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204 The North Carolina Annual Conference – 2012 Journal
The Committee wants to express sincere thanks to the Reverend Timothy J. Russell, Director
of Ministerial Relations and Assistant to the Bishop, Mrs. Linda Bourey, the Executive
Assistant to Tim Russell, and Mrs. Peg Aldridge, Pastoral Coach with Passion in Partnership
Coaching Network, for their guidance and assistance.
Rev. Elizabeth Hackney Hood, Chairperson
Sexual Ethics Support Team
The Board of Ordained Ministry was asked at the 1999 Annual Conference to implement
a policy on professional sexual misconduct for the North Carolina Conference. Since this
time the committee was organized and implemented the policy. The present committee is
comprised of the following members: Francis Daniel (Chair), Jeff Severt, Judi Smith, Donna
Thompson, Fred Hight, Sandra Ray and Chanequa Walker-Barnes.
The committee, under the guidance of trained facilitators from the Methodist Home for
Children, trained 17 people from across our annual conference as members of our sexual
ethics response team.
Moral responsibility underlines the importance of our attention to this area of our life
together. The sub-committee invites you to review the Sexual Ethics Policy (pgs. 248-250 of
The Journal 1999). The policy is also available on disk from the Conference Secretary’s Office.
Awareness of and fulfillment of that policy will strengthen our covenant and will offer new
avenues for grace in our lives.
All clergy under Episcopal appointment are required to attend sexual ethics training once a
quadrennium. These mandatory trainings were held across our annual conference in the fall of
2010.
Trained facilitators from the Methodist Home for Children lead the sexual ethics/boundaries
training for the clergy of the North Carolina Annual Conference annually and quadrennially.
A confidential hotline is contracted through Lighthouse Services to report sexual abuse,
harassment or clergy sexual misconduct.
Francis Daniel, Chairperson