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2023 Programme

Agenda

Agenda

 

Complete Agenda in one Pdf

Agenda Volume 1 

Agenda Volume 2

Agenda Volume 3

 

All reports are also listed individually below

Foreword to the 2023 Conference Agenda

1 Election and Induction of the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference 

2 First Report of the Conference Business Committee

3 Methodist Council, part 1

4 Report of the Presbyteral Session Business Committee 

5 Conference Arrangements 

6 Special Resolutions 

7 Action for Children 

8 The Trustees for the Bailiwick of Guernsey Methodist Church Purposes 

9 The Trustees for Jersey Methodist Church Purposes 

10 Methodist Homes (MHA)

11 Connexional Allowances Committee

12 A justice-seeking church: the report of the Walking with Micah project 

13 Joint Advisory Committee on the Ethics of Investment (JACEI) 

14 Services of Marriage 

15 Committee on Methodist Law and Polity (1) 

16 Methodist Forces Board 

17 Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes (TMCP) 

18 Methodist Schools Appointments 

19 All We Can

20 3Generate 2022 – Methodist Children and Youth Assembly

21 Faith and Order 

22 Methodist Council part 2

23 Safeguarding Committee

24 Unified Statement of Connexional Finances

25 Budget

26 Pension Schemes

27 Online Church

28 Stationing Committee

29 Authorisations to Preside

30 Referred Memorials and Notices of Motion

31 Rydal Penrhos change to Articles

32 Presbyters transferring out or permitted to serve another Conference or church or to serve abroad or reside abroad

33 Presbyteral transfers and reinstatements

34 Relief and Extension Fund for Methodism in Scotland

35 Composition of the Conference

36 Ecumenical Report

37 Peake Trust

38 Methodist Ministers’ Housing Society

39 Central Finance Board

40 MCPOC

41 Authorisations Committee

42 Law and Polity (2)

43 There is Room – triennial membership returns

44 Necessitous Local Preachers Fund

45 Appointments of District Chairs

46 District Resolution

47 Second report of the Conference Business Committee

48 Presbyters and deacons becoming supernumerary, returning to the active work

49 Committee Appointments

50 Ministers of other churches

51 Appreciations

52 Conference Diaconal Committee

53 New Room

54 Managing Trustees of Central Hall Westminster

55 MDO General Report

56 Law and Polity: Section 71

57 Oversight and Trusteeship

58 District amalgamation

59 Memorials to the Conference

 

Conference Rules of Procedure 

Presbyters attending at their own expense

Membership of the Conference

22 June

Thursday 22 June

  1. 14:15 Presbyteral Session

    1. Holy Communion including the Pastoral Address

  2. 15:45 Tea Break

  3. 16:15 Presbyteral Session

    1. Preliminary Business

  4. 16:30 Presbyteral Session

    1. Session exploring leadership issues

  5. 18:15 Evening prayer

  6. 18:30 Adjourn

23 June

Friday 23 June

  1. 09:15 Morning worship

  2. 09.30 Presbyteral Session

    1. The Pastoral Address

  3. 10:45 Coffee Break

  4. 11:15 Presbyteral Session

    1. Walking with Micah
    2. Adoption of the obituaries

  5. 12:15 Break

  6. 12:30 Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance

    1. Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance

  7. 13:00 Lunch

  8. 14:15 Presbyteral Session

    1. Oversight and Trusteeship and purpose of Presbyteral Session

  9. 15:15 Presbyteral Session

    1. Closed session
    2. Provision for those who are visitors or attending at their own expense

  10. 16:15 Tea Break

  11. 16:45 Presbyteral Session

    1. Authorisations to Preside
    2. Statistics for Mission
    3. Notices of Motion
    4. Presbyters becoming supernumerary
    5. Annual Inquiry

  12. 18:15 Closing of Presbyteral Session

    1. Closing worship
    2. Motion for the adjournment

  13. 18:30 Adjourn

24 June

Saturday 24 June

  1. 14:15 Opening of the Conference and Induction of the President and Vice-President

    1. Induction of the President and Vice-President
    2. The President’s Address

  2. 16:00 Break

  3. 16:45 Representative Business

    1. Vice-President's Address
    2. First and Second reports of the Conference Business Committee
    3. Conference Diaconal Committee

  4. 18:15 Evening prayer

25 June

Sunday 25 June

  1. 10:45 Reception into Full Connexion and Conference Worship

    1. Reception into Full Connexion and Conference Worship

  2. 12:15 Adjourn

  3. 16:00 Ordination Services

    1. Ordination Services
26 June

Monday 26 June

  1. 09:15 Representative Business

    1. Morning prayer
    2. Methodist Council
    3. Memorials M14, M18, M19

  2. 11:00 Break

  3. 11:30 Representative Business

    1. Bible Study
    2. Proposed North West England District
    3. Methodist Council
    4. Oversight and Trusteeship: Sections A, B, C

  4. 12:45 Representative Business

    1. Action for Children

  5. 13:00 Lunch break

  6. 14:15 Representative Business

    1. Methodist Council
    2. Accounts
    3. Connexional Allowances Committee
    4. Memorials M15, M16
    5. Composition of the Conference
    6. Notices of Motion 102, 103
    7. Introduction to Walking with Micah

  7. 16:15 Break

  8. 16:45 Representative Business

    1. Closed session
    2. Evening prayer

  9. 18:30 Adjourn

27 June

Tuesday 27 June

  1. 09:15 Representative Business

    1. Morning prayer
    2. District Resolution
    3. Online Church
    4. Pension Schemes
    5. Presentation of the Budget
    6. Memorials and Notices of Motion relating to the Budget
    7. Joint Advisory Committee on the Ethics of Investment

  2. 11:00 Break

  3. 11:30 Representative Business

    1. Bible Study
    2. Walking with Micah

  4. 13:00 - PM Lunch break

  5. 14:15 Representative Business

    1. Workshops: God for All

  6. 16:15 Break

  7. 16:45 Representative Business

    1. Ecumenical Report
    2. Faith and Order Committee
    3. Marriage liturgies
    4. 3Generate
    5. Triennial membership returns
    6. Memorials M3, M17, M21

  8. 18:15 Representative Business

    1. Evening prayer

  9. 18:30 Adjourn

28 June

Wednesday 28 June

  1. 09:15 Representative Business

    1. Service of Holy Communion

  2. 10:30 Break

  3. 11:00 Representative Business

    1. Bible Study
    2. Memorial M22
    3. Safeguarding Committee
    4. Relief and Extension Fund for Methodism in Scotland
    5. Faith and Order Committee
    6. Services of Marriage

  4. 13:00 Lunch break

  5. 14:15 Representative Business

    1. Methodist Council: Sections M, N
    2. Memorials M2, M7, M8, M9, M10, M11, M12, M13
    3. Faith and Order Committee: authorisations to preside

  6. 16:15 Break

  7. 16:45 Representative Business

    1. Special Resolutions
    2. Law and Polity Committee
    3. Memorial M20
    4. Evening prayer
    5. There is Room: Triennial Membership Returns 2019-2022

  8. 18:30 Adjourn

29 June

Thursday 29 June

  1. 09:15 Representative Business

    1. Morning prayer
    2. Connexional Central Services Budget
    3. Composition of the Conference
    4. Oversight and Trusteeship: Sections D, E, F, G
    5. Candidating for Ministry – Standing Order amendments
    6. Memorials M3, M17, M21

  2. 11:30 Representative Business

    1. Adoption of the Budget
    2. En bloc items
    3. En bloc Memorials
    4. Conference Arrangements
    5. Authorisations Committee
    6. Presbyters and Deacons becoming supernumerary or returning to the active work
    7. Ministerial Candidates’ and Probationers’ Oversight Committee
    8. Presbyters and Deacons from other Churches
    9. Designations for Appointment of District Chairs
    10. Committee Appointments
    11. Appreciations
    12. Law and Polity Sub-Committee
    13. The Stations
    14. Daily Record
    15. Administration and Appreciations
    16. The Journal Resolution
    17. The Adjournment Resolution

  3. 13:00 Adjourn

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