2010 Synod Assembly
The 23rd Annual Assembly of the New England Synod, ELCA, has closed after a wonderful three-day experience (June 3-5. 2010). Next year's assembly will be June 3-5, 2011 (Friday-Sunday), at the Mass. Mutual Center, Springfield, MA.
Click here for photos from Synod Assembly 2010
Credentials Report
Total attendance: 571 (as of 06/05/10)
481 Voters
Clergy (209)
Ordained ministers under call – 152
Non-parish clergy – 12
Voting retired clergy – 45
Lay (272)
Lay voters chosen by congregations – 253
Lay officers of the synod – 6
Rostered lay leaders – 14
90 Non-Voters
Visitors and Guests – 66
Clergy on leave from call – 1
Assembly staff – 21
Interns – 2
Elections
2011 ELCA Churchwide Assembly Delegates
Resolutions
Sermons
Pr. Elaine Hewes, School of Lay Ministry Graduation, June 3rd
Part 1: Watch Video
Part 2: Watch Video
Part 3: Watch Video Text Version (June 3rd)
Bishop Margaret G. Payne, Festive Eucharist / Ordination, June 4
Part 1: Watch Video
Part 2: Watch Video Text Version (June 4th)
Newsletters
Thursday, June 3rd Friday, June 4th Saturday, June 5th
FAITH KITCHEN Watch Video. This program of Faith Lutheran Church, Cambridge, Mass., was one of three servant ministry projects highlighted in the ELCA video being shown this year at all synod assemblies. Did you notice the framed copy of da Vinci's "The Last Supper" on the wall?
GREETING from Kelly A. Fryer (A Renewal Enterprise). Watch Video.
WELCOME to Voting Members from Bishop Margaret G. Payne. Watch Video.
Our keynoter this year was The Rev. Susan R. Briehl, theologian, author and hymn writer, who has served in parish, campus amd retreat center settings. Briehl is project associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and Formation of People in Faith (www.practicingourfaith.org), whose purpose is to develop resources to help contemporary people live in the Christian faith with vitality and integrity in changing times. She is also Distinguished Professor of the Art of Ministry at Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. A Lutheran pastor for 25 years, she also has served as director of Holden Village, campus pastor at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., and pastor of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Bellingham, Wash. Her writings include “Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People”(with Dorothy Bass); “Come, Lord Jesus:Devotions for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany”; “Holden Prayer around the Cross: A Guide to the Liturgy” (with Tom Witt); “Turn My Heart: A Sacred Journey from Brokenness to Healing” (with Marty Haugen), and several liturgical and hymn texts.
2009 NES Congregation Statistics from ELCA
2010 Reports 2010 Assembly Rules Synod Constitution Compensation Guidelines Resolutions including Kairos document Audit and Budget Reports LSS Annual Report 2009
