In the News ... "It took a while but Wylie UMC pastor Hatcher takes 'final step'"

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By Loretta Fulton, Reporter
• Abilene Reporter-News

ABILENE, TEXAS - After spending parts of 14 summers at Duke Divinity School, Cisco College, McMurry University and Asbury Theological Seminary, Jeff Hatcher finally has made it.

On June 7, Hatcher, who is pastor of Wylie United Methodist Church, was ordained as an elder in full connection — a United Methodist clergy classification — during the annual meeting of the church’s Northwest Texas Conference. The ordination, presided over by Bishop W. Earl Bledsoe, capped a 17-year journey for Hatcher ...

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