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Cornelio M. Ferrer (1908-1988) Filipino pastor, editor and bishop, was born in Ligayen, Pangasinan, Philippines, on September 16, 1908. He attended Union College of Manila, receiving a B. A. in 1937, while serving student appointments. On February 23, 1935, he was ordained deacon and on November 28, 1937, an elder.

Ferrer was a member of the Phillipine Annual Conference. He married Emilia V. Rosario on April 14, 1934. From 1940 to 1946, Ferrer was a district superintendent. Shortly thereafter he was named a Crusade Scholar and attended Drew University, from which he received an M.A. in 1948. After his graduation he returned to the Philippines for a rural pastorate. From 1950 to 1968 he worked for the National Council of Churches in the Philippines while earning a B.D. degree from Union Theological Seminary in the Philippines. For years he was the Filipino correspondent of The Christian Century. During the 1950's, Ferrer served as the business manager of the Philippine Christian Advance.

On November 28, 1968, Ferrer was elected to the episcopacy by the Philippines Central Conference and served the Manila Area until 1974, when he retired. He then was a volunteer worker in rural missions. Ferrer died on November 23, 1988.

C. Willard Fetter (1914-2002) American minister, was a fully connected clergy member in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Evangelical United Brethren, and United Methodist Churches. Fetter's parents, Harry C. and Fanny Eck were living in Manheim, Pennsylvania, when Willard was born. After graduating high school in 1931, Fetter attended Lebanon Valley College and graduated in 1935. In 1934 he became a probationary member of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. He received full membership in the Virginia Conference in 1941. While serving a poor, rural circuit in the mountain region of West Virginia, he married Grace Hockley of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. By 1938, Fetter entered Bonebrake Seminary and graduated in 1941. Otterbein University awarded Fetter an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1957. Fetter later served churches in Akron and Dayton, Ohio with his longest pastoral ministry at Dayton First Church from 1959 to 1979. In addition to his ministerial duties, in 1944 Fetter had a special appointment as Director of War Services for the Church Federation of Dayton. Although Fetter retired in 1979, he continued to preach occasionally while living in Michigan and Florida. C. Willard Fetter died on July 2, 2002.