“Columbia Union Conference president, Dave Weigley, announced today that he will retire, effective March 1, 2024.
“I feel blessed by the incredible opportunity I was given to lead the Columbia Union Conference for nearly 18 years,” Weigley says. “Through God, we have accomplished so much together.”
Weigley also acknowledges that departing from Columbia Union leadership at this time will enable him to address legal issues arising from the ongoing investigation of Kettering Health during the latter years he chaired the board.
Weigley, who has 47 years of ministry and service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has been a champion for evangelism, inviting all members to get involved and “Experience the Mission” together. He also recognized the importance of reaching the Columbia Union’s diverse populations by growing Multilingual Ministries and helping to open doors for women called to the ministry (women’s ordination.”
Observations
Dave is a motorcycling fan who enjoys riding road bikes.
Dave is also a baseball fan, and champion of SDA feminism (WO).
During the 2019 Annual Council meeting in the General Conference auditorium, Weigley told the delegates (who were discussing the implementation of the Compliance Document disciplinary steps on the Columbia and Pacific Union) to hurry up so he could go watch the baseball playoffs. Most people thought it was a pathetic attempt to be humorous during a serious moment.
Under Weigley’s leadership, the Columbia Union received a formal warning from the General Conference Executive Committee for violating the ordination standards of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They are still under that warning, and have done nothing to resolve the problem.
According to WHIO in Dayton, Ohio, Weigley and Fred Manchur are under investigation for abuse of charitable funds through the Kettering Health Network.
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“An elder should be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination. For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled” (Titus 1:6-8).
