Bishop announces new district superintendents
03-10-2010Bishop Charles Crutchfield has announced his appointment of two new district superintendents, who will join the cabinet starting July 1. The cabinet — comprised of nine district superintendents — is responsible for joining the bishop in making pastoral appointments throughout the Arkansas Conference.
C.E. McAdoo, currently senior pastor of Village United Methodist Church in Hot Springs Village, will become the Southwest District Superintendent, and Dede Roberts, associate pastor of First UMC in Conway, will be the Central District Superintendent.
Southwest District Superintendent David F. Prothro, now completing his seventh year as a D.S., plans to retire.
Phil Hathcock, now completing his sixth year as Central District Superintendent, will take on a new appointment as the Arkansas Conference’s Director of Connectional Ministries and Assistant to the Bishop. Hathcock will take the post now held by Roy Smith, who will become senior pastor of First UMC in Russellville.
The full slate of 2010 appointments will be announced at Annual Conference, set for June 6-9 in Hot Springs. Also confirmed appointments will be announced each week at www.arumc.org/appointments.
The Southwest District, based in Texarkana, encompasses 108 churches and 12,160 United Methodist members in an 11-county area.
The Central District, with its office at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, includes 43 churches and more than 23,800 members in Pulaski County.
This will be McAdoo’s second stint on the appointive cabinet. From 2000 to 2006, he was Pine Bluff District superintendent and later Southeast District superintendent following the merger of the North Arkansas and Little Rock conferences.
McAdoo, 62, first joined the former Little Rock Conference as a local pastor in 1982. He was ordained an elder in full connection in 1987. He has previously served the congregations of St. James UMC in Pine Bluff as well as Wesley Chapel UMC and Hunter UMC, both in Little Rock. He has served the 745-member Village UMC since 2006.
Roberts, 49, began her service in pastoral ministry as a probationary member in 1985 in the North Indiana Conference. She joined the former North Arkansas Conference as a probationary member is 1989 and was ordained an elder in full connection in 1991. She has served the congregations of Russellville First, Dover, Gardner Memorial, St. Paul Fort Smith, North Little Rock First and Sherwood Good Shepherd United Methodist churches. She also has served on the Arkansas Conference staff. Since 2005, she has been associate pastor at 2,134-member First UMC in Conway where she preaches each Sunday and oversees program staff.
In addition to Hathcock and Prothro, the Arkansas Conference appointive cabinet currently includes Charles T. Settle, North District; Rodney G. Steele, North Central District; Kurt Boggan, Northeast District; Mackey Yokem, Northwest District; Chester Jones, South Central District; Dennis Spence, Southeast District; and Mike Morey, West District.
