New DS in SWO

[Eric Frey]

You heard it first here! Rev Dr Doug Van Nest. Blessings Doug

[Ryan Scott]

You heard it first here! Rev Dr Doug Van Nest. Blessings Doug

Which SWO is this?

[Sue Pyles]

I just read that Steve Ward of Coshocton, Ohio was elected on the fifth ballot to be the new DS of North Central Ohio.

[Pete Vecchi]

SWO in this case is Southwestern Ohio District.

Douglas Van Nest has served as the District Secretary for the past 4 years, and has been the Pastor of West Carrollton Church of the Nazarene.

As an evangelist, I had the opportunity to attend several District Assemblies where a new DS was being elected (meaning districts other than my home district). This is also the second time that I've been at an assmbly of SWO District where a DS has been elected (the last one here was 10 years ago, when our current DS, Carlton Hansen was elected).

In my memory, this was the fewest number of ballots required to have one person receive a 2/3 majority vote; Doug Van Nest was elected on the 6th ballot, after having led every ballot previous to that.

In the next post, I'll post some of the numbers

[Pete Vecchi]

Here are some of the results from the 6 ballots taken for Southwestern Ohio District DS today:

Ballot 1 -- 369 Votes Cast, 4 invalid ballots, 246 needed to elect Only the top 5 are listed here):

Doug Van Nest (District Secretary; Pastor of West Carrollton Church of the Nazarene) -- 74;

Bob Mahaffey (Pastor of West Chester Church of the Nazarene) -- 48;

Keven Wentworth (Pastor of Dayton Beavercreek Church of the Nazarene) -- 38;

Rick Harvey (Pastor of Cincinnati Springdale Church of the Nazarene) -- 32;

Harold Graves, Jr., (President of Nazarene Bible College) -- 31

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Ballot 2 -- 414 Votes Cast, 0 invalid ballots, 275 needed to elect (Only the top 5 are listed here):

Doug Van Nest -- 132;

Bob Mahaffey -- 68;

Keven Wentworth -- 46;

Harold Graves, Jr. -- 46;

Rick Harvey -- 42

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Ballot 3 -- 421 Votes Cast, 0 invalid ballots, 281 needed to elect (Only the top 4 are listed here):

Doug Van Nest -- 198;

Bob Mahaffey -- 78;

Harold Graves, Jr. -- 46;

Keven Wentworth -- 45

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Ballot 4 -- 421 Votes Cast, 0 invalid ballots, 281 needed to elect (Only the top 4 are listed here):

Doug Van Nest -- 232;

Bob Mahaffey -- 82;

Harold Graves, Jr. -- 49;

Keven Wentworth -- 40

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At this point, Harold Graves Jr. asked to address the Assembly, and said that he felt honored that people were voting for him, but that he felt he was already serving where God wants him to be at Nazarene Bible College, and said that if elected to the SWO DS position, he would not serve.

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Ballot 5 -- 397 Votes Cast, 0 invalid ballots, 265 needed to elect (Only the top 3 are listed here):

Doug Van Nest -- 259;

Bob Mahaffey -- 76;

Keven Wentworth -- 47

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Ballot 6 -- 418 Votes Cast, 0 invalid ballots, 279 needed to elect (Only the top 2 are listed here):

Doug Van Nest -- 302;

Bob Mahaffey -- 66;

[Sara Sheppard]

I don't know him but I do know Bob Mahaffey and have enormous respect for he and his wife. He was my pastor at Grace Church of the Nazarene many years ago.

Sara

[Carol Kane]

Rick and I are doing a happy dance with this election of our new DS.
Of course we would be doing the happy dance if it were Bob and Elaine or Keven and Pam. I sense a change in a new direction for our district,
YEAH!

[Barb Bouldrey]

New DS of North Central Ohio is Steve Ward. John and Steve were at ONU together.

Barb

[Gina Stevenson]

New DS of North Central Ohio is Steve Ward. John and Steve were at ONU together.

Barb

Aha! You confirmed what I tho't when I first saw, "Steve Ward." Tho't that name sounded familiar. Since I was there when y'all were, guess I was there when Steve was, too. ;)

[Pete Vecchi]

New DS of North Central Ohio is Steve Ward. John and Steve were at ONU together.

Barb

Steve Ward received some votes for the Southwestern Ohio DS the same week he'd already been elected NCO DS.

Steve's brother, Stan, just moved to the SWO District from NCO a little over a year ago to serve as the Pastor of Dayton First Church of the Nazarene.

[Pete Vecchi]

Here's a link to the website of the church Doug Van Nest has pastored for the past two years:

http://www.wccn.net/templates/System/details.asp?id=25157&PID=103995&Style=

The top picture is of Doug and his wife, Lisa.