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2009 Annual Conference at Lakeside, Ohio June 7-11, 2009
Love in Action: Developing Leaders

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  • (Credit: Norm Coleman) Members of the West Ohio Conference gathered for its 40th session at Lakeside-On-Lake Erie beginning June 8.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) The historic Hotel Lakeside has welcomed visitors to its community since the last quarter of the 19th century.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) Conference organist Fred Chatfield accompanied the opening worship service.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) Lakeside chair legs are a little longer than the legs of the members of the Hope for Africa Children's Choir.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) Once their feet are on the floor, the children got conference members to their feet with their dancing and singing.
  • (Credit: Norm Coleman) The conference theme of developing leaders set the stage for the Hope for Africa Children's Choir appearance.
  • (Credit: Norm Coleman) The Hope for Africa Children's Choir members dance their faith.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) The Rev. Junius Dotson, senior pastor of St. Mark's UMC in Wichita, was the preacher for the opening worship service.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) "The Word that is within you will come out!" Dotson told conference members.
  • (Credit: Norm Coleman) Conference members in 2,800-seat Hoover Auditorium received communion by intinction at dozens of stations througout the hall.
  • (Credit: Norm Coleman) The Rev. Nola Heilman and BIshop Bruce R. Ough served the members of the Hope for Africa Children's Choir on the Hoover Auditorium stage.
  • (Credit: Norm Coleman) Program counselors for West Ohio's summer camping program trained for their work as the conference met. The Lakeside Pavilion is on the shore of Lake Erie, near the historic Lakeside Dock.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) Hoover Auditorium, in its eighty-third year, is a wi-fi hot spot in which West Ohio Conference participants can stay connected during sessions.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) A developing subtext for the sessions's theme, "Love in Action," is the "gratitude dance." BIshop Bruce R. Ough and assistant the Rev. Joyce Fry led members in the first of many celebratory moments.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) Children's Choir members joined West Ohio kids during the first day of Vacation Bible School at Lakeside for a tie-dying activity.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) Bishop Ough encouraged West Ohio Conference members in his annual Episcopal Address. The conference is living out its values, he said.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) West Ohio Conference Treasurer the Rev. Stan Sutton gave his annual report.
  • (Credit: Sharon Fink) Connectional Ministries Director George Howard, the Rev. "Fritz" Merkes, Jerry Boozer and Jack Ewing mark the awarding of the 2009 Denman Evangelism Awards.
  • (Credit: Norm Coleman) Hope for Africa Children's Choir members set the tone of "Love in Action" for the West Ohio Conference's work.
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