BVI Methodist Church to host over 100 delegates for 2024 business conference
The 218th Annual Meeting of the District will witness two ministers being ordained on 18 January at the Sea Cows Bay Methodist Church starting at 6 pm where the Connexional President, Bishop, The Reverend Everald L. Galbraith will preside at the Service of Ordination.
The Methodist Church BVI Circuit is also hosting the 5th Triennial Leeward Islands District Conference which is the first physical gathering of the Leeward Islands District since the Pandemic.
“With thanksgiving, we gather, for we have come this far by faith, leaning on God, our refuge and strength. Now in its 218th Annual Meeting, the 100 plus clergy and lay delegates are journeying from as far as Holland in Europe and all across the Leeward Islands for the 11 to 20 January meetings, devotions, and special services,” the church said in a release.
Public Invited to events
As such, the public is being invited to join in various worship services which includes the Welcome Service on Sunday, January 14, 2023, at 4 pm at Road Town Methodist Church. A roll call of the 15 Circuits and Mission will feature and be celebrated all week long with the flying of country flags at the Road Town Roundabout and at the Road Town Methodist Church on Main Street.
The Church said Midday devotions will be held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 12:15 pm at Road Town Methodist Church and the Ordination Service of two young men, Rev. Jean Ronald Charles and Rev. Erick Valentin Alexander will be held on Thursday, January 18, 6pm at Sea Cows Bay Methodist Church.
Then on Friday, a Communion Service will signal the closing of the Conference at 7 pm at the Road Town Methodist Church. This Conference will also elect a new District President to succeed Bishop, the Reverend Charles A. Seaton who is completing his third triennium.
The Methodist Church in the BVI is one of 15 Circuits and a Mission that comprises the Leeward Islands District of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas (MCCA). The District meets each year, triennially in full Conference and in Council during the intervening years. The Church is headed by the President of the Connexional Conference who has pastoral and spiritual oversight over the whole church.
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