{"id":11720,"date":"2024-05-15T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/?p=11720"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:35:54","slug":"pastor-vathanak-transferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/pastor-vathanak-transferred","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Vathanak Transferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VathanakSermon-cropped-bright.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11443 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VathanakSermon-cropped-bright.jpg?resize=232%2C229&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VathanakSermon-cropped-bright.jpg?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VathanakSermon-cropped-bright.jpg?w=729&amp;ssl=1 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">As United Methodists, we know that we support an itinerant ministry of pastors, but it is with heavy hearts that we must say good bye to Pastor <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr> Heang and his family. Bishop Carca\u00f1o has appointed Pastor <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr> Heang to serve Buena Vista <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='United Methodist Church'>UMC<\/abbr> in Alameda CA effective July 1, 2024. Pastor <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr> has served <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> for 3 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Our June 23rd service will be a special combined service followed by a farewell pot luck luncheon\u00a0 for Pastor <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr>. This will be his last Sunday at <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"> We welcome Rev. Falamao Samate who will come to us on July 1st from Tehachapi Valley United Methodist\u00a0 Church<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/falamaosamate.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11721\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/falamaosamate.jpg?resize=194%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Falamao Samate\" width=\"194\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/falamaosamate.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/falamaosamate.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/falamaosamate.jpg?w=399&amp;ssl=1 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some Contacts:<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Minerva Carcano<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:bishopmc@calnevumc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bishopmc@calnevumc.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>District Superintendent David Niu<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:davidn@calnevumc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">davidn@calnevumc.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>California-Nevada United Methodist Conference<br \/>\n1350 Halyard Drive<br \/>\nWest Sacramento, CA 95691<br \/>\n(916) 374-1500<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Last updated: August 12, 2024 at 11:35 am<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As United Methodists, we know that we support an itinerant ministry of pastors, but it is with heavy hearts that we must say good bye to Pastor <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr> Heang and his family. Bishop Carca\u00f1o has appointed Pastor <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr> Heang to serve Buena Vista <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='United Methodist Church'>UMC<\/abbr> in Alameda CA effective July 1, 2024. Pastor <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr> has served [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-what-happened-event-over","8":"category-announcements","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/VathanakSermon-cropped-e1715823580387.jpg?fit=239%2C118&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 23:09:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}