{"id":2237,"date":"2025-06-09T09:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pnwumc.org\/ac2025\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:52:26","slug":"meet-our-pnwac-2025-preachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pnwumc.org\/pnwac\/meet-our-pnwac-2025-preachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our PNWAC 2025 preachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ac2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-AC-Logo-PNW-16-9.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<h2>Meet our PNWAC 2025 preachers<\/h2>\n<h5>June 26-28, 2025 \u2022 Bothell United Methodist Church<\/h5>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">At this year\u2019s Pacific Northwest Annual Conference Session, we gather under the theme \u201cBlessed and Broken,\u201d drawn from Luke 9 and the story of Jesus feeding the multitude. In this powerful image of grace and surrender, we are reminded that God works through both our abundance and our vulnerability, not to diminish us, but to multiply what we offer in love. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As we continue our journey on the M.I.L.E. and live out our ministry priorities, four preachers will guide us in worship, helping us reflect on what it means to be blessed and broken in our own lives and ministries. Their voices\u2014rooted in their experiences and shaped by deep commitment\u2014will invite us to the table with honesty, hope, and the courage to be transformed. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Meet them below.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>\n<p>Opening Worship | Thursday, June 26, 2025 \u2022 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bishop Cedrick D. Bridgeforth<\/strong> serves as the episcopal leader of the Greater Northwest Area of The United Methodist Church, providing oversight to the Alaska, Oregon-Idaho, and Pacific Northwest Conferences. Elected in 2022, he is a veteran, author, and experienced leader with a deep commitment to equity and innovation. Originally from Alabama, Bishop Bridgeforth brings a strong pastoral presence and a vision rooted in justice, inclusion, and shared ministry across diverse contexts. Bishop Cedrick and his husband, Christopher Hucks-Ortiz, live in the greater Seattle area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ac2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bishop-Cedrick.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop Cedrick D. Bridgeforth\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Schindler-elizabeth-SQ.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. Elizabeth Ingram Schindler\"><\/p>\n<h3>Memorial Service | Thursday, June 26, 2025 \u2022 7 p.m.<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Rev. Elizabeth Ingram Schindler<\/strong>\u00a0was born a Southerner but has called the PNW home for almost twenty years. She graduated from Southern Methodist University and Duke Divinity School and will soon earn a master\u2019s in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Arizona State University. She is passionate about helping people respond to God\u2019s call and building the systems that support ministry. Elizabeth will join the first superintendency team serving the SeaTac District in July. She is a proud resident of Issaquah, where she lives with her brilliant spouse, two remarkable teenagers, and an unruly little dog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Retiree Celebration | Friday, June 27, 2025 \u2022 11:10 a.m.<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Rev. Megan Madsen<\/strong> is a child of the Pacific Northwest. Megan is passionate about Scripture as a catalyst to ignite the imagination of God\u2019s people to be co-laborers in the Kin-dom. A graduate of Northwest Nazarene University and Nazarene Theological Seminary, Megan now calls Spokane home with her spouse. The two welcomed their first child this past winter; the dogs remain unconvinced of the new family member. \u00a0She loves a cup of coffee, hikes rewarded with tacos, and slow evenings with friends and family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ac2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Megan-M_2021-1200x1200-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. Megan Madsen\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ac2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/KurtzJanelle.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. Janelle Kurtz\"><\/p>\n<h3>Service of the Ordering of Ministry | Sat., June 28, 2025 \u2022 10:30 a.m.<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Rev. Janelle Kurtz<\/strong> moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2015 to follow family, after being formed by beloved communities in Northeast Ohio for the first part of her life. She, her husband, and their daughter have happily made their home here since. Janelle considers it an honor to serve local congregations in pastoral ministry as they answer their call to be part of God\u2019s expansive work of justice and love in their communities. She enjoys the invitation to bear witness to people\u2019s stories of how grace is made real in their lives. 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