57. Ministerial and Diaconal Oversight
In the following lists * = change from the lists approved by the 2004 Conference
+ = candidates accepted by the 2004 Conference
A. MINISTERIAL CANDIDATES SELECTION COMMITTTEE
***RESOLUTION
57/1. (Ministerial Session)
The Conference in its Ministerial Session resolves by a Standing Vote to recommend to the Representative Session for training those persons whose names have been duly presented to it.
57/2. (Representative Session)
The Conference resolves by a Standing Vote that it accepts for training unconditionally or conditionally, as the case may be, the candidates for the ministry recommended by the Ministerial Session whose names are recorded in the Daily Record for that Session.
B. MINISTERIAL CANDIDATES AND PROBATIONERS
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
a) SPECIAL REPORTS
***RESOLUTION
57/3. (Ministerial Session)
The Conference adopts the special reports of the Ministerial Candidates and Probationers Oversight Committee.
b) PREACHERS RECOMMENDED FOR CONTINUANCE ON TRIAL
1. For service based on the home Districts
Due to be received into Full Connexion in 2006
Adams, Joy E Ewing, Hilary
Ainger, Caroline R Gardner, Ian G
Barlow, Stephen M Gill, Carol E
Boon, Amanda J Griffiths, Ian T
Byass, Richard J Harland, Catrin L
Byron, Irena M Holland, Michael P
Church, Clare E M Hull, David A
Cornish, Deborah A Humphreys, Ian M
Cotton, Dale A Jobson, Karen
Davenport, Mark J Kemp, Lindsay
Davies, Anthony M + Kennedy, Margaret J
Dunn, Stephen Kenton, Ann
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King, Christine * Sharp, Alistair
King, Rita D J Shaw, Brenda
Kington, Jayne E Sherman, Mark R
(formerly Webb) Snape, Heather A
Larrett, Clive J Suray, Joseph
* Long, Angela J (formerly Basappa)
Martin, R. Paul Suray, Nutan
Miles, Graham P (formerly Joseph)
Moorhouse, Adele F Tanner, Janet M
Morgan, Emma R Taylor, Kevin C
Morgan, Janice A Trew, Gillian R
(formerly Ticehurst) Turner, N Beverly
Nicholls, Rosemary J Vunipola, Iesinga F
Oliver, Stephen J Warren, Jill P
Osborn, Keith A Wilthew, Alan E
Pettigrew, Lindsay J Worgan, Glayne
Rawlings, Elaine (formerly Beasley)
Ryder, Caroline F Wriglesworth, Juliet E
Sewell, Jonathan A
Due to be received into Full Connexion in 2007
+ Ali, Lena Maraj-Ogden, Vindra
+ Attwood, Marie + Mpanduki, Robert
Borkett, Phillip G + Nevin, Leslie
* Choi, Sooncheol + Musselwhite, Jonathan R
+ Clapham, Paul J Neil, Francis R
Clark, Sue M + Oborski, Nicholas A
Clowes, Anthony J + Oldham, Derek
+ Duck, Ruth C Proctor, Kate E
+ Fairburn, Barbara J + Ratcliffe, Kim I
Griffin, Beale B Ratcliffe, Sally A
Grimshaw, Derek V + Reed, Melanie
Hall, Carla S Richey, John J
+ Jackson, Eleanor G Routley, Barbara T
Jackson, Kathryn M + Smith, Jennifer H
+ Kane, Peter D C Stevens, Amanda
Kemp, Ian Stilwell, Kim J
Kent, Elizabeth A Stranks, Pamela F
Lambert, Susan M Talbot, Steven
+ Le Boutillier Scott, Gillian H Walker, Andrew D
+ Leach, John T + Weir, Paul S
Leto, Rosaria Warnock, David
+ Lucas, Paul E * Wright, Dani
+ MacGregor, Jennifer A
Due to be received into Full Connexion in 2008
+ Anderson, John D + Calvert, Barbara A
+ Bailey, George P + Campbell, Velma D
+ Bennett, Steven A + Chaplin, Carol A
+ Bull, Joanna I + Clark, Andrew M
+ Collison, Nicholas J + Marriott, John R
+ Cowburn, S Janice * McNeill, John
+ Crouch, Jeanette + Minns, Julie A
+ Doddrell, Julie + Morton, John
+ Dutton, Graeme M + Neal, Lindsay A
+ Fellows, Pauline + Newton, David C
+ Fisher, John + Noon, Leslie Jane
+ Garwood, Barbara E + Olsen, Marian L
+ Grice, Diane E + Ramsden, Beverley A
+ Hague, Denise A + Sherwood, Joanne
+ Harper, Neil + Smith, Vivienne G
+ Higgs, Gareth J + Upton, Heather M
+ Kimber, Mark J + Walsh, Gillian Y
+ Lomax, Andrew + Ward, Stephen H
+ Lowe, Alistair M + Watson, F Joan
+ Lyons, Andrew H + Yardy, Bryan A
Due to be received into Full Connexion in 2009
+ Gibb, Roxanne
Due to be received into Full Connexion in 2010
+ Swindell, Timothy
2. For service based on an Overseas District
No case
***RESOLUTION
57/4. (Ministerial Session)
The Conference adopts the Report on preachers recommended for continuance on trial with the changes to the Report consequent on the adoption of Resolution 57/3.
c) PREACHERS ON TRIAL PRESENTED TO THE
CONFERENCE
Ministers to be received into Full Connexion in 2005
1. For service based on the home Districts
(a) Serving in home Districts
Aikins, Emma (formerly Borwick, Keith W
F. Emma E Hammond) Brown, Ian
Arscott, Catherine E Brown, Roger F
Atkins, Janet I Clews, Pamela A
Bennett, Jocelyn F + Cole, H Jane
Bennett, Peter J Collins, Charlotte C P
Biggins, Moira J Cook, R. Jeremy H
Bishop, Barry Cowgill, Nigel T
Black, Gregory T Davey, Norma
Borda, Deborah J Dilley, Michael P
Dowding, Jennifer S Martin, Lesley S
Downs-Lewis, Rachel M McClelland, Katie
Dunn, Katy R * Nice, Helen M
Edwards, Gareth J Parkinson, Rachel E
Ely, David S Pegg, G Susan
Farrimond, L E Maree Pettipher, Janice C
* Fellows, John E Phillips, Linda M
Finch, Matthew R Phillips, Verity J
Freeston, Helen M Radford, Stephen J
George, Karen M Read, Sharon (formerly Ives)
Godden, Elizabeth A Reynolds, Ruth J
Grebby, James E Richards, D Mark
Gregg, Lyn P Roberts, Colin J
Griffiths, Susan J Robertson, Deborah A
+ Hart, Anita M Rodgers, Nigel
Hawkins, Rachael L Selby, Kathryn A
(formerly Chastney) Seymour, Grace
Hays, Geoffrey S Shannahan, Mary V
Hicks, Diane Smart, Ian W
Homewood, Gary J Stinton, Malcolm C
Houghton, Gillian M Stolton, David
Hume, Gavin R Street, O Mark
Jackson, Janet P Sutcliffe, Simon C
Kemble, David Taylor, Heather M
Kettlety, Christine E H Toppin, Shirlyn
(formerly Heath) Walker, Alison E
Laird, R. Andrew Wallace, Seija M
Lamb, Sarah L Ward, Pamela R
Leech, Christine Wilcock, Helen
Lewis, Robert D Williams, Patricia M
Liddell-Davies, Delyth A Winner, Barbara M
(formerly Liddell) Winstanley, David B
Loudon, Allan Y Wood, Kathleen S
Lupi Ricco, Claudia Worsfold, Ian J
(formerly Lupi)
(b) Serving Overseas
None
2. For service based on an overseas District
(a) Serving in that District
Due to be received into Full Connexion in 2006
Ashcroft, Shaka
Manga, Banni
(b) Serving elsewhere
None
***RESOLUTION
57/5. (Ministerial Session)
The Conference resolves by a Standing Vote that it judges that those persons whose names are printed in the Agenda have duly completed their training and probation and thereby it recommends them to the Representative Session as fit to be received into Full Connexion with the Conference as ministers and, if not already ordained, to be ordained.
C. MINISTERS RECOMMENDED TO RETURN TO THE ACTIVE WORK OR TO BE TRANSFERRED OR REINSTATED INTO FULL CONNEXION
a) MINISTERS RECOMMENDED TO RETURN TO THE ACTIVE WORK
b) RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE MINISTERIAL CANDIDATES SELECTION COMMITTEE ACTING AS TRANSFER COMMITTEE
c) TRANSFER FROM THE METHODIST CHURCH IN IRELAND
d) REINSTATEMENTS TO FULL CONNEXION
***RESOLUTIONS
57/6. (Ministerial Session)
The Conference adopts the Reports.
57/7. (Ministerial Session)
The Conference resolves by a Standing Vote that those persons whom the Conference has duly adjudged as fit to be received by transfer or reinstatement as the case may be as ministers be now presented to the Representative Session to be received into Full Connexion with the Conference.
D. RECEPTION INTO FULL CONNEXION
57/8. (Representative Session)
The Conference resolves by a Standing Vote that those persons whose names have been read to the Conference and are printed in the Agenda and Daily Record be now received into Full Connexion with the Conference as ministers for service based either on the home Districts or an overseas District, as specified in the Agenda, and that those not already ordained, be ordained by prayer and the laying on of hands on the afternoon of this day, the 26th of June, at:
Central Church (Methodist/URC), Torquay
St Paul’s Parish Church, Preston, Paignton
The Avenue Methodist/URC Church, Newton Abbot
Teignmouth Methodist Church
St Luke’s Parish Church, Buckfastleigh
Sidwell Street Methodist Church, Exeter
Wesley Methodist Church, Saltash
St Paul’s Parish Church, Honiton
Methodist Central Hall, Plymouth
Tavistock Methodist Church
Temple Methodist Church, Taunton
E. MINISTERS RECOMMENDED FOR TRANSFER OUT OF FULL CONNEXION OR TO BE PERMITTED TO SERVE ANOTHER CONFERENCE OR CHURCH OR TO SERVE ABROAD OR RESIDE ABROAD
a) MINISTERS OFFERING AS CANDIDATES FOR THE DIACONATE
b) TRANSFER TO OTHER CONFERENCES AND DENOMINATIONS
c) TRANSFER TO THE METHODIST CHURCH IN IRELAND
d) PERMISSION TO SERVE ABROAD
e) PERMISSION TO RESIDE ABROAD
***RESOLUTION
57/9. (Ministerial Session)
The Conference adopts the Reports.
F. MINISTERS BECOMING SUPERNUMERARY OR RETURNING TO THE ACTIVE WORK
a. In Britain
* John V Bennett (35) * Kenneth F Elworthy (39)
Nicola C Blois (7) Gillian M Evans (6)
Michael J Bowman (37) David Kim-Kooi Foo (42)
Derek C Brice (36) Francis D Forbes (29)
Malcolm Brookes (40) David L Freeland (35)
Peter Brooks (43) Robert W Gollins (41)
J Laurence Bullas (10) Henk Greenway (33)
David G A Calvert (42) Margaret Hadfield (8)
Gordon Chisnall (38) David G Hall (40)
Peter F Curry (41) Grahame Hall (24)
Robert Davies (42) David Halstead (40)
Andrew D C Deans (16) * John D Hardy (30)
Peter S Dewdney (15) John C Hanson (39)
Elizabeth A Dunn-Wilson (8) David R Hill (40)
Joyce K Ellis (22) Keith Hodgson (37)
Carole J Holden (12) * Elizabeth Rundle (23)
Richard Jackson (37) Geoffrey W Scarlett (38)
Martin P James (41) Alan Sharp (39)
Ann Le Mare (7) Judith M Shewen (10)
David W Le Poidevin (40) * Peter W Shilling (33)
John L Lines (20) Angela J Singleton (12)
Dorothy F Lloyd-Williams (25) Ronald M Smith (39)
Keith W Martin (39) Derek N Stanworth (40)
Michael J Mason (14) David C Stringer (23)
Rosamy Murphy (10) Margaret Stringer (17)
Charles T F New (37) Michael E W Thompson (38)
Roger J Parsons (42) Joan M Thornton (9)
A Mary Pheasey (6) Barbara M Walls (11)
Trevor J Pheasey (7) J Donald Wass (39)
Christine M Pocock (23) * Peter B Williamson (38)
* Alan R C Ponting (23) * Gwendoline Wills (9)
Carrol A Popley (10) Colin R Wilson (41)
Alan G Powers (40) Brenda E Woods (11)
* David Price (36) David J E Woodward (15)
John R Pritchard (41) Peter D Wright (35)
Paul F Regan (42) Roy Yates (38)
Geoffrey W Revett (40) Frances M Young (25)
Malcolm E Richards (37)
b. Overseas
No case.
All applications are made under Standing Order 790(1), except those marked * who are applying on grounds of ill health under Standing Order 790(2). The number in brackets after each name indicates the years of travel of the ministers concerned (Standing Order 800).
***RESOLUTIONS
57/10. (Ministerial Session)
The Conference recommends to the Representative Session that the ministers listed above be permitted to become supernumerary on the grounds shown.
57/11. (Representative Session)
The Conference permits those ministers whose names have been recommended by the Ministerial Session to become supernumerary.
c. Permissions granted during the year
During the year the President permitted the following ministers to become supernumerary on health grounds: Mary Bailey, Raymond Bassindale, Leslie E Goulden, Mary E Hart.
***RESOLUTION
57/12. (Ministerial and Representative Sessions)
The Conference receives the Report.
d. Returning to the Active Work
***RESOLUTION
57/13. (Representative Session)
The Conference permits the following minister to return to the Active Work.
Ian Mason
G. DIACONAL CANDIDATES SELECTION COMMITTEE
Report
a) Appeals: None.
b) Recommended for training: Ford, Stephanie Louise
Gibson, Jane
Griffin, Eleanor
Langdale, Susan
Paine, Jane Elizabeth
c) Recommended for training upon fulfilment of stated conditions:
No case.
d) Recommended for training upon transfer from presbyteral ministry:
No case.
***RESOLUTIONS
57/14. (Diaconal Session)
The Conference resolves by a Standing Vote to recommend to the Representative Session for training those persons whose names have been duly presented to it.
57/15. (Representative Session)
The Conference resolves by a Standing Vote that it accepts for training unconditionally or conditionally, as the case may be, the candidates for the Diaconate recommended by the Diaconal Session, whose names are recorded in the Daily Record for that Session.
H. DIACONAL CANDIDATES AND PROBATIONERS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Report
a) Withdrawals: None.
b) Recommended to continue in training: Beckett, Richard, Paul
Eastman, Rhona Edwina
Pattenden, Colin Robert
Purchase, Brian John
c) Recommended to continue as probationers:
Ashby, Sheralee Ann
Atkinson, Christina Gillian
Day, Elizabeth Jane
Dower, Julie Ann
Hays, Katherine Elizabeth Christine
Heys, Janet
Jenkins, Janet Susan
Legumi, Michelle Louise
Miles, Janet Linda
Osborne, Philip John
Peck, Stephen John
Roe, Stephen Francis
Shepherd, Ruth Brenda Joy
Smith, David William
Sutton, Janet
Woodfin, Jennifer
***RESOLUTION
57/16. (Diaconal Session)
The Conference adopts the Report on diaconal students and probationers recommended for continuance.
d) Recommended to be received into Full Connexion:
Brown, Lorraine Elizabeth
Clark, David Bernard
Keizer, Angleena Julie
King, Phyliss Mary
Mackintosh, Shirley Elizabeth
Mason, Jane Elizabeth
Smith, Janet Kirstine
Wynn, Mark Roderick
***RESOLUTIONS
57/17. (Diaconal Session)
The Conference resolves by a Standing Vote that it judges that those persons whose names are printed in the Agenda have duly completed their training and probation and thereby it recommends them to the Representative Session as fit to be received into Full Connexion with the Conference as deacons and, if not already ordained, to be ordained.
57/18. (Representative Session)
The Conference resolves by a Standing Vote that those persons whose names have been read to the Conference and are printed in the Agenda and Daily Record be now received into Full Connexion with the Conference and into full membership of the Methodist Diaconal Order, and that those not already ordained, be ordained by prayer and the laying on of hands on the afternoon of this day, the 26th June, at Palace Avenue Methodist Church, Paignton.