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Pastor Mike has been serving with us in the United Methodist Church of Montague since July 1, 2017. Before arriving here, he served for six years at the Faith United Methodist Church in Edmore and six years before that at the three-point charge of the Paris, Third Avenue Big Rapids and Rodney UMCs. Pastor Anne, Mike’s wife, is also a United Methodist pastor. She served the Amble UMC for over eight years, and is presently living in our parsonage while serving the United Methodist Churches in both Mears and Shelby. Pastor Mike has two children (Amber and Spencer Riegler), five granddaughters, (Cyerra, Savanna, Ashley, Audrey and Sydney) and two great-grandchildren (Hazel and River Michael). He enjoys reading, travel, creative writing when there is time, and the occasional round of golf. However, mostly he is happy and blessed to be our pastor, and thanks God daily for calling him to the pastorate and placing him here with us. Pastor Mike is thankful for what has happened here so far, and excited and enthused for what is coming next. |
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Contralto Gwenneth Bean became our Director of Music fall 2018. She was brought up at Temple UMC in Muskegon Hts., and graduated from Mona Shores High School in '69. After college, she sang around Western MI for a few years then moved on to Chicago and NYC to further her musical career. She signed on with the Columbia Artists Management rooster after her Carnegie Hall Debut in '87. But was seen on PBS from Chicago Lyric in '84 and on "Live from the Capitol" July 4th in '85 with the late Leonard Bernstein. During her professional singing career, she has performed 6 seasons with the Metropolitan Opera, and returned many times to Chicago Lyric Opera, Dallas, Miami, Denver, Seattle, Santa Fe, San Francisco, throughout Europe, Canada and Japan, etc. She shared the stage with Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Kathleen Battle, etc. to name a few and was soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas, Seattle, LA, etc. and worked under the batons of many well known conductors. But the late Leonard Bernstein was a great mentor in her life and she was blessed to have worked with him several times. She has been heard on many Texaco radio broadcasts, Sirius radio, and performed on several "Live from Lincoln Center" PBS performances. She was also soloist in Carnegie Hall eleven times and did some off Broadway performances of Girl Crazy, Carousel, and The Sound of Music. She has returned back home to Michigan and has performed with GR Symphony and Opera GR three times plus singing Messiah performances all around the area. She teaches private voice lessons in the area and enjoys being back in the United Methodist Church. She has 4 CD's available....Behold his Glory, The Contralto Voice, The Best Gift (Christmas) and Gwenneth sings Her Favorites. She also sings the National Anthem at sporting events and sings as much as she can for many charities she believes in.
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Meet Our Christian Education Director:
Ruth Tuttle
Phone: (517) 902-6112
E-mail: ratuttle69@ charter.net
E-mail: ratuttle69@ charter.net
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Phone: (231) 894-5789
Fax: (231) 894-2073 E-mail: montagueumc@gmail.com |
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