Tumblin Along

On Friday morning we were treated to a presentation by Tom Tumblin, who is a district superintendent in THE West Ohio conference of the United Methodist Church. His presentation focused on how to transition an existing church.Tom is the DS for my classmate, Bryan Bucher, and has helped Shawnee Methodist Church look at ways to transition from their current senior minister (who has been there for 16 years) and Bryan, who will become the senior minister when he returns in June.

Some of Bryan's church leaders came down for the presentation. Below you can see Glen putting his sweater back on after Tom had run us through an exercise in "change."

I interviewed Glen when I visited Shawnee in November. He's an important part of that church.
Second from the left is Roger, who owns the Arby's in Shawnee and went to college in Indiana at Wabash College. I interviewed him at Shawnee in November. And on the right is Charlotte, one of the associate ministers at Shawnee. I interviewed her in November as well.
This is just a picture from the break time. After the presentation Shawnee UMC treated us all to lunch at Sonny's. It was good to see Bryan's leaders here. I think he's stepping back into an excellent situation with quality leadership.

Thanks, Shawnee UMC for the great lunch!