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Vernon R. Snider

Retired Clergy Member of Kansas West Annual Conference


1928 September 25 Date of birth
Place: Wichita Falls, Texas
Parents: Jude Raymond Snider and Fannie Bell Hightower Snider.
1929 March 31 Baptized on Easter Sunday with water from the River Jordan in First Methodist Church,
Wichita Falls, Texas.
1941 April 6 Palm Sunday - Profession of faith and joined the church.
1946 May 12 Dedicated life to full time Christian Ministry in High School Senior Year.
May 16 Received Local Preacher's License by the Wichita Falls District of the North Texas Annual Conference.
May 18 Preached first sermon at evening service of Burkburnet Methodist Church, Burkburnet, Texas .
May 30 Wichita Falls High School Commencement Exercises.

September - entered Hardin Junior College, Wichita Falls, Texas

1948 May 19 Commencement Exercises at Hardin Junior College

September Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Junior Year.

1950 February 1 Commencement Exercises - Bachelor of Arts Degree.
March 1 Entered Perkins School of Theology, S. M. U., Dallas, Texas.
June 1 Member "On Trial" in the North Texas Annual Conference

Appointed to attend school.

1952 June 8 Ordained Deacon in North Texas Annual Conference by Bishop William C. Martin.
1953 June 2 Bachelor of Divinity Degree from Perkins School of Theology, S. M. U., Dallas, Texas

Appointed to the Boxelder-King Memorial - Garland Chapel Circuit in the Paris District of the North Texas Annual Conference.

August 16 Wedding with Shirley Fay Schuetz at First Methodist Church in Great Bend, Kansas
in a double-wedding ceremony with Lou Ann Schuetz (Shirley's younger sister), and John Millard, Hoisington, Kansas.
1954 June1 Appointed to the Bluegrove-Deer Creek Circuit.
August 26 Timothy Ray Snider was born in Henrietta, Texas.
1955 June 5 Ordained Elder in the North Texas Annual Conference by Bishop William C. Martin

Appointed to Valley View Methodist Church

August 1 Transferred to Central Kansas Annual Conference.

Appointed to First Methodist Church, Great Bend, as Associate Pastor

1956 March 1 Peter David Snider was born in Great Bend, Kansas.
1958 June 1 Appointed to Claflin Methodist Church, Claflin, Kansas
1959 July 3 Deborah Ann Snider was born in Hoisington, Kansas
1960 June 1 Appointed to Hope Methodist Church, Hope, Kansas
1963 June 1 Appointed to the First Methodist Church, Minneola, Kansas
1965 August 1 Transferred to Kansas East Annual Conference

Appointed to Old Mission Methodist Church as Associate Pastor

1968 June 1 The Methodist Church became the United Methodist Church

Central Kansas Conference of the Methodist Church became Kansas West Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Transferred to Kansas West Annual Conference

Appointed to Canton-Roxbury United Methodist Charge, Canton, Kansas

1970 June 1 Gove-Grainfield - Built new parsonage in 1972
1973 June 1 Mankato-Montrose, Mankato, Kansas
1976 June 1 Mankato-Burr Oak, Mankato, Kansas
1977 June 1 Osborne-Alton - first appointment for the combined churches Osborne, Kansas
1979 June 1 Lincoln-Beverly, Lincoln, Kansas
1984 June 1 Scott City, Associate, Scott City, Kansas
1986 June 1 Tribune, Kansas and Towner, Colorado, Tribune, Kansas
1989 July 1 WaKeeney-Prairie Home, WaKeeney, Kansas
1995 July 1 Retired to Mankato, Kansas

Appointed to Part Time Salem United Methodist Church, Jewell, Kansas

2002 March 31 Salem U.M. C. Closed on Easter Sunday after 130 years of service.
April 1 Retired permanently.

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