Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1995 - Rparchives.org

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH [25Since the committee has the plan of sending delegates every other yearto denominations with which we have fraternal relations, we will be sendingdelegates only to the Korean Association of Presbyterian Churches, thePresbyterian Church in America, and the Free Church of Scotland annualmeetings. Since the Orthodox Presbyterian Church General Assembly willmeet at Geneva College, we plan to send a delegate to their meeting thisyear.We appreciate the mutual exchange of delegates as they help us tobecome acquainted with the actions of denominations with which we havefraternal relations.Recommendations:I. That, since Christopher Wright has completed two terms, Terence Dowds,Gordon Keddie and David Weir be nominated for the class of 1998, andJim Kern, Andrew Schep and John White be nominated for the class of1999.2. That Synod approve the Reformed Church in the U.S. to become amember of NAPARC.3. That Synod ask teaching and ruling elders who are traveling to Australia,Cyprus, Ireland, Japan and Scotland to inform this committee in orderthat they might be appointed to represent our denomination.Respectfully submitted,Andrew Schep, Chairman.A special motion was adopted: that Synod ask the Moderatorand Clerk to write a letter of apology to the student employee forthe offense given by some of our brothers.The following special motion was adopted in view of the comingretirement of Dr. William Russell from the professorship of ChurchHistory at RPTS: That the Moderator write a letter of appreciationto Dr. Russell on behalf of Synod and that at Synod expense, theModerator of Synod and his wife take Dr. Russell and his wife out todinner.The parliamentarians brought two motions on rulings for tievotes. Item 1 was lost. Item 2 was adopted by more than a twothirdsvote. The recommendations are as follows:REPORT OF THE PARLIAMENTARIANS1. (Defeated) We recommend that the following change in the Book ofDiscipline be sent down in overture:We propose a new #7 in Chapter 8:In the tabulation by Synod of the votes of Sessions on anoverture, the Sessions reporting a tie vote are not to becounted in the total number of Sessions.2. We recommend that the following changes in the Directory forChurch Government be approved