METHODIST CHURCH

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1926, Page 10

METHODIST CHURCH

TARANAKI-WANGANUI DISTRICT. SYNOD OPENS TO-DAY. The annual Methodist synod for the Taranaki-Wanga'hui district opens at New Plymouth at 10 a.m. to-day, when the Ministerial committee meets. The session will continue until Thursday morning, all meetings being held in the Whiteley Memorial Church. This evening at 7.30 p.m., the Synod meets as a district Home Mission Committee. To-morrow, the representative session of the Synod opens at 9.30 a.m., under the presidency of the Rev. W. J. Oxbrow (Hawera), chairman of the district, who will conduct communion service. assisted by several of the ministerial members of the Synod. An address will be given by the Rev. A. E. Jefferson (Marton). A welcome to the visiting delegates will be extended by the Mayor of New Plymouth (Mr. F. E. Wilson) and on behalf of the local Methodists by Mr. C. E. Bellringer, M.P. Mr. E. Dixon (Hawera) will acknowledge the welcome. The business session will be continued in the afternoon. In the evening a musical festival service will be held in Whiteley Church, at which a programme of music, including anthems, hymns, solos, duets and quartettes, will be given by the combined choirs of the town Methodist Churches, under the direction of Mr. R. Laurie Cooper, conductor of the Whiteley Church choir. The Rev. T. R. Richards will preside. The business session of the Synod wHI be concluded on Thursday morning at 9.30 o’clock. The representatives to the Synod include 15 ministers, six home missionaries, one deaconer, onq candidate for the ministry and 31 lay representatives. There will be present at the Synod as visitors the Rev. E. P. Blamires, general secretary for the Young People’s Department, and the Rev. J. Cocker, secretary of th© Masterton Children’s home.