
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