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Sessional Officers & Committees of General Synod

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Secretaries

Rules of Order & Procedure, Part II, Section 5 a)

On nomination of the General Secretary, the Prolocutor shall appoint from the membership of the General Synod an Honorary Clerical Secretary, an Honorary Assistant Clerical Secretary, an Honorary Lay Secretary and an Honorary Assistant Lay Secretary, who shall assist the General Secretary in keeping minutes of the General Synod.

Name Position & Diocese
The Ven. Cathy Lasky Honorary Clerical Secretary, Fredericton
TBA Honorary Clerical Secretary, Fredericton
Canon Stephen Kohner Honorary Lay Secretary, Quebec
Dr. Danilla Severin Honorary Assistant Lay Secretary, New Westminster

Assessors

Rules of Order & Procedure, Part II, Section 5 b)

The Prolocutor shall appoint two or more Assessors to advise the chairperson in respect to points of order and the Constitution and Canons.

Name Diocese
Canon Clare Burns Toronto
The Ven. Bill Mous Niagara
Greg Tweney Niagara
Isabel Weeks British Columbia

Sessional Committees:

Rules of Order & Procedure, Part II, Section 6

The following sessional committees shall, except where otherwise specified, be appointed from the members of the General Synod by the Council of the General Synod in consultation with the Prolocutor:

Agenda Committee

Rules of Order & Procedure, Part II, Section 6 a)

Agenda Committee – consisting of not more than eight members to be drawn from the members of the General Synod. It shall be the responsibility of the committee to prepare and publish the agenda for each day of the session.

Name Diocese
The Ven. Tanya Phibbs (Chair) Huron
Canon Ian Alexander British Columbia
The Ven. Katherine Bourbonniere Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island
Jody Butler Walker Yukon
Canon Dr. Randall Fairy Kootenay
The Most Rev. Anne Germond Algoma
The Rev. Dr. Iain Luke Saskatoon

Certification of Minutes Committee

Rules of Order & Procedure, Part II, Section 6 b)

Certification of Minutes Committee – consisting of the General Secretary, the Prolocutor or Deputy Prolocutor, the Honorary Clerical and Lay Secretaries, and a member of the Resolutions Committee. It shall be the responsibility of the committee to certify the accuracy of the minutes of the session of the General Synod.

Name Position & Diocese
The Ven. Alan T. Perry General Secretary
The Rev. Dr. Karen Egan or
Judith Moses 		Prolocutor or
Deputy Prolocutor
Elizabeth Sims (crossover member) Resolutions Committee, Brandon
The Ven. Cathy Lasky Honorary Clerical Secretary, Fredericton
The Rev. Andrew Rampton Honorary Assistant Clerical Secretary, Rupert’s Land
Canon Stephen Kohner Honorary Lay Secretary, Quebec
Dr. Danilla Severin Honorary Assistant Lay Secretary, New Westminster

Credentials Committee

Rules of Order & Procedure, Part II, Section 6 c)

Credentials Committee – consisting of the General Secretary, the Prolocutor or Deputy Prolocutor, and one Assessor. It shall be the responsibility of the committee to report to the General Synod on the standing of all persons who claim membership therein, and to advise the chairperson as to a quorum of each Order.

Name Position & Diocese
The Ven. Alan T. Perry General Secretary
The Rev. Dr. Karen Egan or
Judith Moses 		Prolocutor or
Deputy Prolocutor
Canon Clare Burns Assessor, Toronto

Nominating Committee

Rules of Order & Procedure, Part II, Section 6 d)

Nominating Committee – consisting of one bishop, one clerical member and one lay member from each ecclesiastical province. The committee shall be constituted not later than one month prior to the opening of the General Synod, to receive nominations for standing committees and the Council of the General Synod and to supervise the election process.

Name Position & Diocese
British Columbia & Yukon
The Rt. Rev. David Lehmann Bishop, Caledonia
The Rev. Marnie Peterson (Chair) Clergy, New Westminster
Cathy Wozlowski Lay, Territory of the People
Canada
The Rt. Rev. John Watton Bishop, Central Newfoundland
The Ven. Julia Brace Clergy, Eastern Newfoundland & Labrador
Dion Lewis Lay, Montreal
Ontario
The Rt. Rev. Todd Townsend Bishop, Huron
The Ven. Kathryn Otley Clergy, Ottawa
Chris Ambridge Lay, Toronto
Rupert’s Land
The Rt. Rev. Stephen London Bishop, Edmonton
The Ven. Noel Wygiera Clergy, Calgary
Vicki Townson Lay, Athabasca

Resolutions Committee

Rules of Order & Procedure, Part II, Section 6 e)

Resolutions Committee – consisting of up to eight members, one of whom shall be an Assessor, and with at least one bishop, one clerical and one lay member. It shall be the responsibility of the committee to receive resolutions from members of the General Synod and prepare them for submission in accordance with guidelines approved from time to time by the Council of the General Synod.

Name Position & Diocese
The Rt. Rev. Susan Bell (Chair) Bishop, Niagara
David Bell Lay, Fredericton
Andrew Clinkard Lay, Niagara
Jane Hope Lay, New Westminster
The Rev. Roshni Jayawardena Clergy, Toronto
Elizabeth Sims Lay, Brandon
Isabel Weeks Assessor, British Columbia

Expenditures Committee:

Rules of Order & Procedure, Part II, Section 6 f)

Expenditures Committee – consisting of members appointed by the Primate and the Prolocutor in consultation with the chairperson of the Financial Management Committee.   It shall be the responsibility of the committee to implement Rule of Order 15 with respect to spending motions for which sources of funds have not been identified prior to the General Synod session.

Name Position & Diocese
The Rev. Dr. Karen Egan (Chair) Prolocutor and Chair, Financial Management Committee
Andrew Clinkard Niagara
The Ven. willia Mous Assessor, Niagara
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Matthew 10:40-42

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Rewards

40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous, 42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

John 15:12-17

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12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

John 21:15-19

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Jesus and Peter

15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 A second time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.” 19 (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, “Follow me.”

Luke 11:33-36

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The Light of the Body

33 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel basket; rather, one puts it on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but if it is unhealthy, your body is full of darkness. 35 Therefore consider whether the light in you is not darkness. 36 But if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”

Matthew 8:1-4

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Jesus Cleanses a Man

8 When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him, 2 and there was a man with a skin disease who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” 3 He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be made clean!” Immediately his skin disease was cleansed. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”