Deployment Report (August 2025)
Churches seeking full or part-time clergy
- Redeemer, Brookhaven
- Calvary, Cleveland
- St. James’, Jackson
- St. Paul’s, Meridian
- Trinity, Natchez
- St. Peter’s, Oxford
- 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
- Church of the Good Shepherd, Terry
- Holy Trinity, Vicksburg
- Church of the Nativity, Water Valley
Available Chaplaincy
- Canterbury: Mississippi State University
Questions about deployment should be directed to The Rev. Canon Gary Meade, Canon to the Ordinary, gmeade@dioms.org; 601-948-5954.
Faithful Departed (August 2025)
Please submit Faithful Departed notices to your church for submission
- Donald Franklin Pringle, 88, communicant of St. Paul’s, Meridian, died April 15, 2025.
- Dorothy Liles Gibson, 89, communicant of St. James’, Jackson, died on July 9, 2025.
- Emmett Joseph Chassaniol, Jr., 86, communicant of Nativity, Greenwood, died July 26, 2025.
- Jeanne Marie Pate, 74, communicant of All Saints’, Tupelo, died August 3, 2025.
- The Rev. Dr. Helen Whitener Tester, 75, having served as vicar of Holy Trinity, Crystal Springs (2002-2006) and rector of Mediator, Meridian (1/1/2007-5/1/2015), before transferring to the Diocese of Western North Carolina, died August 3, 2025. Helen was preceded in death by her husband, The Rev. Dr. Charles K. Floyd, Jr., former Canon to the Ordinary.
- Page Whites, 62, communicant of Nativity, Greenwood, died August 3, 2025.
- David Dunlap Hamilton, 69, communicant of St. Paul’s, Meridian, died August 17, 2025.
- Deborah “DJ” Ritterbush Wells, 72, communicant of St. Paul’s, Meridian, died August 18, 2025.
- John “Jack” Armistead Conway, 81, communicant of St. Philip’s, Jackson, died August 19, 2025.
