Appointment of Ministries and Services Personnel
The Executive committee of the Greater New York Conference voted to appoint the following individuals for the various Ministries and Services positions as follows:

a) Adventist Book Center Manager - Nellie Harris
b) Auditor - Dalin Lindsay
c) Camp Berkshire Manager - David Sosa. Effective  December 1, 2014.
d) Men's Ministry - Dr. Alanzo Smith
e) Children's Ministry Director - Barbara Hyde
f) Prayer Ministries Director - Yvonne Knight

13 Greater New York Conference Teachers Commissioned



13 teachers were commissioned on Sabbath October 25, 2014 at the North Bronx Seventh-day Adventist Church.  Dr. G. Earl Knight, president, in delivering the charge, encourage teachers to be faithful in their duties as they educate not just for earth but for eternity.  
 
Teachers are considered for commissioning after a minimum of 6 years of service and successful denominational certification.  Superintendent of Schools, Mrs. Marlene Romeo, says she is "very confident that they see their ministry as teaching and are dedicated to teaching their students about Jesus and things eternal.  Prayer of consecration was offered by Pastor Rohann Wellington.
 
The newly commissioned teachers are:
 
1. Shemika Campbell, Brooklyn SDA School
2. Evelyn Chavez, Bronx-Manhattan SDA School
3. Paulette Davis, Brooklyn Elementary School
4. Lana DeGuzman, Jackson Heights SDA School
5. Linden Hislop, Oakview Preparatory School
6. Joan Leslie, Oakview Preparatory School 
7. Marrissa Osbourne, Jackson Heights SDA School
8. Anthony Palmer, Greater New York Academy
9. Cristina Posadas, Jackson Heights SDA School
10. Shirley-Ann Thomas Laurencin, Whispering Pines School
11. Beverly Waithe, Oakview Preparatory School
12. Sydonne Whitter-Walker, Greater New York Academy
13. Merine Williams, Brooklyn SDA School
 

Adventist Church sets vote on Women's Ordination for next July
By Edwin Manuel Garcia/Adventist News Network

Adventist Church Vice President Mike Ryan chairs Annual Council on Tuesday, October 14 as delegates overwhelmingly voted to place an item on the agenda of next year's General Conference Session asking if regional divisions may allow women to be ordained as ministers. The vote was 243 to 44, with 3 abstaining. [photo: Viviene Martinelli


The Seventh-day Adventist Church as early as next July may decide to take a historic vote on whether to allow women to be ordained ministers.

The decision to allow for a vote was made today by the General Conference Executive Committee at the Church's world headquarters during the 2014 Annual Council. A vote on women's ordination could put an end to-or further prolong-a decades-old debate that has threatened to divide the denomination, according to those on both sides of the issue.

With 243 votes in favor and 44 against, and at the end of daylong deliberation, the Executive Committee agreed to place the following question on the agenda of the 2015 General Conference Session in July, which sets policy for the entire Church:

"Whereas, The unity for which Jesus prayed is vitally important to the witness of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and;

"Whereas, The Seventh-day Adventist Church seeks to engage every member in its worldwide mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ among people from every nation, culture and ethnicity, and;

"Whereas, Various groups appointed by the General Conference and its divisions have carefully studied the Bible and Ellen G White writings with respect to the ordination of women and have not arrived at consensus as to whether ministerial ordination for women is unilaterally affirmed or denied, and;

"Whereas, The Seventh-day Adventist Church affirms that "God has ordained that the representatives of His Church from all parts of the earth, when assembled in a General Conference Session, shall have authority"

"Therefore, The General Conference Executive Committee requests delegates in their sacred responsibility to God at the 2015 General Conference Session to respond to the following question: 

"After your prayerful study on ordination from the Bible, the writings of Ellen G White, and the reports of the study commissions, and;

"After your careful consideration of what is best for the Church and the fulfillment of its mission,

"Is it acceptable for division executive committees, as they may deem it appropriate in their territories, to make provision for the ordination of women to the gospel ministry? Yes or No"[.]

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