NEW ENGLAND SYNOD ASSEMBLY

June 7-9, 2007

DCU Center and Crowne Plaza, downtown Worcester

 

THEME:  STORIES TO TELL

 

TENTATIVE AGENDA (as of May 30, 2007):

 

 

THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 7:

 

11 a.m. Orientation, Crowne Plaza Ampitheatre

11 a.m., Registration begins, DCU Center
 

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 7:

 

1 p.m. Opening Worship (A Story to Tell: Creation), DCU Center

1:30 p.m. Opening of the assembly

            Secretary’s report

            Adoption of the agenda

1:45 p.m.  Report of the ELCA Representative

2:30 pm.  Reference and Counsel

3 p.m. Budget Story (ministry story told in word and picture)

3:20 p.m.  Interlude, song

3:30 p.m.  Compensation Guidelines

3:45 p.m.  Hands of LSS Award

     Recognition and Awards

                 Reception of Faith, Gardner, Mass.

5 p.m.  Meal Blessing. Dinner on your own; food available for purchase at DCU Center

5-7 p.m. Video stories shown (DVDs, PowerPoints) in main hall

 

THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 7:

 

7 p.m. Reference and Counsel, DCU Center

7:50 p.m.  Campus Ministry Centennial Recognition

8-10 p.m.  Receptions: Stories of various ministries – DCU Center, Junior Ballroom

            Lutheran Social Services of New England

Calumet Lutheran Ministries

Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

Campus Ministry

Mission Partners

10 p.m. Compline, Crowne Plaza Ampitheatre

 

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 8:

 

7-8 a.m. Ministry Tables at breakfast at Crowne Plaza Hotel

8:15-8:45 a.m., Worship (A Story to Tell: Divided), DCU Center

9 a.m. Election: Two Synod Council seats: 1) lay male at large, person of color, and

2) lay male from the New York/Vermont Conference or the Maine Conference

9:15 – 10 a.m. Reference and Counsel

10-10:30 a.m. Budget discussion and vote

10:30 a.m.  Interlude

10:45-11:15 a.m.  Reception of Imanuel Indonesian, Newington, NH

11:15 a.m.-12 Noon  Bishop’s Story

 

12 Noon  Lunch – One hour. Ministry meal tables at DCU. Food available for purchase at DCU Center.

 

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 8:

 

1:15 p.m. Opening prayer and Keynote, Bishop Munib Younan, ELCJHL, DCU Center

Workshops – 10 workshops each session, all held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel

Workshop session #1  2:45-3:45 p.m.

            Workshop session #2  4-5 p.m.

 

FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 8:

 

5 p.m.  Dinner, Crowne Plaza Hotel

7:30 p.m.  Festive Eucharist, Trinity Lutheran Church (A Story to Tell: Reconciled)
                Bishop’s reception follows at Trinity

 

SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 9:

 

8:15-8:45 a.m.  Morning Prayer at the DCU Center (A Story to Tell: Sent)

Workshops – 10 each session, all held at the DCU Center

            Workshop session #1  9-10 a.m.

            Workshop session #2  10:15-11:15 a.m.

11:45-1 p.m.  Closing Plenary with Sending Worship

Reference and Counsel

Announcements and Introductions