Dan is overjoyed and humbled to be back in Prescott and is looking forward to helping the church live into her next steps in ministry to the community and world. Known as a powerful story teller and thought-provoking, Biblically based preacher, Dan is passionate about helping each child of God achieve her or his potential.

Dan enjoys teaching the Bible to people of all ages, making people laugh, and mentoring people into ministry. He believes that every single person is of value in the Kingdom of God and he believes his actions should tell that story more than his words.

Both Simpson UMC and WSU are located in Pullman, Washington. Lesli continues her academic work in the Course of Study a series of classes to further the education of licensed local pastors. Lesli is enrolled in Course of Study through Claremont School of Theology. Lesli has three grown daughters, two of which live in the valley. Lesli is thrilled to be closer to family and especially her grandchildren. She relocated to Arizona in July 2023 and brings more than 31 years of lay experience having served churches in leadership roles in a variety of ways, with many of those being in Youth Ministry, Contemporary Music Ministry, and for several years as Director of Family Life Ministries, working with a large age spectrum.

As the Minister of Congregational Care, Patti serves the congregation and the community in areas of grief care. Soon after her graduation from seminary, Patti established an adult grief group and continues to facilitate grief groups that minister to church and community members.  She is a certified grief counselor. She oversees the Stephen Ministry Program at PUMC and facilitates a weekly Women’s Bible Study. In the community, Patti helps facilitate Heart Song, a children’s bereavement program; volunteers as a chaplain at YRMC; and is a chaplain at a local hospice.

Patti and her husband, Dan, lived in Phoenix and attended First UMC, Phoenix, for 23 years before moving to Prescott in 1999.  During their years in Phoenix, she worked as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for Maricopa County.  She retired from nursing when they moved to Prescott.  She then worked in retail until her call to ministry. Patti and Dan have a married daughter and a grandson who also live in Prescott.

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For the past six years, she served as a Hospice Chaplain, earned a Specialty Certificate in Palliative Care Chaplaincy and became a Certified Master Chaplain through the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security. She volunteers as a Palliative Care Chaplain at Yavapai Regional Medical Center.

Leigh and her husband Sam moved to Prescott in 1988 and have been members of PUMC almost as long! They both play in the church's Gospel Band on Saturday evenings. Sam is a physician and serves at Yavapai Regional Medical Center as the Director of Outpatient Palliative Care Medicine. Leigh and Sam are very proud of their two adult children; Jeff and his wife live in Denver, Colorado and Kate is living in Portland, Oregon.

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While he is not making music, Jacob enjoys hiking and camping, riding his motorcycle, spending time with friends and family, and hanging out with his dog Barney. He is very excited to be a member of the PUMC family!

Janet has taught in public schools all ages at one time or at the other from kindergarten through high school, and has maintained a studio of piano students everywhere she has lived.

After becoming a Methodist in 1983 Janet was the Music Director at Farmington, New Mexico, Renton and Bellevue, Washington, as well as an Education Director at Seattle First United Methodist. She attended the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas two summers and got mid-way through a Masters in Church Music at Seattle Pacific University.

Janet has two grown children, Bryant and Chrissy, who live in California and Washington respectively. Moving back to the Southwest has been a dream of Janet’s for many years and she is delighted to be close to her mother and two sisters who live nearby. She looks forward to working and worshiping with the friendly congregation here at Prescott UMC.

Devin loves people, the mission of the Church, and her job as office manager. Hobbies include gardening, fishing, boating, swimming, camping and doing anything fun that involves family (Granny and Dereck) and, of course, her dog.

A second-generation native of California, Ken began a career in publishing and marketing in metro-Los Angeles. Following college, he started MultiComm as a local marcom and advertising agency that included a national and international clientele. He sold his interest and moved on to become a local community newspaper publisher and editor in northern California. About a decade later he became general manager/SVP of an international publishing firm in Carmel, where he first retired.

With his wife Karen and two children, Ken relocated the family to Arizona (Ahwatukee/Phoenix) in 2004. They came to Prescott in 2008 where Karen joined the staff at Yavapai College (and its Foundation) and Ken became the media and marketing manager at Sharlot Hall Museum, positions they held until 2021 when they both retired.

Family-wise, they are parents of son Jeff (an insurance professional in Chandler, AZ) and daughter Jenn (a middle-school teacher in Las Vegas, NV) – all of whom are active in Lions, Scouts, and multiple other organizations.

Paul joined the army and was stationed in Korea, Fort Drum (New York), and had tours in Kosovo and Iraq earning the rank of E6 (staff sargeant).

Following his discharge in 2011, he did medical transport driving and then construction prior to working with the Prescott Unified School District. Paul joined the PUMC staff in May, 2022.