CLERGY TAX AND COMPENSATION CONFERENCE

Rev. Phyllis M. Bowers
Executive Director

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Since 1987, Phyllis M. Bowers has served as Director of Planned Giving and Stewardship Services for The United Methodist Stewardship Foundation of Central Pennsylvania, the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. In this position, she has conducted more than 800 seminars during the past five years on wills, planned giving, Christian money management, stewardship development and related topics. She serves as
clergy consultant and personal financial expert.

In 1999, she was consecrated as a Diaconal Minister and certified as a Christian Educator and in 2004, ordained Deacon in the United Methodist Church. She is a graduate of York College of Pennsylvania, The National Institute of Planned Giving at the College of William and Mary and is a member of the Association of Financial Planners. She graduated 1999 as
Deacon/Diaconal Minister from Wesley Theological Seminary.

Her responsibilities within the United Methodist Church include serving as Delegate to General Conference and Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference in 1996, 2000 and 2004. She is member of the Board of Directors of the United Methodist Church Foundation, member of the North American Conference on Christian Philanthropy Planning Committee,member of Gary Moore and Company Board of Advisors, Student Aid Board of Managers,
Daystar Center for Spiritual Recovery Board of Directors, Albright Continuing Care Foundation Board of Directors, York County Council of Churches Board of Directors, past member of the Board of Pensions and Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, and for twelve years served as member of the York College Alumni Board.

In 2002, Phyllis was privileged to represent the General Board of Discipleship in aneducational trip to Malawi, Central Africa where she preached and taught pastors on thesubject of Stewardship. She served as Keynote Speaker for the United Methodist Church’sNorth Central New York Annual Conference sessions in 2004, and in 2004 and 2005conducted five district-wide Stewardship Development Seminars, reaching more than 500 pastors in that Annual Conference. Phyllis will also Chair the Estate and Planned Giving
Forum for the Ecumenical Stewardship Center 2005-2006, serve on the Planning Committee for the North American Conference of Christian Philanthropy, and as Keynote Speaker of the Ecumenical Worship Service for the York County Council of Churches in September, 2005. She and her husband, Rev. Richard L. Bowers, have two adult sons and one granddaughter.