17 July 2017
President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference meets the Archbishop of Canterbury

The President and Vice-President of the Methodist
Conference visited Lambeth Palace on Friday (14th July) for a
meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Accompanied by senior figures from both churches, the
President, the Revd Loraine N Mellor, and the Vice-President, Jill
Baker, met Archbishop Justin Welby to discuss matters of mutual
concern and were encouraged by reports of Anglicans and Methodists
working together in mission, evangelism, witness and service all
over England.
Their wide-ranging discussions also took in the future of Europe, prayer, evangelism and witness, and the churches' engagement with political and public issues.
The President, Vice-President and the Archbishop commended the
report 'Mission and Ministry in Covenant' to both churches for
study and reflection together. This report sets out a proposal for
a full relationship of communion between the two churches and a
reconciled ordained ministry. The proposal, contained in a report
requested by the 2014 Methodist Conference and Church of England
General Synod, builds on the existing relationship between the two
churches expressed in the 2003 Anglican-Methodist
Covenant.
Image courtesy of Lambeth Palace
Image courtesy of Lambeth Palace