North Georgia Annual Conference

The North Georgia Conference is an Annual Conference (a regional episcopal area, similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church. This conference serves the northern half of the state of Georgia, with its administrative offices and the office of the bishop located in Norcross, GA. It is part of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. The bishop is Sue Haupert-Johnson.

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Bishops

Bishop B. Michael Watson began service on September 7, 2008.

  • 2016 - Current: Sue Haupert-Johnson

Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson began service on September 1, 2016.

Districts

The North Georgia Annual Conference is further subdivided into 12 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 North Georgia Conference are:

  • Atlanta-College Park
  • Atlanta-Decatur-Oxford
  • Atlanta-Emory
  • Atlanta-Marietta
  • Atlanta-Roswell
  • Athens-Elberton
  • Augusta
  • Gainesville
  • Griffin
  • LaGrange
  • Northwest
  • Rome-Carrollton
gollark: I think it would be much more useful to actually teach basic computer use. How to solve basic problems (application of the search engine). What all the various cables are for. Basic computer maintenence.
gollark: They also gave people custom hardware (micro:bits), which probably isn't great either since people won't realize you can just do programming stuff on a regular home computer or laptop to automate annoying tasks and whatnot.
gollark: But then they only get taught random details about some car components, and then build cars out of paper.
gollark: It's like if someone said "cars are vital to the modern economy, so our children need to learn how to ~~use cars~~ build cars from scratch".
gollark: Not one which needs to be taught in schools over possibly more important things (not that schools teach many important things).

See also
  • Annual Conferences of the United Methodist Church
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