Resumed Pastoral Ministry
The Rev. Carroll reentered pastoral ministry as the Associate Pastor and Director of Christian education of the St. Marks Methodist Church in New York City. He transferred to the New York Annual Conference in 1950. In 1955 he transferred back into the Washington Conference and was appointed to Sharp Street Memorial Methodist Church, Baltimore, serving for seven years. Then he was appointed the Superintendent of the Washington District of the Washington Conference.
Following a merger of the Washington and Baltimore conferences, Rev. Carroll became in 1966 the Superintendent of the Washington West District of the new Baltimore Conference. In 1968 he was appointed Pastor of Marvin Memorial Methodist Church, Silver Spring, Maryland. He was elected by his annual conference as a delegate to several General Conferences of The Methodist Church.
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Famous quotes containing the words resumed, pastoral and/or ministry:
“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
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Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
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Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
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