jim Rough
Jonathan Singleton
Brett Todd
Brad Wilson
Mary Zajac
What Do United Methodist Missionaries Do?
About 700 clergy and lay members of the Northern Illinois Annual Conference met in session from June 9 to 11, 2025, in Schaumburg, Ill., to explore the theme “Grace is Sufficient” as they worshiped,…
Read the final actions that Annual Conference members took on legislation during their June 9-11, 2025, gathering.
Bishop Schwerin noted that in these days, churches should experiment with new ministry ideas--even if they end in failure. Resourcing, connectionalism, and upholding t…
"When you are willing to take Jesus's hand, all heaven breaks loose," Bishop Karen Oliveto said in her sermon during the Celebration of Ministry Service on June 9.