Past Ministers

The Following Ministers Have Served Leola United Methodist Church

1861 Joseph N Magee

1863 W. W. McMichael

1866 B. T. String

J. C. Wood

1868 A. W. Wiggins

John W. Wright

1869 H. B. Mauger

1871 Joseph Gregg

N. Turner

1874 Samuel Horwell

1876 Edward Divine

1877 John Wesley Geiger

1879 F. M. Brady

1881 Charles S. Mervine

1882 Hiram J Illick

1884 W. P. Clark

1885 A. M. Strayhorn

1886 William Vanderherchen

1887 John A. Cooper

1890 G. S. Kerr

1893 J. S. McKinlay

1895 Robert E. Johnson

1898 J. Emmitt Deacon

1902 J. F. Kingsley

1904 Edward W. Rushton

N.H. Charge

1905 Albert Stork

1906 H. Foster Hamer

1908 George H Ketterer

1910 Leo P. Zook

1910 E. V. Wright

1911 Samuel R. Dout

1914 James L. Hunt

1915 G. Wilkins Tovey

1917 Fred A. Tyson

1919 Charles E. Boraston

1920 Eugene B. Harshberger

1922 Harry A. Swartz

1924 Howard A. Brettle

1928 Horace N. Olewiler

1931 Maurice F. Montgomery

1932 Robert H. Comly

1935 E. Leroy Eberhart

1938 C. Edwin Franke

1940 Lester B. Brubaker

1942 Henry R. Bauers

1945 Ralph H. Manwiller

1947 Leola became a station assuming full responsibility for pastor's support

1948 Howard W. Blackburn

1950 Donald F. Miller

1956 William C. Carroll

1958 Merritt Godshalk

1963 Robert L. Jones

1968 Philip F. Palmer

1969 C. Ross Whitby

1978 Paul R. Hagenberger

1983 Alfred Johnson

1986 Albert D. Frank

1996 David T. Ryan

2003 Steven W. Rodgers

2005 John Phillip Gudikunst

2010 Tim Smith

2016 Tom Fries

2022 David T. Ryan