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Closing Worship Sends Us Forth

Taylor Mills — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:23:27 +0000

Ten new clergy were commissioned and another 23 clergy were ordained Saturday morning. (One person who couldn’t attend Conference was ordained on June 6th.) Bishop Gwinn, in delivering the ordination sermon, told them, “You have been called to die to self…Dying to self must have a time when there is an intentional act of the will but it is also a daily and continual act.” The Bishop reminded the clergy that one of the biggest temptations they will face is to make their role “a job instead of a calling; a profession instead of a vocation.”

After the acts of commissioning and ordination, a representative of the retiring class of 2010 presented a mantle, or stole, that Bishop Gwinn symbolically placed on a member of the class of ordinands.

At the end of the service, the bishop fixed the appointments for the 2010-2011 ministry year. The churches to whom a pastor was being newly appointed numbered 150 this summer. With a blessing, Bishop Gwinn sent the Annual Conference forward into ministry.

Clergy and Spouses Remembered

Taylor Mills — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:19:59 +0000

Yesterday morning’s worship service included the remembrance of the following deceased clergy:

Riley Tex Hamilton, Barney Lee Davidson, Robert Joseph Rudd, Wayne Esmond Thomas, Dean Healy Morton, Sr., Roger Everett Thompson, Clyde Gay McCarver, Richard J. Williams, Benjamin Ray Melvin, Pernicie C. Yelverton, Patrick Joseph Looney, Bobby Powell Tyson, Sr., Hobart William Burnside, Jr., Leonard Edward Mayo, Samuel Williams Dixon, Jr., Harold “Pete” McElroy Chrismon, Sr., Neil Howard Thompson, Herman Nathan Ward, Jr., and Robert Edward Lee Moser.

And the following deceased spouses of clergy:

Callie Powell Wooten, Louise Stallings Dawson Forbes, Mildred Murrie Lee, Alta Stone Russell, Glenda Ann Craig, Nancy Wike Andrews, Velva Bass Williams Little, Annie Margaret Johnson Beane, Catharine Allen Vick, and Linda Lane Blue.

Clergy Counseling and Consultation

Taylor Mills — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:31:49 +0000

An amendment to the 2010 budget was presented by the Commission on Clergy Counseling and Consultation that generated heartfelt discussion on the floor of Conference yesterday morning. The amendment would have restored $63,300 to budget line item 45 to which the 2008 Annual Conference had allotted $158,720. After reviewing a standing vote, the bishop ruled that the amendment was defeated.

Retired Clergy Recognized

Taylor Mills — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:29:27 +0000

Reverend Keith Nanney preached for the Retiree Recognition Service yesterday in which the following new retirees were honored:
Milton Bailey Collier, Jr., Sandra Jean (Rose) Conner, William Thomas Cottingham III, John Quinton Covington, Jr., Simeon Dufrene Cummings, Gayle Carlton Felton, Haywood Wrenn Gillikin, Walter Lawrence Graves, Harold Harvey Harbin, Jr., Charles Malcolm Herring, Durward Douglas Jessee, Charles Kenneth Morrison, Roy Keith Nanney, Carol Elizabeth Noy, Jack Ward Page, Jr., Albert Clayton Smith, John Wendell Wenberg, Jr., James Edward Williams, Neal Eddins Wingfield.

2009 Commissioned and Ordained Clergy

Taylor Mills — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:07:24 +0000

HUGE Congrats to the Newly Commissioned and Ordained Clergy of the NC Annual Conference……..
Provisional Deacon: Kristina Johnson Yeatts
Provisional Elders: Joseph David Beam IV, Harriett Taylor Bounds, Timothy Davis Catlett, Dalma Lynn Garrell Cribb, Alice Wade Davis, Christi DeSha Dye, Elizabeth Ann Gaines, James Haywood Henderson, David Lewis King, Laura Fine Ledford, John Michael McAllister, Donald Thomas Miller, Edward Nicholas Priestaf, Carolyn Nancy Beers Roy, Kelli Summers Sorg, Marc Herman Werner, Nathan Andrew Wittman
Deacon in Full Connection: None
Elders in Full Connection: Julia Ellen Alliger, Matthew Reeves Ashburn, Janet Lea Balasko, Donna Morrissette Banks, David John Blackman, Charles Michael Coppock, Scott Allen Dodson, John Farron Duncan, Seong Il Eom, Michael David Gira, Jr., Franklin Karl Grant, Jared Andrew Hanson, Woo-Il (Paul) Lee, Jane Lee Leechford, Mattheue Brock Locklear, Rhonda Turner Maurer, Christopher Gregory Moore, Jeffrey Raymond Nash, Elmar Karl Neuschaefer, Edward Slee New, Thomas Moore Nichols, Rhonda Riggins Parker, Charles Conrad Pullins, Sandra Barefoot Schaller, Stephen Eugene Smith, Barbara Elaine Swett, Pamela Jane Watkins, James Dean Whittaker, Rani Partridge Woodrow, James Elton Wooten
Associate Member of the Conference: Sue Harvey Owens