I'm so happy to become part of the Central UMC Staff. I have helped  present many meetings and workshops here for the United Methodist Women.
    Pat and her husband, Joe, live in Mesa and attend Velda Rose UMC. They have two adult children and two grandchildren in Indiana.
    At the present time, Pat is a Director of the Women's Division, of the General Board of Global Ministry, serving on Membership and  Organizational Development. She also serves as a Director of the General Board of Global Ministry on Finance and Mission Education. She is a Certified Lay Speaker.
    On the Conference level, Pat serves on the Conference Board of Global Ministry and Spiritual Formation.
    Before moving to Arizona from Indiana in 1996, Pat served as a Church Treasurer and Youth Director in the South Indiana Conference.
    Pat says: "I look forward to what I can contribute to the life of Central United Methodist Church, Thank you for this opportunity to be in ministry with you."

                                           Donald E. Morse
                                     Minister of Worship and The Arts 
                                       donmorse@centralumc.com     

     Since 1982, Don Morse has served as Minister of Music, Worship and The Arts at Central United Methodist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, where he coordinates all musical ensembles, worship experiences, the visual arts, theatre arts, and communications.       He is a graduate of Boston University School for the Arts, and The School of Theology at Boston University, with degrees in Sacred Music, Organ Performance, and Choral Conducting, and completed additional graduate study at Westminster Choir College at Princeton.
      He has held regional and national offices in the Music Educator's National Conference in the American Choral Directors Associ-ation, and in the American Guild of Organists.  As a choral conductor, he has been guest clinician for numerous regional and all-state festivals, national   religious gatherings, MENC Choral Festivals, AGO Conven-tions and Services, and ACDA Choral workshops and conventions.
      Mr. Morse is President of the Board of Trustees for the Alliacne for Arts and Understanding, an international organization seeking to foster cultural awareness and acceptance through the fine Arts. He also serves as Festival Director for many of that organization's international Music Festivals. For the Desert Southwest Conference of the United Methodist Church Board of Discipleship, he has served as chair of the Music, Worship, and Arts Section. Additionally, he serves as consultant to many churches and schools in the areas of organ design, staff development, hymnody, and facilities planning.
      Please take a look at the Music and the Arts page for more information about our ministry.

Stephen Hilderbrand
Contemporary Worship Leader