ALLIANCE – As Rev. Coralee Cox prepared to email her final worship plan to her tech team on Wednesday, she felt a swell of emotions. My experience in all of this? she wrote in the email. If you look up the phrase mixed emotions in the online dictionary, I m sure you will find my picture somehow with both a smile and shedding many tears.
Cox, who has served as the elder and lead pastor of Union Avenue United Methodist Church since 2012, is retiring July 1. Her first in-person service in more than a year, which will take place on Sunday, will also be her last.