The Rev. Dr. Ken Sloane is the UMC's Director of Stewardship & Connectional Ministries, housed at Discipleship Ministries (GBOD) in Nashville, TN. He is a clergy member of the Greater New Jersey Conference, where he served 20+ years in local church ministry (including a successful new church start) and 5 years as the Director of Connectional Ministries. In 2006 he was appointed to serve as Director of Communications Ministry at United Methodist Communications, and traveled extensively across the denomination doing presentations on how to interpret connectional giving to our local churches. He move into his Stewardship role on October 1, 2011, and on January 1, 2016 he was named Interim Associate General Secretary of the Leadership Unit. He lives in Nashville with his wife Bridget; they have four grown children, some of whom may be living with them depending on when you ask.