Thursday of the First Week of Advent
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
It's time to begin preparing for our 2015 Lower Susquehanna Synod Assembly by electing voting members from your congregation. Below you will find the Official Notice of Assembly, links to a PDF document of Constitutional Amendments and to our website where you will find more information, and a video from Bishop Dunlop about the Assembly. Please continue to check our website and Carings & Sharings for updates.
OFFICIAL NOTICE: CALL OF THE 2015 SYNOD ASSEMBLY
To: The congregations and the rostered leaders of the Lower Susquehanna Synod, ELCA
From: Thomas E. McKee, synod secretary
Re: Call of the 2015 Synod Assembly
This is the official notice that the 2015 Synod Assembly of the Lower Susquehanna Synod, ELCA, will be held Friday, June 5, 2015, to Sunday, June 7, 2015, in Parmer Hall of the Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and the Performing Arts on the Messiah College Campus, Grantham, Pennsylvania.
All rostered leaders rostered in the Lower Susquehanna Synod and a lay male and a lay female elected by each congregation of the Lower Susquehanna Synod constitute the voting members of this assembly. In addition, each congregation with 500 or more baptized members may elect one additional voting member. In selecting voting members all congregations are encouraged to consider electing youth, young adults, and persons of color or of primary language other than English.
Information about the 2015 Synod Assembly including registration materials will be posted on the synod Web site as plans are completed. Hard copies of assembly materials will be mailed only to those requesting to receive information in this manner.
Click here to be redirected to the 2015 Assembly Page on our website where you'll find more information and regular updates.
Click here for the Six-Month Notification of Constitutional Amendments Recommended by Synod Assembly and Synod Council to the 2015 Synod Assembly.
Watch Bishop Dunlop's comments about this year's Synod Assembly here or on our synod YouTube Channel.
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