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The Rev. Donna McLaird - Visitation Pastor

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The Rev. McLaird graduated from high school in Faulkton, SD in 1959. She met and married her husband, Jim, at DWU in 1961.  They spent the academic year of 1962-63 at Boston University School of Theology , and then she finished a Masters in Religious Education at Garrett Evangelical in Evanston, Ill., in 1964.   Donna was the Christian Education Director at the Methodist Church of Laramie, Wyoming from 1964 until 1967, while Jim was in graduate school.   They moved to Mitchell in 1967,  and had 2 sons, John and Steven.  Donna worked at DWU, from 1981 to 1984, as Director for non-traditional students. She finished her Master of Divinity at San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, California in 1987, and pastored churches from 1977-81 and 1984-2004, including Ethan-Tyndall, Broadland-Hitchcock, Plankinton-Mt. Vernon, Colton,-Chester all in South Dakota. Following retirement the Rev. McLaird has enjoyed her part time employment at  FUMC since 2004.

The Rev. Donna McLaird is an ordained elder in the Dakotas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.