Commissioners and visitors will
gather in Franklin September 24-25
Synod's Executive/Transition Committee met at the
Synod office August 8 and 9 to finalize plans for the annual meeting,
which is to be held this year at First Presbyterian Church in Franklin,
Tennessee.
The meeting will begin with worship at 1:00 p.m.
on September 24, preceded by box lunches provided in the registration
area of the fellowship hall. The worship times for the meeting are being
planned by Moderator Arthur Lodge. Dr. Laura Mendenhall president of
Columbia Theological Seminary, will preach the sermon.
The Moderator-elect Elder Mamie Jones of First
Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama, will be installed and the
nominating committee will present names for other offices, including
a vice moderator and a stated clerk. Former Stated Clerk Al Freundt
will be honored.
New commissioners will be recognized during the
meeting. The twenty-four commissioners are assigned to the three committees
of the Synod: Communications, Presbytery Ministry Partnerships, and
Living Waters for the World.
A 2002 budget recommendation will be included in
the report of the Executive/Transition Committee. The expenditures will
reflect program and mission priorities and commissioners will be voting
on more than just a bottom line figure when they adopt the budget.
The synod committees will meet at the end of the
afternoon session and reports from each committee will be heard by the
Synod.
Following a six o'clock dinner at the church, a
musical program will be presented.
Presentations from mission program grant recipients
and the agencies and institutions of the Synod will be heard in both
the Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning plenary sessions.
Laura Mendenhall
Moderator-elect Mamie Jones and
Moderator Arthur Lodge
Members of the Executive/Transition Committee who
met at the Synod office on August 8 and 9, from left to right, seated:
Carolyn Jordan, Rich Fifield, Ray Kramer, Kenneth Dick; from left to
right, standing: John Kimbirl, Sally Baker, David Snellgrove, Reg Parsons,
Mamie Jones and Arthur Lodge. Absent from photo: Gary Bullard and Charles
Van Devener.
The Synod's nominating committee met August 6 to
complete the list of nominations to be presented at the Synod meeting.
From left to right, seated, Dana Waters, Yale Gunn, Flordia Henderson,
chairperson Barbara Halverstadt; standing from left to right: Wesley
Brock, Thomas Bumpas, Eddie Grigsby, Martha Campbell, Robert Harvey.
