Joint Implementation Commission Meeting, October 2010

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The next meeting of the Anglican-Methodist Covenant's Joint Implementation Commission takes place this week on Wednesday 6 October 2010.  If you want to know who's on it, follow this link and you will find the members if you scroll down.  I will be posting about this website later in the week.

Today I will highlight some of the issues to be discussed at the meeting on Wednesday.  I may supply more details of specific agenda items in future posts.  Leave a comment if you would like more information about any of these agenda items.

1. Responses to Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (BEM).  This will cover (1) the Methodist response to BEM, 1985 (2) Commentary on Methodist response (3)  BEM on Ministry  (4)  Commentary on CofE response to BEM
2. Relating the Methodist Presidency report to the JIC proposal for a President-Bishop
3. Interchangeability: more thoughts.  A potential rite for the reconciliation of ordained ministries.
4. Progress report on collaboration about Public Issues; Children and Youth Work etc.
5. Communications Strategy
6. Digest of formal statements and decisions by the Methodist Conference on Episcopacy.  These are some of the documents this digest refers to:

• Episcopacy report 1998
• Methodist response to BEM 1985
• Episkope and Episcopacy 2000
• Prospect of Episcopacy 2002

Methodist Encounters with Pope Benedict XVI

Image by Gawain WhiteHawk Photography via FlickrThe following is an extract from the President of Conference's blog.  For more background information, visit a previous post on this blog, 'Methodist President will meet Pope Benedict XVI'.

From there to Edinburgh for the State welcome of the Pope. So important that Methodism in the UK was represented not only by myself - Eunice (this year's Vice President) being involved with very important matters relating to her 'day job'! - but also by the Secretary of the Irish Conference who shook hands with the Pope and received a small medallion. And back for Westminster Abbey and a sense of the grace of God as such a wide variety of Church Leaders processed down that historic aisle. There are always going to be the differences, and the need for much further conversation, but we worshiped God together and prayed together for God's world, remembering that we also work together in so many communities in these lands. Those of you who enjoy being on line will be able to find all the pictures of these events that you want!

This video features the Methodist President Alison Tomlin and Chair of Birmingham District Bill Anderson (wearing a rainbow scarf) in CBN's report on the Pope's visit to the UK.  Unfortunately, I can't embed the video and so follow this link.

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