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Delegates make clergy housing priority
The Florida Conference Committee on Clergy Housing was given the daunting task at last year's annual conference event of reviewing the guidelines for parsonage housing for the first time in 20 years.
The committee presented a report of its findings and recommendations May 30 during the last business session of the 2003 Florida Annual Conference Event here.
Among its four recommendations the committee proposed standards for parsonages and guidelines for churches providing housing allowances. The committee also recommended transferring the responsibility of providing furniture from churches to clergy families and suggested churches form a housing committee to handle disputes between a minister and the church.
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Photo by Michael Wacht |
| Delegates to the 2003 Florida Annual Conference assembled and bagged 3,000 School Kits for children in the Eastern Angola Conference. Local youth groups also helped assemble the kits and pack them for shipping. |
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Conference tackles resolutions; presents lay, clergy awards
While delegates to the 2003 Florida Annual Conference Event spent time worshipping and fellowshipping, they also focused their attention on handling conference business, such as:
 adopting five categories that reflect the life stages of churches and eight characteristics of a healthy church proposed by the Office of Congregational Transformation;
approving the Conference Commission on Archives and History's revised plans to build the Florida Conference Heritage Center at the Life Enrichment Center in Leesburg and an anticipated budget of $890,000;
consecrating 90 summer camp counselors for their service to thousands of campers at the Leesburg Retreat Center; and
collecting a total of $122,000 for the Florida Conference's Council of Bishops' Initiative on Children and Poverty task force (BICAP).
The conference also recognized clergy and laity who have shown leadership in evangelism and education.
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Beginning With Praise, Remembrance |
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Photo by the Rev. David L. Adams |
| The Rev. Ana Jackson (left) and the Rev. Linda Tice (right) sing together during the opening worship service of the 2003 Florida Annual Conference. The conference theme was "To Serve The Present Age," commemorating the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Wesley. |
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Photo by the Rev. David L. Adams |
| The 2003 Florida Annual Conference Event began with the traditional singing of "Are We Yet Alive" and communion
during the opening worship celebration. |
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Health fair finds possible illness
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That old saying proved true at the 2003 Florida Annual Conference Event.
For the first time ever the annual gathering featured a health fair May 29 and 30 in the exhibition hall of the Lakeland Center. The fair diagnosed 12 people with significantly high blood sugar levels, indicating a risk for developing diabetes, and sent two people to local emergency rooms because their blood pressures were high enough to put them at risk of suffering a stroke, according to Ginny Pearcy, coordinator of the health fair and the Florida Conference Parish Nurses ministry.
"We need to become more responsible for our physical selves," said Toni Parrish, co-chair of the conference's Health and Wholeness Team. "…We need to be more proactive in these times of skyrocketing health care costs and high prescription drugs. We need to take better care of ourselves so we can be of better service to God."
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Photo by Michael Wacht |
| All ages are welcome in the Men's Chorus from Christ Church United Methodist in Ft. Lauderdale. The group led worship during the 2003 Annual Conference laity session. |
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