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Commission on Ministry for the Diocese of Delaware

The Commission on Ministry assists the Bishop in his role of recruiting and discerning vocations in lay and ordained ministry.


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Commission on Ministry Report for 2006:

The Commission on Ministry (COM) held five regular meetings during 2006, and conducted one interview day with thirteen persons interested in pursuing a call to the ordained ministry of deacons. The chair of the COM also attended three meetings of the Lay Ministry Support Team, and represented the Diocese of Delaware at the Province III COM Conference in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The COM also maintained contact with Elizabeth Masterson as she completed her final year of studies at General Theological Seminary, and attested to her readiness for ordination to the priesthood, which occurred on December 12, 2006. Additionally, the COM showed its support for Jennifer Andrews-Weckerly as began her studies at the Virginia Theological Seminary, with the possibility of her ordination occurring in 2009.

Early in 2006 the work of revising the diocesan discernment and ordination process for the priesthood was put on hold pending the changes the General Convention was expected to make to the Ministry Canons. Work on a program for deacons went forward, with considerable progress by the Committee on the Diaconate to put the procedures in place for the discernment and training of potential candidates for ordination as deacons.

Plans for 2007 include completion of the rewriting the diocesan procedures for priesthood, continued involvement in the deacon program, and looking at the area of lay leadership with attention given to the licensing of lay ministries.

The Commission members are: The Rev. James M. Bimbi (St. James Mill Creek Hundred, Wilmington), The Rev. Patricia Bird (Trinity Church, Wilmington), Ms. Patricia Hampton (St. Andrews & St. Matthews, Wilmington), Mr. Barry Hutton (Immanuel-on-the-Green, New Castle), The Rev. Canon Thom Jensen (St. Thomas’, Newark), The Rev. Rita Nelson (St. Philips’, Laurel), The Rev. Tony Pompa (St. Anne’s, Middletown), Ms. Angie Rummel (St. Peter’s, Lewes), and Mr. E. Naudain Simons, III (St. Nicholas, Newark).

--The Rev. James M. Bimbi, Chair, January, 2007

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