Pastor Derek Lang with CA/NV Conference Co-Lay Leader Gayle Shearman and Burt Yin at last week's General Conference.
As per Conference Lay Minister requirements, Derek has successfully completed two years of service as a Conference Lay Minister, Sacramento, Chinese UMC and Almaden Hills UMC, San Jose, and is hereby recognized as a Conference Certified Lay Minister. Congratulations to Pastor Derek. We pray for God's continual blessings upon his ministry with the California/Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church
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Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Kuan was elected as a delegate by the California-Nevada Conference to the 2016 General Conference of The United Methodist Church in Portland, OR. As the first clergy elected, he will be leading the delegation with the first lay elected, Emily Allen. They look forward to working together with an outstanding and diverse group of general conference and jurisdictional conference delegates (Burt Yin among them) and preparing the business of the 2016 General Conference.
Rev. Dr. Kuan stated, “This is who we are as a delegation. We are gay and straight; women and men; youth, young adult, adult, and older adult; we are Pacific Islanders, African Americans, European Americans, Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, Chinese Americans. This is who we are as the California-Nevada Conference and the Western Jurisdiction of The United Methodist Church.