Lake Junaluska history

A larger hotel, the Junaluska Inn, was built in 1917 but burned the following year.

In 1923, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, built a large classroom building, Shackford Hall, at the opposite end of the lake.

The assembly went into bankruptcy during the Great Depression, but in 1936 the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized a "Save Junaluska" campaign, which raised $100,000 and brought the organization out of debt.

The World Methodist Council moved its offices from New York to Lake Junaluska in 1955 (see related story).

Bishop Kenneth Carder was elected to the episcopacy in 1992 by the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference of the U.M. Church.

Coming to the US in 1997, he earned a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University and a Doctor of Ministry at Duke Divinity School.

Since 2010, he has served as the director of Central American Methodist Course of Study, which trains Methodist pastors who have not earned a formal Master of Divinity degree in such places as El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Most recently, Jae has served as pastor of Calvary UMC in Charlotte since 2013.

Reverend Warren is the Senior Pastor of First UMC of Miami Florida appointed in July of 2015.

In October 2017, he met with Pope Francis as part of a delegation from the Methodist-Catholic Dialogue and presented the pope with a Spanish translation he created of the dialogue’s bilateral statement.

He became director of the Center for Reconciliation in 2018.