Sunday, May 1, 2005
Mt. Sinai United Church of Christ
Registration and Coffee Begin at 2:00 PM
Dear Sister or Brother of Faith:
Please receive this missive as the Call To The Spring 2005 Meeting of the Suffolk Association of the United Church of Christ.
The meeting will be Sunday, May 1, 2005, at the Mt. Sinai United Church of Christ, 160 North Country Road, Mt. Sinai, New York.
Registration and Coffee begin at 2:00 PM. The afternoon will consist of Workshops beginning at 2:30 PM , the normal business meeting in which we will receive two proposals to amend the Suffolk Association Constitution and By-Law, and closing Worship. The Constitutional Changes are linked below.
The theme of the afternoon will be found in the exciting workshops. As of this writing they are entitled: "It's Sunday Morning and Half the Choir Is Out With the Flu", "Ethics in Business", "Faith Formation", "Investing Church Money", "and "Turning Visitors into Members".
Adjournment will immediately follow the benediction of Closing Worship.
Yours in Christ Jesus,
Robert N. Terry
Registrar
PS Please remember the due date for reports to be included in the Annual Reports Booklet is APRIL 18 th . Please have them to me be that date.
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Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Committee for Program and Mission
"As of May 1, 2005 , the Steward and Spiritual Life Committees shall be replaced by The Committee for Program and Mission.
This Committee will plan programs for the Fall and Spring Meetings of the Suffolk Association, plus any other programs or activities as requested by the Association Council.
The Committee will also be responsible for recommending mission and stewardship priorities, and will recommend funding to be voted on at the Spring Meeting of the Association.
Persons who have unexpired terms on the Stewardship and Spiritual Life Committees will be given the option of finished out their terms on the committee for Program and Mission . As a result, this committee may have more than six members for its first two years of existence. After that, this Committee will consist of six persons expected for a term of two years on a staggered basis. No member shall serve more than two consecutive terms."
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Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Interim Ministers as Affiliate Members
In an effort to include interim ministers officially, the Church and Ministry Committee recommends the following change that would include interim ministers on the recommendation of the Committee and vote of the Association. They would be considered "Affiliate Members" with the rights and restrictions in Numbers 4, Point b.
Page 3 Section 4.b currently reads
4. HONORARY AND AFFILIATED MEMBERS
b. ministers of other denominations who wish to retain their present denominational standing and who have become pastors of a local church of the United Church of Christ, or of yoked charges or federated churches affiliated with the United Church of Christ shall be enrolled as affiliate ministerial members of the Association for the duration of these pastorates and during that period may have the rights and privileges of such membership except that they shall have no vote on matters affecting the standing of ministers or local churches. They shall not be elected as officer of the Association or Conference or General Synod, nor be a delegate to General Synod.
ADD THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE as Point 4.c
4. c
Interim ministers, if not having standing with the Association, shall be considered Affiliate Members of the Association for the duration of their interim pastorate upon vote of the Church and Ministry Committee.
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