In Mission for Others: - BC Synod

Minutes 2008 Synod ConventionBallots for Synod Council were distributed.R&C0809That the BC Synod in convention memorialise the National Church to review the policiesand guidelines governing the Church Extension and Capital Fund.Recommendation – Action by the convention as SCon08-19.Vice-chair John Boucher assumed the chair.SCon08-20That SCon08-19 be referred to the BC Bishop’s office. Carried.Bishop Gerhard Preibisch resumed the chair.R&C0810That the BC Synod in convention instruct the BC Synod Council to examine therequirement for regional representation on the standing committees of Synod (Bylaw 12,Section 2a), and whether or not we can work more closely with our Anglican sisters andbrothers, and report its findings to the 2010 BC Synod Convention.Recommendation – Action by the convention as SCon08-21.SCon08-22 That R&C0810 be amended in the following way: “That the BC Synod inconvention instruct the BC Synod Council to examine the requirement forregional representation and strive for gender equality on the standingcommittees of Synod (Bylaw 12, Section 2a), and whether or not we canwork more closely with our Anglican sisters and brothers, and report itsfindings to the 2010 BC Synod Convention.”SCon08-21 Carried.The Chair ruled the amending motion, Scon08-22, out of order.The convention Chaplain led in prayer. Ballot for Synod Council was distributed and the nominees wereintroduced.Youth Presentation‘I am a church’ was the theme of the youth’s presentation giving us different views of churches andending by asking which church we would like to belong to!Vice-chair John Boucher assumed the chair.Committee of Reference and Counsel continued.R&C0811That the B.C. Synod in convention memorialise the National Church to allow individualcongregations to apply for lottery funds in order to assist the congregations with theirindividual projects.Recommendation – Action by the convention as SCon08-23. Defeated.R&C0812That the B.C. Synod in convention memorialise the National Church to create the office ofTheologian in Residence for the conventions of the church, engaging the services of one ormore theologians drawn from the seminaries of the ELCIC, to speak to the convention andto serve as theological consultants for the business of the convention.Recommendation – Action by the convention as SCon08-24. Carried.British Columbia Synod Section C / 13