
As a pastor, I am called to walk, sit, weep, laugh, love, lead, challenge, teach the people I am appointed to serve. I am also called to be led, challenged, vulnerable, loved by the people I am appointed to serve.
Hometown: Wichita, Ks.
Education: Bachelor of Science in Organizational Development and Leadership. Masters of Divinity with an emphasis in United Methodist Studies. Pursuing Doctorate in Organizational Development and Leadership.
Besides being a pastor, what has been one of your favorite jobs and why?: Pooper Scooper at a Veterinary Clinic.
Why you love living in Montana: The scenery.
Something unique about your ministry that you think is needed in the community: More laugher and fun!
Something unique about your ministry that you think is needed in the community: My ministry is unique because I get to help people be comfortable being uncomfortable as they live into being the person God created them to be.
Hometown: Livingston, MT
Besides being a pastor, what has been one of your favorite jobs and why?: Before I was in ministry I worked on the MSU campus in many roles. My favorite was the orientation coordinator in 2016.
Why you love living in Montana: I have lived in Montana since I was 2 and sometimes take for granted the beauty that surrounds us. Every time I go on a trip I am welcomed back by the beautiful mountains.
Something unique about your ministry that you think is needed in the community: Being young in ministry, I try to bring new ideas and ways to think outside of the box on how we can be a community with and without the confinements of a building. COVID has challenged us all, but now is the time to really come together as community. We are all in this together.

Rev. Jan Witman is the Superintendent of the Montana West District of the Mountain Sky Conference. She was raised in The United Methodist Church and has served in the Yellowstone Legacy Conference since 1984.
Upon her appointment as a District Superintendent in 2017, Jan has allowed the following question to guide her work: “What does it look like to be the Body of Christ in this time and place, in this context?” Jan has an Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary.