THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF ARKANSAS JOURNAL CONTENTS JOURNAL OF THE 134TH ANNUAL CONVENTION DIOCESAN CONVENTION P.O. Box 164668,Little Rock, AR 72216-4668 Current Officers and Staff Phone: 501-372-2168; outside Little Rock 866-887-1114 Roll of Convention – Clergy and Lay ..................................................................1 Fax: 501-372-2147 Minutes of the Convention................................................................................12 Web Address: www.arkansas.anglican.org Minutes of the Reconvened Convention November 11, 2006.………………....34 Of the Convention Convention Committees, 2006..................................................................40 The Bishop’s Address, 2006.....................................................................41 The Bishop’s Official Acts, 2005 ...............................................................47 Report of the Registrar, 2005....................................................................48 Appointments Requiring Concurrence....................................no report filed Appointments Not Requiring Concurrence .............................no report filed Necrology................................................................................no report filed The Bishop of the Diocese of Arkansas Program and Mission The Right Reverend Larry Earl Maze Board of Trustees .....................................................................................50 Budget Committee ..................................................................no report filed Canon for Congregational Development Executive Council and Cathedral Chapter................................................51 The Reverend Canon Dennis G. Campbell Finance, Department of ..........................................................no report filed Standing Committee ...............................................................no report filed Archdeacon for Ministry Development The Venerable Joyce Hardy Faith and Ministry Development Camp Mitchell Board of Trustees..............................................................56 Treasurer Camp Mitchell Summer Camp Program ...................................................58 Mr. Murray Rudisill Children and Youth Ministries, Office of....................................................59 Christian Formation Commission............................................no report filed Chancellor Church Women, Episcopal .......................................................................60 Mr. John Tisdale Campus Ministry, Division of (St. Martin’s University Center).no report filed Community of Hope ..................................................................................62 Executive for Finance Day School Commission, Episcopal .......................................no report filed Mrs. Mary Jane Hodges Deacon Formation Program......................................................................64 Leadership Program for Musicians .........................................no report filed Secretary of Convention Liturgy and Music, Commission on.........................................no report filed The Rev. Cindy Fribourgh Ministry, Commission on...........................................................................65 Registrar Church Development and Extension Mrs. Beth Matthews Church Architecture & Allied Arts, Commission on.................no report filed Congregational Development and Church Growth ...................................68 Historiographer Ministry Development .............................................................no report filed Mr. Michael McNeely SeedWork ...............................................................................no report filed Stewardship Development, Division of ...................................no report filed The Convention Roll February 24-25, 2006 General Program Support Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Commission on .......................................69 And Anti-Racism Commission........................................................no report filed November 11, 2006 Constitution and Canons, Commission on................................................70 Historiographer .........................................................................................74 Canonically Resident Clergy – Parochial and Non-Parochial Safeguarding God’s Children....................................................................74 Entitled to vote in the 134th Convention Diocesan Outreach (* indicates Presence at Convention, February 24-25, 2006) Jubilee Ministry .........................................................................................75 (~ indicates Presence at the Electing Convention, November 11, 2006) Keller Fund for Mission .............................................................................76 Listed by Date of Canonical Residence St. Francis House Board of Trustees........................................................76 *~The Rt. Rev. Larry E. Maze, 12th Bishop of Arkansas – 6/11/1994 Ministry Beyond the Diocese Companion Diocese Committee .............................................no report filed The Reverends Episcopal Relief & Development...............................................................77 National Cathedral Association...............................................no report filed Rufus Josephus Womble, Retired – 11/1/1958 All Saint’s School ....................................................................no report filed *~Lawson M. Anderson, Retired – 1/18/1965 University of the South..............................................................................78 *John Clib Barton, Retired – 1/18/1965 William McKinley Duncan-O’Neal, Retired – 5/1/1966 A. William Krumbach, Retired – 6/27/1966 *~Gary Dee McConnell, Trinity Church, Searcy – 6/17/1970 ~Phillip Riley Plunkett, Retired – 6/17/1970 Reese Mart Hutcheson, Chaplain, US Army – 6/14/1971 *~Rhea Ewing Jackson, St. Francis’, Heber Springs – 5/8/1972 Festus Hilliard Powell, Non-Parochial – 5/27/1972 *~James Rayford McLean, Holy Trinity, Hot Springs Village – 9/1/1972 *~Peggy Bosmyer, St. Margaret’s, Little Rock – 8/24/1974 Irvin Dale West (Deacon), Non-Parochial – 11/7/1974 *~Noland Patrick Murray, Retired – 5/7/1977 Joel Wilson Pugh, Retired – 1/6/1978 ~Allen Layfield Bates, St. Andrew’s, Rogers – 6/10/1978 Boyd Curtis Latimer, Retired – 6/21/1978 *~George Barrow Hart, St. Mark’s, Crossett – 1/9/1979 ~Arnold Withrow Hearn, Retired – 3/30/1979 Cham Canon, Retired – 12/9/1979 Harold Somerset Strickland, Retired – 4/21/1981 Donald Edward Baustian, Retired – 6/1/1981 *~Christoph Keller, III, Non-Parochial – 6/28/1982 Charles Glenn Kettlewell, Non-Parochial – 11/15/1983 Thomas Andrew Sifford, Retired – 2/6/1986 Edwin Kerr Sisk, Retired – 4/30/1986 *~Michael Kevin Robinson, Trinity Church, Van Buren – 6/28/1986 1 *~Patricia Joyce Hardy (Deacon), Archdeacon for Ministry Formation; Christ *Scott Charles Lee, Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock – 6/25/2000 (to Connecticut Church, Little Rock – 8/15/1989 9/1) James H. Lupton, Jr., Retired – 10/1/1989 ~Curtis Carl Jones (Deacon), St. Luke’s, North Little Rock – 10/28/2000 John R. Edwards, Jr., Retired – 12/28/1989 *~Cynthia Kaye Fribourgh (Deacon), St. Margaret’s, Little Rock – 10/28/2000 John J. (Jack) McDermott (Deacon), Retired – 2/1/1990 *~Gary C. Baird (Deacon), Grace Church, Siloam Springs – 10/28/2000 Miriam Wall (Peggy) Hays, Retired – 6/23/1990 *~Pamela Sturch Morgan, St. Andrew’s, Mountain Home – 2/24/2001 *~Dennis Gail Campbell, Canon for Congregational Development – 6/23/1990 *~Joanna Johnson Seibert (Deacon), St. Margaret’s, Little Rock – 4/28/2001 *~Robert E. Allen, St. Mary’s, El Dorado – 6/1/1991 *~Bruce John Limozaine (Transitional Deacon), St. Stephen’s, Jacksonville – Ann W. Schmidt (Deacon), Retired – 11/25/1991 4/28/2001 *~Lowell Edward Grisham, St. Paul’s, Fayetteville – 1/20/1992 *~John Scott Trotter, Holy Cross, West Memphis – 10/23/2001 *~Larry R. Benfield, Christ Church, Little Rock – 4/26/1992 Nelda Lyons McDermott (Deacon), Non-Parochial – 11/3/2001 George William Brumbaugh, Retired – 7/14/1992 *~Cheryl Lynn Clark, Grace Church, Pine Bluff – 12/22/2001 ~Dennis Lee Serdahl, Retired – 8/15/1992 *Gar R. Demo, St. Peter’s, Conway – 2/20/2002 (to Kansas 6/1/06) *~Merry Helen Hedges (Deacon), Retired – 1/22/1993 *Kelly M. Demo, Canon for Youth Ministries – 2/20/2002 William P. Scheel, Retired – 3/24/1993 *~Belinda Snyder, Calvary, Osceola – 3/15/2002 *~Jo Ann Dolezal Barker, St. Mark’s, Jonesboro – 7/9/1994 ~Tommy Joe Bradshaw (Deacon) – St. Francis’, Heber Springs – 4/27/2002 Christiana Kay Fitch (Deacon), Retired – 2/23/1995 *~Walter Van Zandt Windsor, Trinity Church – 8/1/2002 Brenda Kroll (Deacon), Non-Parochial – 2/27/1995 *~Edwin Francis Wills, St. Michael’s, Little Rock – 8/31/2002 ~Susan Strauss Payne, Christ Church, Little Rock – 6/15/1995 *~Samuel Charles Loudenslager (Deacon), St. Michael’s, Little Rock – *~Edgar Henry (Hap) Hoffman, St. Alban’s, Stuttgart – 6/15/1995 11/23/2002 C. Douglas Simmons, Retired – 6/26/1995 ~Mary Craig Caruthers, Christ Church, Little Rock – 12/21/2002 *~William Seth Adams, Non-Parochial – 12/15/1995 *~John Roscoe Proffitt, St. Mark’s, Little Rock – 2/6/2003 *~Henry Lee Hudson, Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock – 2/1/1996 *~Keith Alan Gentry, St. Luke’s, North Little Rock – 6/8/2003 *William Vandever Martin, Non-Parochial – 6/15/1996 (to Colorado 9/1/06) *~Helen Hargreaves (Deacon), All Saints’, Russellvile – 6/21/2003 ~John Robinson Childress, Jr., Non-Parochial – 12/9/1996 *~Joy Prater (Deacon),