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Cornwall
District Disability Officer & Deaf Link Person
District Communications
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Rev. Peter Facer:- District Property Secretary, is responsible, when requested, for helping churches and circuits with building matters. This involves visits, receiving and, with the Chair of District, approving schedules for building schemes for submission to the Property Office in Manchester for permission to proceed. In addition, it involves liaison with the District committees - Synod, Policy Committee and Property Grants and Stationing Committee - and also with the Connexional Property Office. Checking and the submission to Manchester of the annual finance schedules (Schedule B) is also carried out. A report on building schemes is to be found in the annual Spring Synod Agenda, and the finance schedules are available for public scrutiny during the day of that synod. After thirty years teaching in secondary and higher education, trained in Durham. Served ten years in the St Ives and Hayle Circuit, the last three as Superintendent. Chaplain to the Hayle Day Care Centre, a year as Chaplain to the Mayor of St Ives, a term as Moderator of Churches Together in Hayle and District, shared in chaplaincy work at St Michael’s Hospital, regular assemblies at Hayle Community School and did pastoral work there in crises. Cornwall District Property Secretary from 1993 to present. Retired to Falmouth in 2001: part-time minister of Penryn and L.P. Tutor.
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Revd. Peter Facer District Property Secretary |
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District disability Officer and Deaf Link Person
Stephen Bales:- As
District Disability Officer, I seek to be a point of contact for
people with a disability who are seeking to access the church's
services, ministry and message. Equally, I try to encourage and
facilitate our churches in their accessibility to all people,
whatever their abilities. Further to this, where possible, I want to
work with people with disabilities who are seeking not just access
to our work, worship and witness, but also to participate in these
activities. In the Cornwall Methodist District we are blessed in
having excellent ecumenical relationships. These bear fruit in
connection with the needs and potential of disabled people. Hence I
am privileged in attending the Diocesan Disability Awareness
Committee, whose work and resources are available to all churches,
regardless of denomination. Equally so, we benefit greatly through
the Anglican Deaf Chaplaincy, and my membership of the Deaf
Chaplain's Support Group helps to maintain links of mutual benefit. Although not an expert in all matters of disability, I am glad to
continue to grow in learning more about ministry and mission for,
with, and by disabled people. In a District which seeks to be
inclusive as part of God's Church, I welcome those who may wish to
contact me regarding any disability related issue. If I don't know
the answers to every question, I might know how and where to find
out, with you and for you. Yours in Christ, Stephen D Bales.
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Revd. Stephen Bales
District disability Officer and Deaf Link
Person
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District Ministries Panel Secretary District Ministries Panel Secretary. The secretary arranges for the Cornwall District Vocational and Candidating committee meetings and communicates between the applicants (foundation training) and candidates (to preordination training), with the committee and the Formation in Ministry Office in London. These committees meet to discern the calling of those who want to enter into formal training for ministry within the Methodist church that leads either to lay work or ordination to the Presbyterial or Diaconal orders of the Methodist Church.
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 Revd. Danny Wheadon District Ministries Panel Secretary |
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District Communications Officer
My
role in the District is to be involved in communicating what the
Methodist Church is up to. It involves being in touch with
journalists on our newspapers, TV and radio outlets to pass on news
releases and sometime to find appropriate people to comment on a
news story. Visit my weblog on www.cybervicar.blogspot.com.
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 Revd. Gareth Hill |
