Church Leadership

This year, United Methodists mourned the passing of beloved bishops, committed evangelists, church pioneers and the pastor who taught many of the Civil Rights Movement’s most prominent leaders how to transform the U.S. nonviolently.

A distinctly separate order from deacons, deaconesses and home missioners serve in a wide variety of full-time lay ministries for the church.

The Rev. Norest M. Nyakudanga became the first lay member in Zimbabwe to be honored with a posthumous ordination for decades of preaching in The United Methodist Church.