Dan R. Dick currently serves as Assistant to the Bishop with the Wisconsin Annual Conference. He served as the Director of Connectional Ministries from 2009 to 2015.  Dan worked for Discipleship Ministries in Nashville, Tennessee, for 15 years – providing resources in stewardship, leadership development, spiritual formation, congregational and conference planning, spiritual direction, spiritual gifts discovery and conflict transformation. Author of 14 books and hundreds of articles, he continues to author the blog, United Methodeviations (doroteos2@wordpress.com), and has been a speaker and teacher around the world.