Shaping the Role of Bishops in the Global Methodist Church

Rev. David Wesley Donnan is a Global Methodist clergy serving in the South Georgia Annual Conference. He has a mind of administration, serving on his conference’s Finance, Administration, Pension, & Benefits committee. He is the elder at Glennville Methodist Church. He ministers to the GMC broadly through his website, daviddonnan.com, where he has links to articles and podcasts that he has published. He also regularly participates in Methodist-centered discussion on X, where his handle is @daviddonnan.

David earned a Public Relations degree from Georgia Southern. He got his Mdiv from Asbury Theological Seminary in 2017 and is a doctoral student currently. He has served two Methodist churches since then. He is married to Brandy, a kindergarten teacher, with two young children. David is very into football, but he makes sure to post about Jesus and his church more than football.

He enjoys a professional friendship with his President Pro Tempore, Jay Hanson, and many others across the connexion. He recently engaged in a back-and-forth with Chris Ritter on funding models for annual conferences, involving the tithes of active clergy. Yet today he is here to talk about how it is that the GMC will potentially utilize bishops in its new polity, which will be determined at its Convening Conference in September of next year.

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