John R. Harrison, Pastor (web manager for smallchurch.net) |
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My name is John Harrison. I live at 203 E. Market in Sheldon, Missouri, where my mailing address is P. O. Box 602, Sheldon, MO 64784. I can be reached by phone at home at 417-884-2677. I have neither wife nor children, but I do have a calico cat named Vashti; I am 57 years old; and I am in my thirteenth year as a United Methodist pastor. Sheldon is a small town (population 487) in western Missouri, about 110 miles south of Kansas City and about 20 miles east of the Kansas state line.
B.S., Education and Psychology, McPherson (Kansas) College, 1964.
M.S., Communication Studies, Fort Hays (Kansas) State University, 1967.
Ph.D., Communication Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1974.
M.Div., Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri, 1989.
I am an ordained elder in the Missouri West Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, and I am currently serving as the pastor of the United Methodist Churches of Sheldon, Bronaugh, and Moundville in the Southwest District of that conference. These three congregations have a combined membership of 234 and a combined average worship attendance of 111: Sheldon (27), Bronaugh (34), and Moundville (50).