PROGRESS OF METHODISM

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 13

PROGRESS OF METHODISM

SYNOD MEETS MEMBERSHIP INCREASE Methodist ministers and laymen attended the opening of the Auckland District Methodist Synod this morning in the Pitt Street Church Sunday School. There were well over 100 present. The synod will continue probably until Friday. The officers elected were:—Secretary, Rev. W. T. Blight; assistant secretary, Rev. F. Leadley; journal secretary, Rev. J. H. Allen; letter writer. Rev. W. Rowe; reporters, Rev. J. R. Nelson and Rev. F. J. Martin. The following recommendations are to be made to conference as to appointments to Auckland circuits next year: Auckland Central, Pitt Street, a probationer (additional) to be placed at Mt. Roskill; Auckland West, the second minister to be a probationer, in place of an ordained minister. The Paparoa circuit is to be granted a further year’s exemption from the appointment of a married minister. The Kaukapakapa and Helensville Plome Mission Station is recommended to be restored to the status of two separate home mission stations. General statistical returns indicated an encouraging consolidation and expansion of church activity in the Auckland district, the salient features of the report being a slight increase in senior membership, and gratifying additions to the number of churches and preaching places, lay preachers and Sundayschools. . The Rev. Blight pointed out that with the introduction of broadcasting there were more participating in the church services now than ever and this fact should be taken in conjunction with the statistics.