Our Bishop
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Bishop Jane Stewart Allen Middleton
Welcome to the Central Pennsylvania Conference website! We’re glad you’re here! As you browse through this website I hope you will catch the excitement we feel about our local churches, our districts and conference and about The United Methodist Church. We are truly taking leaps of faith in order to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
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“Going to Galilee.” When Jesus appeared to the women as the risen Christ, he told them to instruct the disciples to go to Galilee. It was there that they, too, encountered the risen Christ. We are committed to taking a “leap of faith”, to do whatever it takes to reach out to our communities and beyond in order to also encounter Christ in the people and settings in which we do ministry.
If you are looking for a church home, we invite you to click on “church locater” to find one of the 800 Central Pennsylvania United Methodist churches near you. There is a place for you where you can experience God’s love and grace and find a way to make a difference in the world. We offer many doors through which you can enter into a fuller life through the church.
May you be held in God’s care on the journey!
Bishop Jane Allen Middleton
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Jane Stewart Allen Middleton was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Dorothy Mae Nelson and Jack Allen. Because of her father’s work in sales and marketing management for an oil company, they moved frequently living in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
She met her husband, Jack, at Oklahoma State University and they were married October 15, 1961. They have two daughters, Mari and Laura and four grandchildren.
Bishop Middleton received a B.S. in Education in 1962 from Oklahoma State and taught at Sumner High School in St. Louis. She spent many years as a stay-at-home mom, active in her church and community in Oklahoma and Connecticut.
A 1978 graduate of Yale Divinity School, she was ordained deacon in 1977 and elder in 1980 by Bishop Ralph Wardin the New York Annual Conference and served churches in Simsbury, Naugatuck, and New Canaan, CT.
She was responsible for Spiritual Life for clergy and laity on Conference staff and was District Superintendent from 1999 until her election to the episcopacy in the Northeastern Jurisdiction in 2004. She trained at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation and leads retreats and conferences on the spiritual life. Upon her assignment to the Harrisburg Area, her emphasis has been assisting churches in growth and in empowering clergy for effectiveness.
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Bishop Jane Allen Middleton in Fort Worth
Special video message from Bishop Middleton
PRESS RELEASE OF APRIL 29, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Action taken by the General Conference of the United Methodist Church on Monday, April 28, 2008, changed the maximum age of eligibility for assignment of a bishop from 66 to 68. As a result of this action, Bishop Jane Allen Middleton remains eligible for assignment to an Episcopal area of the Northeast Jurisdiction by the Episcopacy Committee of the Jurisdiction. Related UMNS Article
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303 Mulberry Drive
Suite 100
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050 |
Phone: 717 766-7871
Bishop Jane Allen Middleton- bishop@cpcumc.org |
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