Please find below the timetable for the 2005 Conference of the Methodist Church in Ireland, with public services of worship etc highlighted. Members of the public are welcome to observe conference proceedings at any stage during the representative session.
19.30 INSTALLATION OF THE PRESIDENT of the Methodist Church in Ireland, the Rev. Desmond Bain. Thomas Street Methodist Church, Portadown
09.15 Prayers, Welcomes and Conference Administration
10.00 MISSION IN IRELAND: Church Development Board including Home Mission Department and Property Board
11.00 MISSION AND MINISTRY: Edgehill College; Sabbaticals Committee; Local Preachers; Accompanied Self Appraisal
11.45 GREETINGS FROM THE BRITISH CONFERENCE AND OTHER CHURCHES
12.15 WORSHIP AND BIBLE STUDY “Mission Partners”
14.00 MISSION AND FINANCE (1): Stipends and Allowances Board; Ministerial Stipends; Retirement Funds; Children's Fund; Ministers' Medical Fund
15.00 MISSION AND CHURCH LIFE (1): General Committee; Church Membership Statistics
16.00 CONVERSATION ON THE WORK OF GOD
17.30 MISSION IN THE CITY: City Missions
18.00 MISSION AND CARE: Hospital and Prison Chaplaincy; Ministry of Healing; Methodist Child Care Society; Eastwell Residential Home
19.30 CONFERENCE YOUTH NIGHT
10.30 CONFERENCE WORSHIP CELEBRATION
14.30 RECEPTION INTO FULL CONNEXION
14.50 TRIBUTES TO MINISTERS PERMITTED TO RETIRE
15.30 FAITH AND ORDER
16.00 CONNEXIONS
16.30 SERVICE OF COMMISSIONING FOR FIRST YEAR PROBATIONERS
19.00 ORDINATION SERVICE Thomas Street Methodist Church
09.15 Prayers and Administration
MISSION AND ECUMENISM: Covenant Council; Inter Church Relations
MISSION AND LEARNING: Board of Education; Colleges and Schools; Methodist College; Wesley College; Gurteen College
11.00 MISSION AND SOCIETY: Council on Social Responsibility
12.00 WORSHIP AND BIBLE STUDY “Mission Minded”
14.00 MISSION IN THE WORLD: Methodist Missionary Society (Ireland); Methodist Women in Ireland; World Development and Relief
15.00 MISSION AND YOUTH: Department of Youth and Children's Work
MISSION AND CHURCH LIFE (2): General Committee
16.00 Election of President-Designate; Election of District Superintendents
16.10 SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE FOR DECEASED MINISTERS
17.30 MISSION AND FINANCE (2): Budget Committee; Comprehensive Assessment
18.00 MISSION AND COMMUNICATION: Communications Committee including Methodist Church Website
18.30 Wesley Historical Society
19.30 CONFERENCE MISSION MEETING
09.15 Prayers and Administration
09.45 MISSION AND FINANCE (2): Trustees of the Methodist Church in Ireland
10.30 Adoption of Accounts
10.45 Appointments
11.00 Memorials and Uncompleted Business
12.00 WORSHIP AND BIBLE STUDY
12.30 Closing Courtesies
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