Ordained Ministry
Ordained a Deacon in 1945 by Bishop H. Lester Smith, and an Elder in 1947 by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Rev. Colaw became a Member in Full Connection of the New York Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in 1947. That fall, however, he transferred to the Northern Illinois Annual Conference, where he served three different pastorates over a fourteen-year period. In 1961 Rev. Colaw was appointed to the Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio (West Ohio Annual Conference). It was from this appointment Rev. Colaw was elected to the Episcopacy by the North Central Jurisdictional Conference of the U.M. Church, July 1980.
Rev. Colaw was a Jurisdictional and General Conference delegate 1968-80. He also was a member of the General Conference Commission on Doctrine and Doctrinal Standards.
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