Dorhauer to Get His Own Conference

Conspiratorialist John Dorhauer is leaving the St. Louis Association to become conference minister of the Southwest Conference. With 44 churches, the Southwest Conference is slightly smaller than the 60 church St. Louis Association of the Missouri-Mid South Conference. During John's oversight the Missouri Mid-South Conference managed a net loss of only 3 churches over the last four years but during the same period experienced nearly a 25% loss in Sunday School participants and worship attendance. We pray that this new opportunity for leadership will focus on the need in our congregations for authentic spiritual leadership rather than suspicion and division.  Meeting the ambitious goals of the Southwest Conference Shunnamite initiative which calls for three new church starts and three "renewals" of churches from "pastoral" to "programmatic" size congregations each year should be quite a challenge and change of focus for John. Our congratulations on the new position.