It’s with great reluctance that we say goodbye to Pastor Nathan and Michelle Cranson. After serving the Albia, Centerville and Ottumwa churches in Iowa for the past four years, they have accepted a call to the Rocky Mountain Conference.

Nathan was instrumental in helping create a video studio at Sunnydale Academy that will serve the conference well for years to come, and he and Michelle were also heavily involved with youth ministry at camp meetings and Iowa youth rallies.

Though they will be greatly missed, the conference wishes the Cransons well as they begin this new chapter in ministry that allows them to be closer to family. Please join us in praying for them as they make this transition.

Lee Rochholz is ministerial director for the Iowa-Missouri Conference.