RUMFORD – Pastor Michael Johnson is leaving his position as interim pastor at Rumford Point Congregational Church and Locke Mills Union Church in Greenwood.

He will preach his last sermon at 9 a.m. this Sunday at Locke Mills in a combined service for both churches. It will be followed by a potluck lunch in his honor.

The Bridgton resident is looking into a chaplaincy position in southern Maine, or an interim pastorate position while he continues his employment with Cumberland County Crisis Response.

Johnson took the Rumford and Greenwood pastorates after the Rev. Deborah Jenks was hired by a church in Hampden in 2002.

Succeeding Johnson is the Rev. Frank Haines, minister at the United Methodist Church in Rumford for the past four years. He will preach his last sermon there Sunday, June 27, and his first at Locke Mills and Rumford Point on July 4. Services are at 9 a.m. in Locke Mills and 10:30 a.m. in Rumford Point.

The United Methodist Church in Rumford recently voted to go to from a full-time to a half-time pastorate, lay leader Jim Robertson said. R. Kelly Harvell of Merrimack, N.H., will fill that position on July 4 at the 10:30 a.m. service. It is her first pastorate after working in the computer business for many years.