Today, delegates approved\u00a0Petition 60489 which says, “[O]ffering the means of grace to the world, the resident bishop of an annual conference in which the deacon is appointed may authorize the deacon to preside at the celebration of the sacraments.”<\/p>\n
In simpler terms, the passing of this petition allows deacons to directly\u00a0request authority to celebrate over the communion table themselves. To this date, deacons have had to make this request through\u00a0an elder appointed alongside them\u00a0or a district superintendent.<\/p>\n
DJ del Rosario spoke with deacon Rev. Kay Barckley and certified deacon candidate Rachel Neer to get their perspective on the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, delegates approved\u00a0Petition 60489 which says, “[O]ffering the means of grace to the world, the resident bishop of an annual conference in which the deacon is appointed may authorize the deacon to preside at the celebration of the sacraments.” In simpler terms, the passing of this petition allows deacons to directly\u00a0request authority to celebrate over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":12961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[449,5,443],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-conference","8":"category-pnw-delegation","9":"category-video","10":"post_format-post-format-video"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/maxresdefault-16.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-3mx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12959,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions\/12959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}