Deployment Report (November 2025)
Churches seeking full or part-time clergy
- Redeemer, Biloxi
- Redeemer, Brookhaven
- Calvary, Cleveland
- Ascension, Hattiesburg
- Trinity, Natchez
- St. Paul’s, Meridian
- Resurrection, Starkville
- Holy Trinity, Vicksburg
- Church of the Nativity, Water Valley
Churches seeking supply clergy
- Good Shepherd, Columbus
- Christ Church, Holly Springs
- All Saints, Jackson
- St. Christopher’s, Jackson
- St. Mark’s, Jackson
- St. Matthew’s, Kosciusko
- Calvary, Michigan City
- Church of the Good Shepherd, Terry
- Holy Trinity, Vicksburg
- Church of the Nativity, Water Valley
Available Chaplaincies
- Canterbury: Mississippi State University
- Oxford: Ole Miss
Questions about deployment should be directed to The Rev. Canon Gary Meade, Canon to the Ordinary, gmeade@dioms.org; 601-948-5954.
Faithful Departed (November 2025)
Please submit Faithful Departed notices to your church for submission
- The Right Rev. Joseph (Joe) Goodwin Burnett, 77, retired bishop of Nebraska, served St. John’s, Pascagoula (curate); St. James’, Jackson; Creator, Clinton; St. Peter’s, Gulfport; Trinity, Hattiesburg, as professor of homiletics at the School of Theology at Sewanee; and the 10th Bishop of Nebraska (2003-2011). Following his resignation as bishop diocesan, he served as Assistant Bishop of Maryland (2011-2013); then in parish ministry at St. Columba’s, Washington, DC; St. Paul’s, Meridian; All Saints’, Tupelo; and Emmanuel, Rapid City, SD. Bp. Joe Burnett, father of the Rev. Jody Burnett, died on November 14, 2025 in Atlanta.
- Martha “Rooney” Maharrey, 89, communicant of All Saints’, Tupelo, died November 15, 2025.
- The Rev. Michael Emerson “Corky” Carlisle, 78, having served St. Mary’s, Enterprise; St. Paul’s, Meridian (Curate); Trinity, Newton; and churches in Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia, and Texas; as Director of Rondo Retreat Center, and as Principal of St. Philip’s Theological College, died November 26, 2025.
