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The 23rd Annual Assembly of the New England Synod

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, Mass.

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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

RESOLUTIONS

SERMONS (both these sermons are available on DVD of synod assembly highlights):

Pr. Elaine Hewes, School of Lay Ministry Graduation, June 3

Part 1: Watch Video

Part 2: Watch Video

Part 3: Watch Video

Text version

Bishop Margaret G. Payne, Festive Eucharist / Ordination, June 4

Part 1: Watch Video

Part 2: Watch Video

Text version

DAILY ASSEMBLY NEWSLETTERS

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.

AGENDA

WORKSHOPS

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.