Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-08
/ BY CASPAR NAMES
star star writer


Methodist Baltimore Annual
Conference at Western Mary
land College.
The changes and reappoint-
ments to the $50 churches In
the conference were made BY
Bishop John Wesley Lord Of
Boston. who presided at the
4-day meeting at the invita-
ton Of Bishop O. Bromley Ok
man Of washington. All APP
pointments are effective today.
Fifteen new appointments
were made in the Washington
west District: 16 in the Wash
ington East District: II in the
Hagerstown District; eight In
the Baltimore East District: 10
In the Baltimore West District,
and 10 in the Baltimore South
District.
The Baltimore Conference.
with its 1851 members. has
churches in Maryland. District
of Columbia and the three
counties Of Berkeley. Morgan
and Jefferson in West Virginia.
The most important shift
came with the appointment Of
DR.. Asbury Smith. who COM
pleted his 6-year term as
superintendent Of the WASH
ington West District, to the
pastorate Of First Methodist
Church, Hyattsville. Nd. and
the selection of that church's
minister, the Rev. Edgar Wells
Beckett as DR.. Smiths success
cor in the superintendency.
Native Of Capital
mr.. Beckett. q native Of
Washington. is Q graduate Of
Central High School. George
Washington University and
Drew University Theological
Seminary. He also has an MA.
degree from Columbia Univer-
sitys
Another significant shift Is
the appointment Of the Rev.
Thomas B. Ehlers to Good
Shepherd Church in Baltimore
from Brightwood Church,
washington, where he served
eight years. The conference is
bringing three downtown con-
gregations together in the
heart Of downtown Baltimore
to form the Good Shepherd
Church. Property has been
bought and plans to erect q
new structure. combined cost
coming to 100000. have beer
made.
Mr.. Ehler viii be succeeded
BY the Rev. Harry L. Bennett
Of the Sparrows Point Md
Church. "A native of Moline
III, Mr.. Bennett Is q graduatt
Of Syracuse University ant
Wesley Theological Seminary
The 33-year- old pastor is mar
ried and has three children.
Students Appointed
Twenty one students .
Wesley Seminary were ap'
pointed to serve small churches
the coming year.
Several noted Washington
area pastors were again namet
to churches they have servet
many years. Or. Clifford h
Richmond returns TO Chev!
Chase Church for his nine
tenth consecutive year.
Next in term Of service q
one church comes the Rev. w
Kenneth Lyons, Is years q
Anacostia Church. followe'
closely by the Rev. Gloyd e. AL
Lis, beginning his fourteenth
year at Potomac Church.
Others appointed to q churcl
for 10 or more years are tn
Revs. Paul H. Groseclose, Coles
vile Church, and Harold +
LAnman, Hughes Church. l
years, and the Revs. Albert !
Shirley, Mount Vernon Plac
Church, Washington: Ralph I
Smith, Petworth Church, an
John r. Esais, jr., Mort
Church. 10 years.
Two ministers. the Rev
Louis p. Chastain and Trag
W. Lloyd, retired today. MI
Chastain, who entered the con
ference in 1922, was at Brook
land Church in 1857 and q
Dumbarton Church. 1855!
Washington. Mr.. Lloyd, a con
ference pastor since 1920, re
tired from the Parkside Church
Baltimore, where he served tn
past five years.
Sixteen men were ordained q
elders and 81 as deacons yester
day by Bishop Lord and the 81
district superintendent. In tn
Methodist Church elders an
deacons are ministerial order
with the former being Ii
higher rank. Most conferer1C
ministers are elders. havin
served as deacons for one {
more years.
New appointments in til
Washington East District, D
Orris G. Robinson. superinter
dent, are as follows:
The Reys. Harold A. Ammonl. Ii
manual Church from Trinity churc
Oakland Church. from panyiIls. =
Stanley r Bice. Pekkins chspeL Ole
Bristol, Nd: Kenneth Boken: Gree
bet Church from Emory unlver3l
School Of Divinity: Asbury smith. VII
Church. Hyattsville.
The Revs.. Walter c. Smith. ~.
Plata Church, from Moyatt Memoir
Church: c Thomas subock, Ma
Church from Trinity Church, Cunnpe
land. Nd; Richard C. johnson. Oh.
tenham Church frem Providence, M
Lawrence L. Brown. shady Side Chur
fTe% g st nass: q!
l'@a Avenue Church. from Danvil
liz: Louis A. Foxwen. Washlnet
Church for the Deaf meetife IN Mou
Vernon Place Church, who will live
Baltimore and serve . deaf ronlres
ton there as well as the one IN Was
inzton; Ira w. Shindle. Prince IRE
eriek from Wards Chapel. Randall
town. Md