2020 Ordination and Commissioning Candidates
Ordination is chiefly understood as the act of the Holy Spirit. As a liturgical act, ordination is also understood as the public prayer of the church confirming the Spirit’s call to individuals and asking for them gifts and power for the ministry of deacon or elder.
The rite of ordination is the climax of a process in which the faith community discerns and validates the call, the gifts, and effectiveness for apostolic ministry by agency of the Holy Spirit. Always more than a single liturgical moment, ordination is a full process in which all of the baptized share.
The process begins with the church’s discernment of God’s call to individuals for service as ordained leaders, continues with support and scrutiny as they prepare for this work, culminates in electing them to the office and work of a deacon or an elder, and is celebrated and enacted liturgically in the service of ordination.
Noted below are all who in 2020, have been called to be ordained and set apart in ministry:
Licensed Local Pastors
John Esposito
Nathalie Ernst
Joseph G. Lalanne
Jeremiah Paul
Wayne Redman
Annette Rodriguez
Tyler Sprouse
Barbara Whitlow
Commissioned as Provisional Members
Scharlise M. Dorsey
Jinwoo Kim
Dorlimar Lebron Malave
Ordination as Elder
Elizabeth C. Abel
Dong Hyun Choi
Prince Donkor
Lillian M. Hertel
Bruce P. Lamb
Sun Joo Lee
Kirk D. Lyons, Sr.
Angela M. Redman
Siobhan Sargent
Margaret Schramm Horn
Ordination as Deacon
Marcia A. White-Smith
Recognition as Elder in Full Connection
Althea Spencer Miller
Commissioned as Deaconesses
Monica Bartley “The Summons”
Christi Campos
Gail Douglas-Boykin
