Desoto County Cluster News

June 02 2020

Dear Cluster Members,
Hope this finds you and your families well and coping in these different times.
We called off our March and May meetings because of the virus. We are looking at a July 20,
2020, meeting at Love UMC. We can tell closer to that date if we can safely have a physical
meeting. Love UMC is not meeting physically in the church building until at least July 5.
Cheryl Denley and I met with Dr. David Reed, president of Northwest Community College,
Desoto Center, in March. He was very encouraging about our idea of providing exam survival
kits to students one day of exam week the first week of May. Of course that didn’t happen as
the students were having on-line classes because of the virus.
We also discussed with Dr. Reed our Cluster hosting a Welcome-Back-To-School luncheon the
first week students are back this fall. I’ve called several times and get a recording to leave a
message. We will contact them later in the summer to see if such a luncheon is a possibility.
I see on FB that Bishop Swanson has been reappointed to the Mississippi Conference until the
Southeast Jurisdictional meeting is held in November, 2021. The only change in pastoral
appointments in Senatobia District that I see is that David Huffman is now in the Seashore
District.
The new pastor at Hinds Chapel/Horn Lake is Rev. Creighton White.
Please put July 20 on you calendar. We will let you know by the first of July is this meeting can
take place.
Continue to be safe.
Barbara Jepsen
Cluster Chairman