With the knowledge and approval of our Staff-Parish Relations Committee and the Administrative Council, an Intern from the Claremont School of Theology will be joining us for eight months beginning next September. As a part of a person’s training to enter the Ordained Ministry of the United Methodist Church, they must take a class where they go and actually work with a local church. They are expected to preach on occassion, attend meetings from time-to-time and do other things that may be asked by the local church.

Our Intern’s name is Val Weise, who has completed her first year of a
three-year seminary program after having been a teacher for twenty years. Val is a member of the First United Methodist Church of Riverside, where she is their Youth Director and a member of their Bell Choir. However, while Val is with us, she will be focusing most of her attention upon our ‘Strategic Plan for Growth’ as well as other areas of the church. We look forward to meeting Val in September as we become a part of her training, and as she gives to us her gifts
as well.

(NOTE: The Riverside District Board of Congregational Development approved our $5,000 request for funding this Intern to our church, without which this would not have been possible. This same Board of Congregational Development also granted us $55,000 to pay the
interest for two years on one of our mortgages.)