The Alabama – West Florida Conference “Connecting Our Resources and Empowerment” (CORE) Team is a common table, where chairpersons and leaders from all the Boards and Councils come together to evaluate and continually revise and refine our ministry as an annual conference.

Guided by our Conference “MVP” statement, this flexible and responsive team can allocate resources, discover new persons for service and constantly hold one another accountable to the vision.

This team is the core of the annual conference structure, providing a connecting link among all the leadership teams, boards, and councils in our work.

In addition, the CORE team provides a comprehensive program of nurture, outreach, and witness, along with leadership training, and the planning and administration of the conference’s organizational and temporal life, in accordance with the mission of the United Methodist Church.

2013 Meeting Dates:

• Thursday, September 5, 9:30 am gathering; 10 am business, Blue Lake
  
• Tuesday, December 3, 9:30 am gathering; 10 am business, Montgomery First
  

CORE Team Resources

 Board/Agency Mileage Reimbursment Form

 Plan of Organization - Adopted June 2002

MEMBERS

Conference Lay Leader, Co-Chairperson:
     Dr. Steve Furr
Director of Connectional Ministries, Co-Chairperson: 
     Rev. R. Neil McDavid
Cabinet Representative:  Rev. Tonya Elmore
President UMW:  Betty Helms
President UMM:  John Croft
UMY Representative:   TBD
Chair, Board of Pension and Health Benefits: 
     Rev. Robert C. McKibben
President, Council on Finance and Administration:       Rev. Robbins Sims
Chair, Board of Ordained Ministry: 
     Rev. Libba Stinson
Chair, Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministries:  Rev. Rob Couch
Chair, Board of Discipleship:  Barbara Sadler
Chair, Board of Global Ministries:  Rev. Nancy Hart
Chair, Board of Church and Society:  Harry Hodges
Chair, Board of Congregational Development: 
     June Thomason
Chair, Town and Country Commission: 
     Rev. Sam Williams
Chair, Board of Advocacy and Ethnic Ministries: 
     Rev. Dunford Cole
President, Conference Board of Trustees: 
     Rev. Debora Bishop
Chair, Commission on Equitable Compensation: 
     Rev. Matt Mobley
Chair, Conference Policies and Personnel Committee:  Susan Kunde 
At-Large Members:  James Wilcox (08), Dr. Shirley Woodie (12), Rev. Bob Sweet (08), Beverly Maddox (12), Rev. Jimmy DuFriend (08), Pat Caylor (08), Helen Edwards (08)

Ex-Officio Members (Voice, No Vote)
Ex-Officio Members (Voice, No Vote)
Resident Bishop:  Bishop Paul L. Leeland
The Conference Secretary:  Dr. Neil Epler
Treasurer and Director of Administrative Services: 
     Frank S.  Dunnewind
Director of Natural Church Development: 
     Barbara Sadler
Director of Communications:  Mary Catherine Phillips
Director of Missions and Advocacy:  Susan Hunt
Director of Blue Lake:  Phyllis Murray
Director of Discipleship Ministries: 
     Rev. Frederick Outlaw
Coordinator of Hispanic-Latino Ministries: 
     Martha Rovira
Assistant to the Bishop and Director of Ministerial Services:  Rev. June Jernigan