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Retiring Pastor Ends Long Shawnee UMC Ministry
The Rev. Jerry Harnden will retire as senior pastor of Shawnee United Methodist Church this Sunday marking a full circle from baptism at the church in 1942 to ordination and decades of service. A Baker University graduate and St Paul Theology alumnus, he earned an honorary Baker doctorate this year and served across Kansas in multiple United Methodist churches and the East Conference before planning to retire to a family farm near Ottawa with his wife DeAnn.
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Jerry Harnden
Shawnee
Kansas United Methodist
Baldwin
Edgerton
Richmond-Princeton
Greeley
Marysville
Kansas City
Kan
Ottawa
Kansas Methodist East Conference
DeAnn