Over 1,000 churches in the Magnolia State last week sent delegates to the Mississippi Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Methodist pastors receive their charges on a yearly basis and those charges were published at the conference. Tomorrow is the first day in the pulpit for new pastors is Sunday. New charges in Northeast Mississippi include:

New Albany District

- Ailesville – Mary Ann Veasley

- Christ-Lebanon, Booneville - Bennie Napier

- Christ-Crossroads, Corinth - Jim Hall

- First, Corinth - Prentiss Gordon

- Iuka North - Robert Armstrong

- Jumpertown - Jason Franklin

- First, New Albany - Barry Male

- Oxford East - William Clay Farr

- Tishimingo South - Dennis Earl McAnally

- Meadow Creek, Wheeler - Ricky Bishop

- Wesley Foundation, NEMCC - Adam Gordon

Starkville District

- Cedar Bluff, Siloam - David Schultz

- Columbus Central - Jonathan Speegle

- Maben - Scarlet Sheppard

- First, Macon - Robert E. Whiteside

- First, Starkville - Greg Ducker

- First, Starkville - David Shumaker

Tupelo District

- District Superintendent W. Geoffrey Joyner

- Algoma - Matthew McGrew

- Harden’s Chapel, Friendship - Darrell Sanderson

- Greenwood Springs - Bill Cornett

- Houston North - Steven Paul Keen

- Palestine, Nettleton - Maurice A. McIntosh

- Parish, Pontotoc - George R. Pulliam

- First, Pontotoc - Roger R. Shock

- Cornerstone, Tupelo - William Johnson Garrott

- First, Tupelo - Corey Truett

- VA Conference - Oliver Box