Function
The Circuit is the main functional unit of Methodism, in that a large number of activities are organised at this level. For example, Ministers are appointed firstly to the Circuit and secondly to the pastoral care of specific churches. They are paid by the Circuit. Preaching appointments for both Ministers and Local Preachers are organised by the Circuit and advertised on a Circuit Plan issued every 3 months by the Superintendent Minister.
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“Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how to be men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
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