METHODIST SYNOD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23505, 16 November 1939, Page 12

METHODIST SYNOD

POSITION OF MISSIONS SATISFACTORY REPORTS A satisfactory position in the Home and Maori Missions work was shown in reports presented yesterday at the Auckland synod of the Methodist Church. Other subjects discussed included the annual report on Trinity Theological College, presented by the principal, the Rev. Dr. H. Ranston. The need for a greater number of candidates for the ministry was stressed by different speakers. Reference was also made to the success of Mr. M. Winiata, the first Maori to complete the full theological training for the ministry. Regret was expressed at the retirement from the staff of Trinity College of the Rev. C. H. Laws, and the retirement in 1941 of the principal, Dr. Ranston. Both had been on the staff for 20 years.

SOUTH AUCKLAND DISTRICT ADVANCE OF YOUTH WORK [FROJI OUR OWN CORRESrONDKNT] CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday Ministerial and lay representatives of Methodist circuits and churches in the South Auckland district met this morning in the Cambridge Methodist Church for the opening session of the annual synod of the district: There was an attendance of over 60, presided over by the Rev. It. B. Tinslev, of Hamilton. The district statistics of youth work disclosed a membership in young women's and girls' Bible classes of 433, an increase of 107. There are 20 affiliated classes and 14 known unaffiliated classes. There are 372 members of young men's classes, an increase of 84. Sunday scholars number 1717, an increase of 30.