{"id":6298,"date":"2014-02-10T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=6298"},"modified":"2014-02-14T10:19:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:19:02","slug":"bishop-hagiya-announces-new-appointment-to-pnw-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/bishop-hagiya-announces-new-appointment-to-pnw-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Hagiya Announces New Appointment to PNW Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rev.<\/a>
Rev. Cara Scriven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bishop Grant Hagiya has announced the appointment of Rev. Cara Scriven as the new\u00a0Tacoma District<\/a>\u00a0Superintendent effective July 1. Rev. Scriven currently serves as pastor of\u00a0Redmond United Methodist Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Throughout her ministry, Rev. Cara Scriven has demonstrated the ability to grow and move churches toward vitality,” said Bishop Hagiya. “This ability, coupled with her keen intellect and high emotional intelligence, makes her a logical choice for the Tacoma District Superintendent. I have also seen the need for the Cabinet to reflect a younger demographic, and Cara is one of the strongest leaders of our young clergy in the annual conference. I am excited by the vision and energy she will bring to the annual conference and district!”<\/p>\n

A native of Massachusetts, Cara graduated from\u00a0Northland College<\/a>\u00a0in Ashland, WI and spent several years working in marketing positions in Boston and then Portland, OR. She was a member of\u00a0Vancouver First UMC<\/a>\u00a0as she began work toward an M.Div. from\u00a0Iliff School of Theology<\/a>. In Denver, she was student pastor at Englewood UMC.<\/p>\n

In the PNW, Cara has served as Associate Pastor at\u00a0Wenatchee First UMC<\/a>\u00a0from ’07 to ’09, Pastor at Seattle:\u00a0Magnolia UMC<\/a>\u00a0from ’09 to ’11, and Senior Pastor at Redmond UMC since 2011. During this time she has chaired the Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministry, serves of the Seattle District Committee on the Superintendency, sat on the site advisory board at\u00a0Lazy F Camp<\/a>, and spends part of each summer as a camp pastor for various age-level camps.<\/p>\n

Cara and her husband, Patrick, enjoy spending their quiet time raising three adorable, but not so quiet, children.<\/p>\n

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The Tacoma District covers a geographical area from Auburn south to Littlerock, east from Bonney Lake and Eatonville to the west including Silverdale and Shelton and up to Kingston.\u00a0 A diverse area with a diverse church membership including inner city, suburban and rural churches, the Tacoma District is one of six missional hubs that comprise the Pacific Northwest Conference of The United Methodist Church.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Image Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0“Tacoma Narrows Bridge,”\u00a0some rights reserved<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0SheldonPhotography<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bishop Grant Hagiya has announced the appointment of Rev. Cara Scriven as the new\u00a0Tacoma District\u00a0Superintendent effective July 1. Rev. Scriven currently serves as pastor of\u00a0Redmond United Methodist Church. “Throughout her ministry, Rev. Cara Scriven has demonstrated the ability to grow and move churches toward vitality,” said Bishop Hagiya. “This ability, coupled with her keen intellect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":6302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[303],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-appointments"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tacomaDistrict.jpg?fit=700%2C357&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-1DA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6298"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6358,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6298\/revisions\/6358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}