Registrar’s Report to the Fall Meeting - Metropolitan Association New York Conference UCC

(April 2, 2018– November 1, 2018)

RECEIVED MEMBERS IN DISCERNMENT

Phyllis Coachman, Safe Haven United Church of Christ

Christopher Dieguez, Garden City Community Church

Jared Gilbert, Broadway United Church of Christ

Thomas Lance Hurst, Judson Memorial Church

Antigone Lowery, United Church of Spring Valley

Ruth Shaffer, Safe Haven United Church of Christ

Marjorie Watrobski, Garden City Community Church

Terry Todd –Seeking Privilege of Call

Joyce Dugger – Seeking Privilege of Call

ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCILS

Amy Harbo, Judson Memorial Church - April 2018

Marie Tracy, Broadway United Church of Christ – September 2018

Michael Vanacore, Park Avenue Christian Church – October 2018

ORDINATIONS

James Sterner, Broadway United Church of Christ, June 2018, called as Pastor to Webster Congregational Christian Church, UCC, Havre de Grace, MD

Nigel Pearce, Grace Congregational Church of Harlem, July 2018

Valerie Ross, Judson Memorial Church, scheduled Nov. 10, 2018, called as Designated Pastor to Nazarene Congregational UCC

Doreen Forde, Corona Congregational Church UCC, scheduled Nov. 17, 2018, called as Associate Pastor at Corona Congregational Church UCC

Marie Tracy, Broadway United Church of Christ, scheduled Dec. 1, 2018, called as Hospice Chaplain at Compassus

Michael Vanacore, Park Avenue Christian Church, scheduled Dec. 9, 2018, called as Associate Pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church

INSTALLATIONS / CALLS

Nigel Pearce – installed Senior Pastor at Grace Congregational Church of Harlem, July 2018

Reginald Brantley – installed Settled Pastor at Corona Congregational Church UCC, October 2018

Doreen Forde, scheduled Nov. 17, 2018 as Associate Pastor at Corona Congregational Church UCC

GRANTED DUAL STANDING – None                        GRANTED PRIVILEGE OF CALL – None

TRANSFERS INTO THE ASSOCIATION

Jeffrey Mansfield, September 2018, Interim Pastor, Broadway United Church of Christ

Kelly Hough Rogers, July 2018, Senior Minister, Scarsdale Congregational Church UCC

TRANSFERS OUT OF THE ASSOCIATION - None

DEATHS OF ASSOCIATION MINISTERS – Gard Rowe, July 14, 2018

RETIRED – None

CURRENT MEMBERS IN DISCERNMENT

Coachman, Phyllis

Birchett, Colleen

Dieguez, Christopher

*Forde, Doreen

Harbo, Amy

Howell, Rayford

Hurst, Thomas Lance

Kinsman, Samuel

Lowery, Antigone

Pugh-Reefer, Vanessa

*Ross, Valerie

Shaffer, Ruth      

Thomas, Asayo

*Tracey, Marie (Marty)

Tucker, Josephine

*Vanacore, Michael

Vannoy-Kwame, Anesta

Watrobski, Marjorie

Terry Todd –Seeking Privilege of Call

Joyce Dugger – Seeking Privilege of Call

* Ordinations scheduled in 2018 : Ross, November 10; Forde, November 17; Tracy, December 1; and Vanacore, December 9.

Licenses to be Approved – NEW

Christophe Dieguez, Garden City Community Church

Marjorie Watrobski, Garden City Community Church

Respectfully Submitted in Service, ClaudetteJoy Spence, Registrar