23. Conference Diaconal Committee
Report to the Representative Session of business conducted by the Conference Diaconal Committee.
The Conference Diaconal Committee (“the Committee”) met during the Convocation of the Methodist Diaconal Order on 9 May 2013. The President took the Chair.
1. Deacons who have died
The Committee approved the Obituaries, as printed and circulated, of Marjorie Elizabeth Bate, Rosalie Margaret James, Agnes Davidson Notman, Emily Elizabeth Florence Sherwood and Dorothy Jean Taylor.
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:
Corinne Anne Brown
Linda Brown
Jacqueline Abigail Patricia Nike Esma-John
Sally Elizabeth Hammond
Caroline Holt
Phillipa Kirby-Girdlestone
Alison McMillan
Gail Morgan
Marlene Skuce
Sarah Wickett
Jacqueline Linda Wright
A resolution was 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
No case
4. Training and Probation
The Committee noted that the following student had withdrawn from training:
Bridget Jane Crossfield
The Committee recommended to the Representative Session that the following continue in training:
Angela Patricia Allport
Melanie Beaven
Laura Evans
Jon Everingham
Linda Gilson
Elizabeth Harfleet
Valerie Hicks
Maria Howard
Liane Justine Elizabeth Kensett
Pamela Luxton
Karen McEwen
Julie Morton
Selina Jane Nisbett
Lemia Nkwelah
Helen Osborne
Margaret Eleanor Pratchett
Peter George Reast
Colette Lerczak Ritson
Ian Rossiter
Ramona Samuel
Suzie Godinho Barony Viana
The Committee recommended to the Representative Session that the following’s training be deferred:
Emma Holroyd
The Committee recommended to the Representative Session that the following continue on probation:
Guy Austin-Bride
Helen Bamber
John Brobbey
Prudence Elizabeth Cahill
Dawn Nicola Canham
Timothy Arthur Coleman
Josephine Frances Ann Critchley
Sheila Mary Dawson
Michaela Jayne Doherty
Annabel Lorna Graham
Tracey Jane Hume
Gill Judge (ordained probationer)
Esther Longe
Linda Rose Kinchenton
Yasha Rukudzo Mashoko
Annette Sharpe
Angela Shereni
Marilyn Olayika Slowe
Carole Irene Smith
Steven Wayne Sowerby
Joy Anne Sykes
Irene Nyarai Tafirenyika
Jill Taylor
Liesl Collette Warren
Linda Watkin
5. Ordinands
The Committee recommended 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:
Georgina Mary Brooks
David Keegan
Ruth Marion Lackenby
Deborah Marsh
Alison Margaret McCauley
Siân Marie Street
Terry Street
Samantha Mary Taylor
Helen Mary Webster
A resolution was 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 recommended to the Representative Session that the following deacons be permitted to become supernumerary:
Kathleen Barrett (23)
Margaret Crompton (20)
Ruth M Hinch (38)
Sylvia J Kempson (14)
A resolution was presented to the Representative Session of the Conference at the appropriate point that the above named be permitted to become supernumerary.
7. Reinstatements
Iley Hearle
Constance M Lawson
8. 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
23/1. The Conference received the Report.
23/2. The Conference adopted the report on diaconal students and probationers recommended for continuance in training or on probation as set out in section 4.
23/3. The Conference resolved 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 deacons 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 seventh day of July at Southwark Cathedral.
23/4. The Conference resolved, by a Standing Vote, that it accepts 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.