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The General Secretary's Accountability Report for the 2024 GC44 Annual MeetingTopics include:2024 Annual Strategic PlanFinancial PlanningCentennial CelebrationThen Let Us Sing!300 Bloor StreetEmergent...
That the bounds of the 44th General Council annual meeting 2024 be the virtual meeting room and the telephone connections to that meeting space.
The General Secretary recommends that the 44th General Council, 2024...
With the enactment of “Remit 4: Funding a New Model”, it was intended that all pastoral charges would share in funding both regional and denominational governance work in a proportional and transparent way.
The 44th General Council 2022 authorized a category 3 remit, to amend the Basis of Union of The Manual of The United Church of Canada. It required a majority vote of regional councils and communities of faith.
The Executive of the 42nd General Council received the report calling for a process to review the church’s policy on Palestine and Israel in light of the changing context and partner calls for solidarity.
The principles of UNDRIP are resonant in the National Indigenous Church’s proposal to General Council 44 on creating a new national Indigenous organization, and in the remit supporting this. A significant investment of time has been made in preparing materials to support the remit as a commitment to UNDRIP.
We believe God/Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit is calling the church to recognize the lifelong call to ministry and faithful service in response to that call of many current Designated Lay Ministers. While their practice of ministry is indistinguishable from that of ordered ministers in the eyes of many church members, DLMs have been frustrated, hurt and disappointed at continuing to be limited to appointments and not eligible for call, paid at lower minimum salary schedule than ordered ministers, and retaining no status as ministry personnel between appointments and in retirement in many regional councils.
The General Secretary's Accountability Report for the 2023 GC44 Annual Meeting.
Rules of order for the GC44 Annual General Meeting.
