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On the second ballot, Krober received 107 votes (out of 235 cast), still short of the 51 percent (118 in this case) required for election. On the third ballot, Krober received 136 votes (out of 230 cast) — well above the 116 needed.

Two of the three nominated women received significant numbers of votes on the first and second ballots. Brenda Young received 56 and 42 votes respectively; Delia Neusch-Olver, 56 and 30. Also on the second ballot, Stephen Fitch received 30 votes, and Arthur Brown, 8. No other vote counts were reported for the second ballot.

Reported vote counts for the first ballot: Haskins (170), James (134), Snyder (130), Krober (114), Nuesch-Olver (56), Young (56), Fitch (50), David Kendall (37), Brown (34), Jesse Carvalho (30), Matthew Thomas (29) and Dennis Wayman (28). Others nominated, but receiving less than four votes: Linda Adams, Robert Bedford, Forest Bush, David Harvey, Samuel Tinsley and Charles White.

The 18 men and women entered into nomination for bishop at GC 2003 were placed on the ballot through a new process that came out of GC 1999. [Click here to read Paragraph A/590 from the 1999 Book of Discipline.] It was decided that advance receipt of the nominees' names (and general information about them) would allow delegates to familiarize themselves with each prospective bishop — impossible with nominations taken from the floor, as they were at GC 1999. The foreknowledge would then allow delegates time for prayer prior to the actual voting process.

A Silver Celebration for WMI

Women's Ministries International (WMI) gathered together at GC 2003 to celebrate the silver anniversary of its general sessions. Also at the conference, the ministry sponsored a welcoming tea for all ladies, providing a golden (silver!) opportunity for informal sharing and rejoicing over all the Lord has accomplished in and through this ministry to and for women the world over during the past 50 years.

Newly elected WMI officers (L-R): Helene Kalhstorf (VP, ministries), Yvonne Goode (VP, global missions), Alice Matthewson (international promoter), Gretchen McLaughlin (president) and Gwen Poteat (VP, programming). Not pictured: Lucy Grullon (secretary) and Linda Eccles (treasurer).

Pearl Madlala, WMI president for South Africa, sells homemade beaded jewelry.

SPU professor Miriam Adeney addresses the WMI luncheon.

WMI; Parish Nursing, Inc. and clergy women joined in celebrating half a century of ministering to women — in neighborhoods at home and abroad.

Betty Stennes — a.k.a. "Lena" — presents the new WMI program booklet, Radiance.