If you are leading United Methodist Men, manly terminology just seems right somehow.
“Be prepared — strap in, be ready to roll,” said Greg Arnold, who took over leadership of the men’s ministry general agency about 18 months ago. “We don’t move at church speed.”
Arnold, who brings a business background to the job, has reconfigured the strategy to reach men in the denomination by deemphasizing the charter model, revising the agency’s relationship with the Boy Scouts and moving out of its longtime home on Music Row and into the United Methodist Communications building a mile away.
More changes — and hopefully growth — are coming.
“We're just getting out of the gate,” Arnold said in an interview with United Methodist News. “We spent the better part of the first year sitting down with each of our stakeholders across the connection.”
At a presentation in March, Arnold and his team laid out their vision, and he said it was “warmly received, enthusiastically received. … We have a pretty aggressive four-year plan.”
Retired Bishop Gary Mueller, vice president of the United Methodist Men board, said he is “delighted with the direction.”
“I'm firmly convinced and grateful for it,” he said, “and I’m thoroughly convinced that Greg is the outstanding leader we need.”
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