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Laura Stern

Senior Pastor, Apex United Methodist Church

The Rev. Laura Stern is the senior pastor of Apex United Methodist Church in Apex, North Carolina. She has served in a variety of congregations, urban and suburban, small and large, in both the North Carolina and North Georgia Conferences, including Ocracoke UMC on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. She is an elder in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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