Report to the Representative Session of Business Conducted by the Conference

42. Conference Diaconal Committee

Report to the Representative Session of business conducted by the Conference

Diaconal Committee (“the Committee”) meeting at the Convocation of the Methodist Diaconal Order on 11May 2012.

At the request of the President, who was unable to be present, the Ex Vice-President took the Chair.

1. Deacons who have died

The Committee approved the Obituaries, as printed and circulated to the meeting, of Winifred May Clark and Kathleen Mabel Phoenix.

2. Candidates

The Committee recommended, with the required majority, acceptance by the Representative Session of the following candidates to proceed immediately into pre-ordination training:

Angela Patricia Allport

Bridget Jane Crossfield

Laura Evans

Linda Gilson

Elizabeth Harfleet

Valerie Hicks

Emma Holroyd

Maria Howard

Pamela Luxton

Karen Mcewan

Selina Jane Nisbett

Lemia Nkwelah

Helen Osborne

Margaret Eleanor Pratchett

Ian Rossiter

Ramona Samuel

Suzie Gidinho Barony Viana

A resolution will be presented to the Representative Session of the Conference at the appropriate point that the above named be accepted as candidates for training.

3. Transfer

The Conference Diaconal Committee recommends to the Representative Session that Gill Judge, an ordained deacon of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, be received by transfer onto probation and, upon satisfactory completion of probation, be received into Full Connexion at the Conference of 2014.

A resolution will be presented to the Representative Session of the Conference at the appropriate point that the above named be received by transfer.

4. Training and Probation

The Committee noted that the following students had withdrawn from training:

Amanda Hu

Ian Morton

The Committee noted that the following students had been discontinued from training:

Graeme Lloyd

Julie A Portland

The Committee recommends to the Representative Session that the following be reinstated as a student:

Jon Everingham

The Committee recommends to the Representative Session that the following continue in training:

Melanie Beaven

Prudence Cahill

Dawn Canham

Sheila Dawson

Michaela Doherty

Lianne Kensett

Julie Morton

Colette Ritson

Peter Reast

Annette Sharpe

Joy Sykes

Yasha Takavarasha-Mashoko

Jill Taylor

Liesl Warren

Linda Watkin

The Committee recommends to the Representative Session that the following continue on probation:

Guy Austin Bride

Helen Bamber

John Brobbey

Georgina Brooks

Timothy A Coleman

Josephine F A Critchley

Annabel Lorna Graham

Tracey Jane Hume

David Keegan

Linda Kinchenton

Ruth Lackenby

Esther Longe

Alison M McCauley

Debbie Marsh

Angela Shereni

Marilyn Olayinka Slowe

Carole Irene Smith

Steven Wayne Sowerby

Sian M Street

Terry Street

Irene Nyarai Tafirenyika

Helen M Webster

5. Ordinands

The Committee recommends to the Representative Session that the following are fit to be admitted into Full Connexion with the Conference as deacons and, if not already ordained, to be ordained:

Fillipus den Uil

Jennifer A J Jones

Belinda S Letby

Sarah McDowell

Jonathan Miller

Suzanne Peat

Rachel Thomas-Prasad

A resolution will be presented to the Representative Session of the Conference at the appropriate point that the above named be received into Full Connexion and, if not already ordained, be ordained.

6. Deacons becoming Supernumerary

The Committee recommends to the Representative Session that the following deacons be permitted to become supernumerary:

Jennifer Heath

Mary Neal

Peter Ogle

Gordon Wallace

Judith Wray

The Committee accepted the report that the President had permitted Deacon Donald Pritchard to become supernumerary during the year on health grounds.

A resolution will be presented to the Representative Session of the Conference at the appropriate point that the above named be permitted to become supernumerary.

7. Annual Inquiry

The Warden of the Order gave to the Committee on behalf of the Convocation the assurances as to the character and discipline of the deacons and diaconal probationers required by Standing Order 183.

***RESOLUTIONS

42/1. The Conference received the Report.

42/2. The Conference adopted the report on diaconal students and probationers recommended for continuance in training or on probation as set out in section 4.

42/3 The Conference resolved by a Standing Vote that it accepted for training unconditionally or conditionally as the case may be the candidates for ministry recommended by the Diaconal Committee whose names are recorded in the report of that committee in the Daily Record