Ministries
Sub-Committees
Accreditation Sub-Committee
Sub-Committee Members
Convener: Revd Ken
Chippindale
Secretary: Revd
Christine Craven
Revd Keith Argyle, Mrs
Judith Booth, Revd Gwen Collins,
Revd Howard Sharp, Mrs
Sheila Telfer, Revd Tony Wilkinson
1. Roll of Ministers
Admissions to the
Roll
(from 1st April 2004 to
31st March 2005)
By Ordination
John Bradbury, Ann Bray,
Peter Blackband,
Elaine Brown, Gordon
Brown, Ruth Browning,
David Coaker, Matthew
Connell, Clare Davison,
Sheena Dickson, Ruth
Dillon, Mark Houghton,
Ann Hufton, Irene John,
Margaret Johnson,
Heather Kent, Martin
Knight, Janet Llewellyn,
Jan Maxwell, Jenny
Morgan, Sarah Moore,
Keith Morrison, Susan
Powell, Vivien Randles,
Alan Seymour, Alison
Toplas, Marion Tugwood,
Stuart Turner, Barry
Welch, Mark Woodhouse,
Ann Woodhurst, Ernest Yu,
Jenny Yule.
Deletions from the
Roll
(from 1st April 2004 to
31st March 2005)
by transfer to other
Churches
Philip Burroughs, (to the
Church of Scotland),
Jacqueline Petrie (to the
Church of Scotland),
Peter Phillips (to the
Church of Scotland),
Richard Barry West (to
the Church of Scotland),
Chris Vermeulen (to the
Church of Scotland),
Klaus Gutwein (to the
Evangelische Kirche),
Murray Rae (to New
Zealand), Tamas and Marta Sugar (to the Hungarian Reformed Church.
by resignation
Martin Knight, Anthony
Kevin Waters,
John Smith Wilkinson,
Sally Ann Wills
2. Assembly
Accredited Lay Preachers
(The following have
successfully completed their course of study and have received Assembly
Accreditation between 1st April 2004 to 31st March 2005)
Northern Synod: Peter
Smith, Mandi Young
North-Western Synod:
Robert Brown, Hugh Williams, Linda Potter
East Midlands Synod:
Margaret Childs, Beverley Kean, Nancy Marshall, Grenville Beck, Charles Jolly
West Midlands Synod:
Rosalind Selby
Eastern Synod: Faith
Paulding, Gillian Taylor,
Katrina Hackett, Ronald
Wade
South Western Synod:
Catherine Harris,
Helen Perring, Valerie
Elms, Michelle Pickering
Wessex Synod: Linda
Jackson Thelma Roberts,
Lynne Upsdell
Thames North Synod:
Christine Hall, Alan Myers, Graham Tarn, Elizabeth Haynes, Barbara Fordyce
Southern Synod: Michael
Donelly, Margaret Grew, Jean Hensman, Alice Frimpong, Hannah Bestente
Maintenance of the Ministry
Sub-Committee
Resolution 32
Ill-health retirement
General Assembly
a) consents to the
use of Rule 44 of the United Reformed Church Ministers’ Pension Fund (the
Scheme) such that any member of the Scheme who in future retires on ill-health
grounds shall be paid a pension based on their full prospective years of
pensionable service up to their normal retirement date; and
b) requests that
comparable grants are paid to those who have retired on ill-health grounds since
January 2004.
Ill-health retirement
1.1 The current
provisions in the event that a member retires before normal pension age on
account of incapacity to undertake the duties
of a stipendiary minister or CRCW
due to ill-health are set out in Rule 20 of the United Reformed Church
Ministers’ Pension Fund (the Scheme).
1.2 When a member retires
early on grounds of ill-health the Scheme provides an early retirement pension.
The value of this is dependent on the completed years of service. However, if
the actual service is less than twenty years then a pension is provided based on
the lower of
i) twenty years, and
ii) the prospective
service to normal retirement date.
1.3 Examples:
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A member who
commenced service at age 30 and retires at
age 45 on grounds of ill-health
will receive a pension based on twenty years pensionable service.
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A member who
commenced service at age 30 and retires at age 60 on grounds of ill-health
will receive a pension based on thirty years pensionable service.
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A member who
commenced service at age 50 and retires at age 55 on grounds of ill-health
will receive a pension based on fifteen years pensionable service.
1.4 All these payments
are made out of the United Reformed Church Ministers’ Pension Fund.
1.5 The Retired
Ministers’ Aid Fund is a separate restricted fund of the United Reformed Church
available for the support of retired ministers. In recent years it has mainly
been used, on a discretionary basis, to make grants to augment the pensions of
ministers retiring early on grounds of ill-health. Pensions paid by the Scheme
have been supplemented by grants paid from the RMAF up to the level that would
have been payable based on full prospective service to the normal retirement
age. Although these grants have been discretionary, over many years most if not
all ministers retiring on ill-health grounds have had their pensions augmented
in this way.
1.6 Late in 2003, it
became clear that the RMAF was not in a position to provide further grants of
this sort for new cases in the future. However, if no action had been taken,
this would have left a significant inconsistency between the way Scheme members
had been treated in the past and the way they would be treated in the future.
1.7 Furthermore, the
Anglican, Baptist and Methodist pension schemes all allow for prospective
service when calculating early retirement pensions for those retiring on
ill-health grounds.
1.8 Therefore, we
recommend the change of policy set out in the resolution so that the Pension
Fund can be used to augment these pensions.
1.9 If this resolution is
passed by Assembly, then the Pension Trustee will use the discretion provided by
Rule 44 of the Scheme to augment the pension of anyone retiring on grounds of
ill-health from Assembly 2005 until the date when the rules of the Scheme are
amended to effect this change in policy. It is intended to bring to Assembly
2006 a resolution that will propose the changes to the wording of the Trust
Deed, which will implement this change.
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