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“Meet the New District President of United Methodist Men”

Martin Conner is a Georgia native, growing up and attending the First Methodist Church in Dalton. Martin has many fond memories camping at Sydney Dew near Rome, hiking the Appalachian Trail with the Boy Scouts and in making lifelong friends from the Methodist Youth Fellowship (MYF). Upon graduating Dalton High School, Martin attended the University of Georgia and in 1979 received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Marketing. Martin is a 27 year sales and marketing veteran of the healthcare industry. He has spent the last twelve years in working with innovative healthcare IT companies helping them develop and launch their sales and marketing strategy.

Martin’s personal relationship with Christ was significantly re-energized during a Promise Keepers event in early July, 1995. Since then, Martin has continually participated in men’s small groups and in April 1996, Martin went on Men’s Walk to Emmaus #51. Martin has continued his spiritual growth by serving on several Emmaus Weekends, getting involved with the Kairos Prison Ministry and by participating in Sunday school and bible study.

Martin and his wife Julie, attend Roswell United Methodist Church with their two teenage children, Claire, 17 and Cole, 14. Martin is also serving this year as President of the RUMC United Methodist Men Fellowship and is active in several church events and committees. Martin’s desire is to seek God’s Will and to lead others to a personal relationship with Christ.

“Meet the New District President of United Methodist Women”

Jo (Elna) Sheetz has always had a heart for service. Growing up in Houston, she was very active with her church and girl scout troop in inner city ministries. She attended Vanderbilt and Univ. of Tennessee in Nashville. She moved to Atlanta in 1983 with her husband and two small children. They joined Sandy Springs UMC where she is currently involved with an outreach ministry, Feed and Seed, to the poor and homeless. As a stay at home mom she was involved in the community and also volunteered at the Women’s Community Kitchen of Atlanta Urban Ministries and the Atlanta Women and Children Day Shelter. She earned her Master’s Degree in non-profit management from Ga. State University in 2000. Her internship was at the Atlanta Women & Children’s Day Shelter. In 2003, Jo accepted the position of director of Atlanta Urban Ministries which serves the homeless women and children in Midtown Atlanta with feeding programs, transitional housing, and school-age childcare. During the last two years, she has been the Education Coordinator for Community Action Center, establishing Adult Education classes such as English, Computer, Parenting, Job Skills, for those in need in the Sandy Springs/Dunwoody area. Jo currently serves on the North Georgia United Methodist Housing and Homeless Council, Tri-J Census Advisory Team and the AROS District UMW President.. The deaconess motto is “I serve neither for gratitude nor reward, but from gratitude and love; my reward is that I may serve.” - that has now become her motto also.


District Superintendent, Ed Tomlinson, and Statistician, Chris Barbieri, review the membership growth of the churches in 2008. With the end of year reports from all but one church, it appears that the District has a gain of over 1300 members. While 72% of the churches showed positive numbers in 2008, another 10% remained steady and 18% posted losses.

Atlanta Roswell District Youth
End of School Main Event
May 29th, 7 pm – 11 pm
http://www.dunwoodyumc.org/youth_180.htm

Contact Rev. Stephen R. Streett

Stephen.Streett@dunwoodyumc.org

or 770-394-0675, ext. 124