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| June 25, 2010 |
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Synod Assembly Approves New Policies
The Assembly of the Synod of Alaska-NW met on June 9-11, 2010 at the First Presbyterian Church in Bellevue for their annual meeting. The Assembly voted to make significant policy changes in the way the Synod functions beginning in 2011.
The following items are among those approved:
· Consult with the seven member presbyteries to send two commissioners per presbytery to the Stated Meetings of the Synod. This change simplifies a very complicated representational formula.
· Eliminate the Synod Council so that elected commissioners make all of the decisions. Our current two level decision-making process (Council and Assembly) is too complicated for a Synod of our size, and leaves too many elected commissioners outside of the core decision-making process.
· Allocate resources so that a Presbytery Council, in partnership with another Presbytery Council, can call the Synod 'to Table' to discern together an issue in ministry and mission. New initiatives may arise out of such gatherings. The participating Presbytery Councils endorse and initiate the ministry. Who could be invited to the Table? We might see ecumenical partners, neighbors in ministry, the voiceless, resource people, and people with differing viewpoints.
· Hold a Stated Meeting at least once a year to do the business of the Synod.
· Terminate the Transitional Synod Executive position.
· Create a new position entitled Presbyter to Synod with a three-year term.
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| Sarah Beard
NPS Presbytery
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