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TASMANIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES 2005 ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES
AGM05/1 AT THE SALVATION ARMY CITADEL, 16-20 KAY STREET, KINGS MEADOWS, LAUNCESTON, ON SATURDAY MAY 14 AT 10:00 AM, THE TASMANIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES MET FOR ITS ANNUAL MEETING, AND WAS CONSTITUTED WITH WORSHIP LED BY THE PRESIDENT, THE REV’D CANON ROBERT LEGG OAM.
At the beginning of the meeting, the President acknowledged the ownership by the Leterre-mairener people of the land on which the meeting was being held.
AGM05/2 Present were: ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA, DIOCESE OF TASMANIA: The Rt. Rev’d John Harrower OAM (H/C), the Rev’d Alan Bulmer, Mr. Jack Graydon, the Rev’d Val Graydon, the Rev’d Peter Johnson, the Rev’d David le Rossignol, Mr. David Morris, Mrs. Dorothy Morris.
BAPTIST CHURCHES OF TASMANIA: The Rev’d Garry Billing (H/C), Mr. Don Barns, the Rev’d Ian Carmichael, Mr. Graham Clements, Mrs. Dawn Nibbs, the Rev’d Ted Nibbs, Mrs. Marion Sherriff, Mr. Ted Sherriff. CATHOLIC CHURCH, ARCHDIOCESE OF HOBART: The Most Rev’d Adrian Doyle (H/C), Mr. John Barker, Mrs. Pat Barker, Mrs. Marie Butterworth, Sr. Jill Dance SSJ, Mr. Paul Dobber, Dr. Rosemary Dobber, Mr. Tom Garnham, Miss Anne Landers, Mrs. Dorothy Lawes, Ms. Gail O’Brien, Mr. Doug Rutledge, the Rev’d Fr. Terry Southerwood, the Rev’d Fr. Michael Tate, Sr. Elizabeth Vagg PBVM, the Rev’d Fr. Terry Yard.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, TASMANIA REGIONAL MEETING: Dr. Jenni Bond, Rudi Thurmer. THE SALVATION ARMY, TASMANIA DIVISION: Major Allan Daddow.
UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA, PRESBYTERY OF TASMANIA: Pastor Dennis Cousens (H/C), the Rev’d Yono Abadi, the Rev’d Brian Cole, the Rev’d Peter Davey, the Rev’d Meg Evans, Mrs. Marilyn Goninon, the Rev’d Beth Hancock, the Rev’d Rosalind Terry, the Rev’d Peter Weeks.
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS: The Rev’d Canon Robert Legg OAM, (President), the Rev’d J. Allan Thompson (Vice- President), Mrs. Jennifer Roddam (Acting General Secretary).
CO-OPTED MEMBERS: Mr. George Castley, the Rev’d Tim Matton-Johnson, Miss Daphne Mitchell (ACW).
OBSERVERS FROM NON-MEMBER CHURCHES: Mr. Ferdie Kroon (Christian Reformed Churches of Australia, Classis Tasmania), Pastor Richard Schwedes (Lutheran Church of Australia, Victorian District).
GUEST SPEAKER: The Rev’d Professor James Haire (President, National Council of Churches in Australia, Director of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture).
VISITORS: Mrs. Margaret Jones, Mrs. Judith Portos (Wynyard UCA congregation), Ms. Delia Thompson (First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hobart), Mrs. Juanita Miller (ACW), Mr. Don Roddam (Acting Auditor). AGM05/3 Apologies for absence were received from:
ANGLICAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA, DIOCESE OF TASMANIA: The Rev’d James Collins, the Rev’d Rosemary Perrott-Russell, the Rev’d John Teniswood, the Rev’d Dr. Tom Wallace AM.
BAPTIST CHURCHES OF TASMANIA: Dr. Margaret Baikie, Mr. Ben McKinnon.
CATHOLIC CHURCH, ARCHDIOCESE OF HOBART: The Rev’d Fr. Michael Delaney, Mrs. Lynn Priest, Mrs. Eris Smyth, Mr. Martin Stone, Mr. Sean Tiernan.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, TASMANIA REGIONAL MEETING: Ron Martin, Dr. Roslynn Haynes, Valmai McCulloch.
THE SALVATION ARMY: Major Alan Milkins, Major Peter Walker.
UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA, PRESBYTERY OF TASMANIA: The Rev’d Keith Allcock, Mr. Alan Dutton, the Rev’d Ron Manley, Mrs. Anne Molhuysen, Mrs. Barbara Wood.
UNITING ABORIGINAL AND ISLANDER CONGRESS: The Rev’d Grant Finlay, Mr. Wayne Everett.