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United Methodist Men announce new retreat speaker

Dr. Arnold Prater, a United Methodist elder and evangelist who was scheduled to speak at the Florida Conference United Methodist Men’s Couples’ Retreat March 2-4, recently announced his retirement as a retreat speaker.

Prater has been a featured speaker at 53 UMM events in Florida since 1969.

The Rev. Clark Pickett, pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Palm Beach Gardens, will replace Prater as a principal speaker at the retreat. Pickett joins the Rev. Roger Watts, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Coral Springs, and the Rev. John Hope, senior chaplain of the Wakulla Correctional Institution in Crawfordville, Fla., as speakers for the weekend.

Reservations are still available for the Couples’ Retreat. For more information visit the UMM’s Web site at http://www.flconfumm.org or call Jerry Bennett, secretary of the Florida Conference United Methodist Men, at 813-685-2745.