Story by Valerie Morikone
Tuesday morning, April 6, 2021, the Mountain View Conference (MVC) Executive Committee met to begin the work of selecting the next president, a position left vacant when Mike Hewitt accepted a call to the Kentucky-Tennessee Conference. Dave Weigley, Columbia Union Conference’s president, chaired the meeting at the Parkersburg (W.Va.) Seventh-day Adventist church. Thirteen committee members, along with department leaders prayed, discussed, and went through the names that had been submitted by MVC constituents and folks from other conferences. Elder Rick Remmers, Columbia Union Conference Executive Secretary, gave the devotional.
The normal process of selecting a president in the MVC is done at a constituency meeting held every five years, but in between this time frame, the MVC constitution and bylaws states that the conference executive committee will make this decision.
When the committee was ready for their final vote, Tim Bailey was chosen to lead the Mountain View Conference. Bailey has been serving at the Pennsylvania Conference as ministerial director and evangelism coordinator since 2015.
“It feels good to be coming home,” shares Tim Bailey, who began his pastoral ministry in Mountain View Conference in 1987 in the Wheeling and Weirton church (W.Va.) district. After earning his Master of Divinity at Andrews University (Mich.), Bailey pastored the Romney and Franklin (W.Va.) churches and planted a church in Moorefield (W.Va.).
“As I think about Mountain View’s mission statement, I’m excited to see what God is going to do as we work together to grow healthy churches that reflect Christ’s love and compassion in our communities,” shares Bailey. “One of my greatest passions in life is working with people to grow and revitalize God’s churches.”
“I wish to extend a warm welcome to Tim Bailey as our new Conference President and I look forward to working together to advance the mission God has given His church and disciples,” says Victor Zill, MVC secretary/treasurer.