The complete summary can be downloaded here. 

 

SOME QUICK FACTS

 

Date: May 30-31

Location: Lenoir-Rhyne University

Theme: FORWARD TOGETHER. In Christ. In Community.

Attendance: 497 people, including: 179 clergy, 10 associates in ministry, 6 diaconal ministers, 242 lay voting members, 15 synod council members, and 45 visitors and special guests

Presiding officers: Bishop Leonard H. Bolick and Vice President Diana Haywood

Secretary: The Rev. Gary Weant

Parliamentarian: David Black

ELCA representative: The Rev. Eric Wester, Assistant to the Presiding Bishop and Director of Federal Chaplaincy Ministries for the ELCA

Theme speaker: The Rev. Marcus Miller, FORWARD TOGETHERinitiative coordinator and former president of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary and former bishop of the Northeast Ohio Synod

Assembly Coordinator: Tammy Jones West, NC Synod Youth and Family Ministry Coordinator

Chaplains: The Rev. Dr. Mary Hinkle Shore, Diaconal Minister Danielle Kosanovich

Assembly pianist: Judy Frye, Grace Lutheran Church, Raleigh

Guest musicians: Handbell choir from Bethphage Lutheran Church, Lincolnton & the Rev-it-Up Band.

Packet assembly congregation: Lutheran Chapel, Gastonia

Offerings: Malaria=$3347.82; World Hunger=$6294.35


   


Bob Shoffner
NC Synod ELCA

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