Church Leadership - 2006
Church Council

Chair..........Mason Wheeler
Vice Chair..........Delora Bennett
Recording Secretary..........Mark Winquist

The church council shall provide for the planning and implementing of a program of nurture, outreach, witness and education within the congregation and for the administration of its organizational and temporal life. The church council is responsible to and functions as the executive agency of the charge conference. It shall initiate planning, establish objectives, adopt goals, authorize action, determine policy, receive reports, evaluate the church's ministries and review the mission and ministry of the church.

Lay Leaders..........Marty Draper & Carol Jung
Financial Secretary..........Laura Shumaker
Church Treasurer..........Glady McCracken
Assistant Church Treasurer..........Kay Becker
Pastors..........Teri Johnson & R. Duane Coates
Education Coordinator..........Gretchen Knutson
Music Coordinator..........Brenda Hieb
Visitor Contact/Volunteer Coordinator..........Peggy Eggers
Contemporary Music/Worship Coordinator..........Teresa Person
Lay Members to Annual Conference..........Rick Wahlstrom, Betsy Draper, Barb Crosser, Leah Draper, Jim Pedersen
Alternate Lay Members to Annual Conference..........Maury Hale & Don Nash


Administrative Committee Chairpersons
Trustees..........Roger Sandness
Finance..........Barb Adams
Staff/Parish Relations..........Mark Stratton


Program Committee Chairpersons
Work Areas:
Campus Ministry..........Leo Spinar
Education Ministry..........Chris Brake
Outreach..........Diane Rieken
Family Ministries..........
Witness..........Peggy Eggers
Worship..........Delora Bennett

Group Chairpersons:
United Methodist Women..........Edna Riley
United Methodist Men..........Chris Buus
United Methodist Youth..........Pastor Duane Coates


Members-At-Large
Class of 2006 Class of 2007 Class of 2008
Sarah Darnall
Duane Barnes
John Egleston
Mark Winquist
Guy Archer
Darrel Pahl
Trish Matson Buus
Bruce Westergaard
Allan Shumaker


Love in Action- Don Nash, Lavonne & Ed Fuller, Barb & Larry Hult, Peggy Eggers
Care Group- Darla Strande and Judy Smith, Co-Chairs
United Methodist Women- Marian Barnes, Chair
United Methodist Men- Lucian Prohaska, Chair
Harvest Table- Vonda Kirkham
Memorial Committee- Ken Deen, Chair
Organists: MK Huggins and Joan Riessen