N.Z. METHODIST CHURCH

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27495, 1 November 1954, Page 12

N.Z. METHODIST CHURCH

TEN-DAY CONFERENCE IN CHRISTCHURCH INAUGURAL SERVICE ON THURSDAY During the 10-day conference of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, which will open in Christchurch on Thursday evening, 63 reports will be considered on church and public affairs. Some 35 ministers throughout the Dominion will be appointed to other circuits by the stationing committee and Christchurch charges expected to be affected are Addington, Shirley and Lyttelton.

The conference will be opened at toe Durham Street Methodist Church on Thursday evening, when the inaugural address will be delivered by the new president (toe Rev. C. O. Hailwood), a former minister of toe Edgeware Road Methodist Church. The examination committee will meet

tomorrow and on Wednesday to test orally ordinands and candidates for the ministry. Tomorrow evening candidates for toe ministry will conduct trial services at toe Cashmere, Addington, Linwood, Bryndwr, and Edgeware road churches, which will be attended by committees of ministers who win make reports to toe examination committee. On Wednesday a commission on ministerial training will meet. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Methodist Women's Guild Fellowship will be held on Wednesday evening. , Much of the detailed work of the conference will be dealt with by eight committees on Thursday. AH ministers ot the church are stationed each year by toe conference and a stationing committee of 35 ministero and laymen will bring down a draft of appointments for the approval of the full conference. Ministers changing charges will begin duty in their new circuits on toe second Sunday in February, 1955. Ordination services ot toe Methodist Church are held during toe annual conference. This year they will be conducted *! toe Durham Street Church next Sunday. The ordination service for ministers will be in toe morning, when Ute Rev. C. O. Hailwood will preside n*e%ve^^e WUlbeO " M?^&gne rf open a conference garden party at Atiberley Park next Saturday. A youth demonstration will be presented at the Civic Theatre on November 30. About 300 representatives will attend the conference, to review the com. mittee work of the churches. They will be asked to consider toe launching of •“ SPPcal for £50,000 for extension work in new housing areas throughout New Zealand. Conference will be requested to set up regional joint committees to proride, at district level, liaison between Presbyterians, Methodist district synods and Congregational Churches. The public questions report includes for discussion sections on indecent literature, spiritual healing, television and industrial relations.

Ministers attending conference will preach at all Methodist churches in toe North Canterbury circuit at both morning and evening services next