BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Jeff Tate told the congregation of Keystone Heights’s First United Methodist Church, during the congregation’s Wednesday services that he has accepted the position of pastor at a church in northern Alabama.
Tate wrote in a social media post that the move to the North Alabama Methodist Conference comes after a decade of seeking God’s will in prayer.
“It is an appointment that will also allow us to be closer to family,” Tate wrote.
The Auburn University and Asbury Theological Seminary graduate will be leading the First United Methodist Church of Fort Payne. He has served in Keystone Heights for six years. Tate led congregations in Lake City and Appalachia before coming to the Lake Region.
“Six years is just long enough to fall deeply in love with people and a place, such as we never want to leave,” he wrote. “And though we are deeply sad to leave Keystone Heights, we are so grateful for all of you who have reached out to us, loved on us, prayed for us, supported us, cried for us. And been excited for us. We need all of you.”
