Archive for the 'Synod 2008' Category
Affinity Classes?
I’ve been thinking a lot about an event that happened at General Synod last week. It’s in relation to the creation of the RCA’s first “affinity classis.” For those of you who are unfamiliar with RCA polity, here’s the quick and dirty run down: a Classis is a regional assembly with the ability […]
Read More..>>My First Synod Paper…
Actually, to be fair, individuals do not present papers to Synod. Commissions present papers to Synod. Inevitably, however, an individual has the responsibility of writing those papers that a commission presents. This year I had the opportunity to write the report on our recommendation for a change in the Book of […]
Read More..>>An Historic Event, corrected…
Let me officially stand corrected. I said that The Rev. Dr. James Seawood will be the first African-American (vice)president of the Reformed Church in America. I was wrong. The first African-American President in the RCA was the Rev. Wilbur Washington, who was elected president in 1988.
If you’re not part of the RCA […]
James Seawood
I promised a picture. This is from the RCA website. James Seawood, and his wife. He will be our vice president in a few hours.
Grace and peace,
`tim
An Historic Event
For the first time ever, the RCA just elected an African American to be vice president. James Seawood will be vice-president by tomorrow night and (barring an unforseen events) will be elected president a year from now.
I will post a picture when I get one. For now, let me know that James is responsible for […]
It’s official!
It’s official. They’ve just announced what we all obviously expected. The Rev. Dr. Carol Bechtel is now officially elected as General Synod president starting tomorrow evening, when she will be installed.
Carol was one of my preaching profs at Western Seminary and a professor whom I have great respect for. She will also […]
Monday At General Synod
General Synod is up and running and, starting today, will be starting to make some major decisions. Until now there has been an immense amount of discussion but little actual business. That will change dramatically over the next 24 hours.
So far, there are couple of resources you may be interested in:
John Ornee’s Presidental Report is […]
General Synod Starts
Well… It’s is officially started. The Rev. John Ornee called the 202nd General Synod of the Reformed Church in America to order during worship last night at Dimnet Chapel. It was hot and the humidity hung around 99%, but worship was beautiful, well planned and the preaching, delivered by the Rev. En Young Kim from […]
Read More..>>Coming Soon: General Synod 2008
The yearly General Synod of the Reformed Church in America (RCA) will be taking place in Holland, MI from June 5th through the 10th and I have the privilege of serving as the facilitator for the Seminarian Seminar again this year. In short, it’s an opportunity to take around 20 seminarian students and walk them […]
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