Bishop Jimmy Nunn has announced the appointment of two new District Superintendents for The Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference (OIMC), effective July 1, 2020.
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Rev. Sharon Yeahquo, Choctaw, will be appointed as the District Superintendent of the Southern area. The Rev. Mike Svitak will serve as District Superintendent of the Northern District. The Rev. Margaret Johnson will retire at the 2020 annual conference. The Rev. July Tecumseh will be appointed to serve an OIMC local church.
“I am excited that Sharon and Mike will be joining the OIMC Cabinet and I know they will provide great leadership to OIMC and our local churches,” he said. “They both have many years of experience in serving local churches across OIMC.”
Rev. Yeahquo is currently serving the Huntinghorse and Cedar Creek churches in the Southwest region. Her first appointment as a local pastor was at the UMC of Apache in 1998. Since that time she has served Huntinghorse, Mary Lee Clark, All Nations Fellowship and the Cedar Creek UMC. Sharon was ordained as an Elder in 2016.
She is married to the Rev. Pershing Yeahquo, Pastor of the Prayer House Association, in Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. She has a daughter Maria and son-in-law Richard Todd Sr., and three grandchildren.
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Rev Mike Svitak, Kiowa, is currently serving New Hope United Methodist Church at Dewey, Oklahoma. Mike began his licensed pastoral ministry at the Cache Mission in 1987. He has served Huntinghorse, Emerson Memorial, D.D. Etchieson, Ware’s Chapel, Seminole Hitchitee, Mt. Scott Comanche and Mt. Scott Kiowa United Methodist Church. He was ordained a Deacon in 1988 and an Elder in 2000. He has served thirty years in OIMC.
Mike is married to Carmen Svitak and has a daughter, Audrey and two sons, Jessie and Matthew. His son John Michael passed in 2007. He and Carmen have eleven grandchildren.
