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JULY 2022
The Christian Recorder
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19th District Mid-Year Conference – Bishop Brailsford at Work The arrival of Bishop Ronnie Elijah Brailsford, Sr. to the 19th Episcopal District on 11 April 2022 was not to be a time of holiday. He wasted no time arriving for work at the District Head Office at 20 Phillips Street in Johannesburg. He met in person various auxiliary and component leaders, and he visited various properties of the church, including our educational institutions, the R.R. Wright Theological Seminary (R.R. Wright), and Wilberforce Community College (W.C.C.). On Saturday, 23 April 2022, members of the District travelled back home after closing a successful MidYear Conference prepared for 600 attendees.
This Mid-Year Conference was the first in-person meeting of the District since the 2019 series of annual conferences and planning meeting in December 2019. It took close to two and a half years for members of the 19th to be in fellowship once again to do God’s business under the leadership of Bishop Brailsford, Sr.
Thursday, 21 April, from around 2 p.m., many people were begging to arrive at the Quest Conference Estate in Vanderbijlpark, being met by officials checking temperature, sanitising hands, ensuring masks are on, and completing the registration. The registration desk was ready with personalised registration tags. The reception hall was alive with people standing in small groups, chatting, greeting each other with excitement, yet reminiscing about many who were not there because they had since passed on. Clearly, the three days were not enough to cover how people missed each other’s fellowship and worship. ...continued on p38
