Omansiek, William W.

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VOLUME IX

JULY 1,1974

NUMBER 12

lntroducin

Our new Associate Pastor, Reverend
On June 16 , Bill Omansiek (pro no unced
o-MAN-sick) came to begin his pastorship with
us at Saint James. We welcome him and his
wife , Linda , and their two daughters Kathy, 3
years o ld , and Holly , six months old.
Bill comes from the Detroit area ; he graduated from Warren High School. l-Ie earned his
B.A . from University of Michigan ; major area of
study was Human Psychology. At Duke Un iversity Divinity School , Durham, North Carolina,
he earned his Master of Divinity degree.
Bill had clinical training at Central Prison,
Raleigh , North Carolina; s pent two and a half
years at Me thodist Children's Home in Raleigh

William Omansiek, and his family.
as recreation leader and houseparent; spent one
and a half years at Flint Park, Flint, Michigan,
as Past or of an inner city Church, working with
family counseling, visiting, and community
d ro p-in center. Reverend Omansiek has just
completed three years at Methodist Children 's
Home Society in Detroit, where he was
Chaplain. The program a t Methodist Children's
Home dealt with severe family problems; involving residential trea tment ce nter with special
school, pre-school, day care , unwed mothers
services, outpatient family counseling to
families in crisis. l-Ie comes to Saint James with
a strong background in programs for child ren
and fam ilies, with an emphasis in community
involve ment.

Our July issue of the DOER comes to you, compliments of Saint James' Cub Pack 211, who donated the cost
of printing. Aspecial and big THANKS to them for their gift to all of us this summer season.

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THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
DETROIT CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS
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Adrian , Michigan

J une 12 , 1971
Copy :

Louis Reyner

IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
Rev. William

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Omansiek, pastor of the Flint Park United

Methodist Church , was advanced to the office of Elder from the
office of Deacon at the 130th Annual Session of the Michigan
Conference at Adrian, Mich . on June 8, 1971.

He was assigned

chaplain of Children's Village in Detroit by Bishop Dwight E.
Loder.
Recommended to preach by First Church of Warren, Rev. Omansiek became a probationary member of the Annual Conference in 1967.
He was granted his B. A. degree from the University of Michigan
in 1966.

He received his Ma s t er of Divinity degree from Duke

Divinity School of Dur ham, N. C. in 1970.

He has served on the

Social Concerns agency of the Michigan Conference.
He is married t o Linda Knapp of Berlin, Conn . and is the father
of a one-year -old daughter , Kathy.

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