OUR DELEGATES’ WORKSPACE
A STATEMENT ON IRAQ OUTSIDE THE CONVENTION CENTER
CPC DELEGATION HANGS OUT
CPC’S OWN GERE REIST IS GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE UMC! SEE HIM ON THE BIG SCREEN!
The highlight of today was the presence of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, the first female president of Liberia, also the third United Methodist president of that country! [...]
A lot was accomplished today: election of Judicial Council members and members of the University Senate happened this morning.
Other action included
continued support of Africa University
approval of full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
denial of a request to give the Judicial Council a permanent location
affirmation of continued use of ASL [...]
Sunday at General Conference was just like the other days. Legislative Committees pressed to finish going through petitions. The people in the pew can rest assured that every petition gets several touches in the process, and each one is considered appropriately.
I’ve picked up on a couple things to bring back to the District: SBC21 a [...]
This will be really short. I have the opportunity to SLEEP!!!
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For CPC insiders, you may be interested to know this re the proposed legislation to extend the retirement age of Bishops: The petitions to raise the retirement age have made it through [...]
Today began with worship with African Bishop Machado preaching. His translater was Don Reasoner, son-in-law of Jay and Marj House. Bishop Machado asked, “What happened that the church stopped running hard. The church stopped doing good. The church stopped loving God.” He lifted up the 3 Wesleyan rules as the missing pieces. We need to do [...]
For most of the day, the motivational, inspirational, pep rally opening of General Conference continued. Actually it was amazing to experience how worship and work interwove this morning in such a way that we did not even realize the transition. This was thanks to the creativity of Marcia McFee and Bishop Sharon Brown Christopher. The [...]
This afternoon was spent in a special orientation session for women delegates. It was a primer on what to expect on the floor of the Conference. For the first of many times today, I learned that this is a POLITICAL event!
Other salient points of the day:
Delegates can be divided into two camps: those who see [...]
I’m happy to report that travel to General Conference proceeded without a hitch.
Catching up on Earth Day news during the flight, I wondered about the ginormous carbon footprint to be created by this event! It is imponderable and includes miles flown, shuttles taken, rooms air conditioned, workers showing up, food grown, transported, prepared, and consumed.
This is the 38th [...]
Journey to General Conference 2008, Ft. Worth, Texas
Tuesday, April 22, is Travel Day. That, in itself is an optimistic beginning the way air travel has been lately. May it be so that all Travel be accomplished on this, its day!
My mom was surprised that there are only 1000 delegates to General Conference. It is, indeed, [...]
