Rev. Thomas Carver and Rev. Lilian Gallo Seagren named Conference Superintendents

 

Rev. Thomas Carver is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Wesley Theological Seminary from which he was awarded a D.Min. He was ordained a deacon in 1983 and elder in 1987 and has been senior pastor of the Shueyville United Methodist Church since 1990. He previously served the former Otterbein and Fairview United Methodist Churches in Toledo. 

 

He has served on the Iowa Conference Board of Ordained Ministry from 1988-1996 and as Conference registrar from 1992-1996. He has been on the District Committee on Ordained Ministry from 1993 to the present and registrar since 1999. 

 

Tom and his wife, Linda, are the proud parents of five grown children Dan, Jessi, Laura Wagner, Beth and Katelyn.

 

“Rev. Dr. Thomas L. Carver has a passion for church leadership and a history of encouraging persons to respond to the call to ordained ministry. His community service and experience as an adjunct instructor at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary will benefit him as he joins the Appointive Cabinet in July,” said Bishop Trimble. “His humility and love of family and the church is evident. He believes our first mission is to follow the example of Jesus,” the Bishop Trimble added.

 

Rev. Lilian Gallo Seagren, an ordained Elder and Full Member of the Iowa Annual Conference, has been serving Kimball Ave. United Methodist Church in Waterloo since 2009. She is a graduate of Philippine Christian University, University of the Philippines, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, and Christian Bible College where she was awarded a Ph.D. in Pastoral Counseling.

 

She was ordained Deacon in the Iowa Annual Conference in 1994 and ordained Elder in the Northeast Philippines Annual Conference in 1996.   She has served Fontanelle-Highland United Methodist Churches, Hamburg First UMC, and Guthrie Center-Bowman Chapel UMChurches. She served beyond local church appointment as faculty at Union Theological Seminary and Southeast Asia Theological Seminary both in the Philippines. 

 

Her ministry with Iowa Annual Conference includes in the Council Bluffs District Superintendency Committee, District Committee on Ministry, Parish Development Committee, Conference Commission on Religion and Race, Board of Ordained, and teaching at the Upper Midwest Course of Study School.

She was the 2008 Clergy Recipient of the Harry Denman Evangelism Award. 

 

She is married to Rev. Kirk Seagren. Their daughter, Jane Anne, is a junior at Iowa State University and their adopted daughter, Maria Fe Tagalicud, lives in the Philippines with her husband and their children. 

 

“I am going to the Southeast District trusting in the grace and power of God for the work entrusted to the position I have been assigned to fill” she said.

 

“A delegate to General Conference, Lilian has a passion for leadership development, evangelism and connecting the local church to mission,” said Bishop Trimble. “I met with Rev. Lilian Gallo-Seagren less than 48 hours after she returned from a working mission trip to the Philippines. After building houses and working with the marginalized in the Philippines, she returned to continue her work of equipping lay members for the work of Jesus Christ in Waterloo, IA,” he added.