The Holston Conference office in Alcoa, Tenn., has welcomed five new staff members since Annual Conference. We asked them, "What book is lying on your nightstand?"

Val Gallant
Receptionist
Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits, by T.D. Jakes



Gaye King
Associate director of connectional ministries for advocacy, children, and families
Thus Far on the Way: Toward a Theology of Child Advocacy, by Eileen W. Lindner

Laura Lambert
Associate director of connectional ministries for youth and college
Be the Change: Your Guide to Freeing Slaves and Changing the World, by Zach Hunte

JaNae' Swanson
Receptionist
Jet Magazine



Rev. Dan Taylor
Conference secretary
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn