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The South Central Jurisdiction of the UMC includes 15 conferences and spans 8 states: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. A portion of the Navajo Indian Nation in northeast Arizona was placed in the SCJ in 1968. About 1,830,000 United Methodists belong to roughly 6,400 SCJ local churches.
The SCJ is governed by its Mission Council, which includes representatives from each Annual Conference. Staff members carry out the ongoing work of the SCJ.
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Dr. David Severe
Director of Mission & Administration
Phone: 405-202-9846
E-mail: scjdirector@scjumc.org
Dr. Severe is a retired elder of the Oklahoma Annual Conference. He holds degrees from Oklahoma City University and SMU.
He served churches in Oklahoma and was Director of Connectional Ministries for 14 years in Oklahoma.
Severe was a delegate to 8 Jurisdictional Conferences and 7 General Conferences.
He is married to Paula, a retired public school teacher, and they have two children, four grandchildren, and one great grandchild.
In May of 2005 he became the part-time Director of Mission and Administration. He lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Ms. Debbie Vest
Director of VIM Ministries
Phone: 913-568-8826
E-mail: vimscj@sbcglobal.net
Debbie has been Director of United Methodist Volunteers in Mission for the South Central Jurisdiction since March, 2008. She is one of five directors--one for each jurisdiction within the Church--and serves as the coordinator of UMVIM activities, and the resource person, for the fifteen conferences within the nine states that comprise the South Central Jurisdiction. She enjoys the challenges of the position, and finds the work extremely rewarding.
Debbie has been involved in UMC mission work most of her adult life. Her mission experience began with local, national and international mission experience with her local UM churches, where she also served as Mission Committee chair for 10 years. She has been on numerous mission trips to Poland, Macedonia and Mexico. She has led seminars at Eastern Europe and the Balkans Consultations, and was co-founder of the Kansas East Conference’s Poland Task Group where she served for 16 years. She currently serves as an Advocate for the In Mission Together program for Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She was the first woman invited to address the UMC of Poland’s Annual Conference. She currently serves as a Special Advocate for the In Mission Together program for Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Debbie holds an Associate of Arts degree from College of DuPage (Illinois). She and husband Bill have two children: Michael, a director of media relations, who lives with wife Kristie in Chicago; and Jennifer, an account managerfor a marketing firm in New York. Debbie and Bill live in Lee's Summit, Mo.
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Dr. Chung Keun Kim
Korean-American Ministries
Phone: 972-522-9805
E-mail: scjkoreanmin@yahoo.com
Rev. Kim is a retired elder from the Southwest Texas Annual Conference
He was ordained by the Southern Conference of the Korean Methodist Church and transferred his conference membership to the Southwest Texas Conference in 1988.
He served from 1988 ti 2004 as the pastor of the Korean Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas
Since retirement he and his wife Young Joo live in Flower Mound, TX. They have three adult children.
In July of 2005 he assumed the volunteer position of Director of Korean Ministries for the South Central Jurisdiction.
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Reverend Bill Hedges
Jurisdictional Archivist
E-mail: scjarchives@aol.com
Following 30 years as historian of the Texas Annual conference, the Rev. Bill Hedges remains a consultant in the area of Texas Methodist History and other related fields of research.
After serving churches in East Texas for more than 42 years, Bill retired in December 2003. In the fall of 2008, he became the archivist for the South Central Jurisdiction of the United
Methodist Church.
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