Welcome to our Wesley Family's website.  Thank you for taking the time to look about and discover all the opportunities for fellowship, worship, education and outreach in Wesley's ministries and missions.  While your here on this page let me share a bit about the Crecelius family.

 

  Jodel has teaches at the House of Hope Minnesota here in Marshall.  She previously home taught our children for ten years and before that taught in the Bloomington School District in Bloomington, Illinois.  She enjoys cross-stitching, craft fairs, reading, gardening and nature walks.

 

  Stephani is a senior at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where she is studying to be an Egyptologist in the field of Archeology.  She is very involved in the colleges choirs and theater departments.  She is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and is a voracious reader.

 

  Elayne goes to school at U of M Duluth, majoring in business and communication and wants to go into advertising.

 

  Brett is a junior at MHS.  He enjoys all sports but focuses on wrestling and soccer.  He plays Tuba in the Marching Band and Concert band; Trumpet in Jazz Band.  He is a big reader also leaning toward fantasy (Tolkien and the like) and military history.  He has a great passion for camping, canoeing, hiking and all things outdoors. 

 

  I enjoy backpacking, canoeing and camping. My Bachelor’s Degree is in music and I played rugby in college, where Jodel and I met. Since my calling in to the ordained ministry, I have been a youth coordinator for two large churches in central Illinois and a student local pastor at Flat Rock UM Church in Flat Rock, IN. since moving to Minnesota in 1990, we were appointed to Wood Lake UM Church which was yoked first to Vesta United Presbyterian Church followed by Ashford Presbyterian Church in Milroy. In 1995, we were appointed to Hilltop United Methodist Church in Mankato.  We joined the Wesley family in the summer of 2000.

Reverend James H. Crecelius

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