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Probationary Elders – L to R, William N. Foust, Kristen G. Freeman, Sharon T. Lee, Angela B. Hollar, Renee K. Easter, Second row, from left: James P. Tate, J. Keith Edwards Vincent A. Harris, Donald W. Mason, Jill B. Rhinehart, David G. Raiford.



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Probationary Elders – L to R, Jack D. Tookey, Jason M. Constantine, Jennifer A. Hege, Gayle G. Montgomery, David J. Lee, Second row, from left: Jeffrey L. Martin, Norman E. Jones, Jr., Stephen G. Knopp II, Luther E. Lingle III, Michael A. Carr, Michael F. Burris.


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Probationary Elders – L to R, Janet Fisher Dixon, Melinda S. Penry, Ashley G. Pickerel, Erin A. Grot, Richard L. Carter, Second row, from left: Rick LeBaube, Larry W. Scott, H.W. “Duke” Walker, Michael A. Binger, Otto D. Harris III, Kelly L. Giese.


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Probationary Deacons – Lori Holliman, Laura Alexander Elliott, Robert R. Webb III, Chris Lakey.


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Associates – Sonia Baca-Zuniga,
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Commissioning service is step in call to ministry
Men and women, in their quest to answer God’s call to ministry, took still another step in this intentional journey, as they knelt at the altar before Bishop J. Lawrence McCleskey and the Rev. Tom Stinson-Wesley, president, Board of Ordained Ministry, on Friday morning in Stuart Auditorium.

In presenting them, Stinson-Wesley said that the candidates completed the educational requirements prescribed by the Book of Discipline and come with the affirmation of their local churches, district committees on ordained ministry and the annual conference Board of Ordained Ministry.

One by one, each of the 37 candidates for probationary status in the Western NC Conference of The United Methodist Church were commissioned. As he laid hands on each candidate, Bishop McCleskey asked God to pour the Holy Spirit upon the person, and to send each one to, “proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, to announce the reign of God, and to equip the church for ministry, in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

Following the commissioning, two persons were received as associate members of the annual conference and presented certificates by Bishop McCleskey.