MOULTRIE, Ga. â First United Methodist Church of Moultrie recently welcomed a new pastor.
The Rev. Dr. Richard Wright moved to Moultrie in mid-June, a church spokeswoman said, and his first Sunday as the new pastor was June 20.
Wright â who goes by Pastor Rich â is an ordained elder in the South Georgia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, where he has served churches from small to large and from rural to urban. His degrees include a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Columbus College (Columbus, Georgia), a Master of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), and a Doctor of Ministry in Evangelism and Missions from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Austin, Texas).Â