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Elgin District (United Methodist)
The Elgin District is a geographic area within the Northern Illinois Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and is led by a District Superintendent. With its administrative offices located in Elgin, Illinois, the district encompasses both urban and rural congregations, large and small. The current superintendent is Rev. Darneather Murph-Heath. The district's jurisdiction covers sixty-five local churches, led by seventy-two elders, deacons and licensed local Pastors. The sixty-five churches include two federated congregations, three Hispanic congregations and seven Korean congregations ranging in size from 15 to 1,400 members. The geographic area is fairly large and is broken down into the following by county: *All of McHenry County * Lake County west of Interstate 94, north of and including Lake Bluff * Kane County north of Illinois Route 64 and east of Illinois Route 47 * DuPage County north of Illinois Route 64 * Cook County west of Interstate 294 Interstate ...
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Northern Illinois Conference (United Methodist)
The Northern Illinois Conference is an Annual Conference (regional episcopal area, similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church. This conference serves the northern portion of the state of Illinois, with its administrative offices and the office of the bishop being in the Chicago Temple Building in Chicago, Illinois. It is part of the North Central Jurisdictional Conference. The current bishop is Sally Dyck. Mission Districts The Northern Illinois Annual Conference is further subdivided into 6 smaller regions, called "districts", which provide further administrative functions for the operation of local churches in cooperation with each other. This structure is vital to Methodism, and is referred to as connectionalism. The Districts that comprise the Northern Illinois Conference are: *Aurora *Chicago Northwestern *Chicago Southern * Elgin *DeKalb *Rockford Conference Boundaries Institutions of Higher Learning The Northern Illinois Conference supports and is hos ...
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