Deaconesses and Home Missioners

Consecrated, Commissioned

Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News

Photo by Carolyn Winslow

Sixty deaconesses and home missioners from 29 conferences were consecrated at the United Women in Faith Assembly 2022 in Orlando, Florida. The office of Deaconess and Home Missioner, a division of United Methodist Women, “enables laity to respond to a vocational call to be Christ in the world through consecration for lifetime servant ministries of love, justice, and service.”

Among the 60, were three from Minnesota: Deaconesses Carolyn Winslow and Cindy Saufferer, and Home Missioner Louis Porter II.

These three as well as Deaconess Nicole Weydt (who could not attend Assembly) were also commissioned at the 2022 Minnesota Annual Conference by Bishop David Bard and assisted with worship at Annual Conference.

The Office of Deaconess and Home Missioner invites those who are discerning a call to ministry to attend a virtual discernment event taking place on Thursday, October 6, 2022.

L-R: Bishop Bard; Deaconesses Cindy Saufferer, Nicole Weydt,

and Carolyn Winslow; Home Missioner Louis Porter II.

Photo by MN Annual Conference

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