NEW! This year . . .
A hard copy of the Bulletin of Reports will be sent only by request. Reports will be available on this web page. Please download and copy what you need. Copies of items to be voted on (budget, ballots, memorials, resolutions, constitutional changes will be supplied at assembly.
Please feel free to contact the synod office if you have questions.
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2010 Budget (approved)
2010 Compensation Standards for Rostered Leaders (approved)
2010 Mission Support Formula (approved)
AUGSBURG FORTRESS
HOFMANN'S CHURCH & RELIGIOUS GOODS
REPORTS TO THE NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SYNOD ASSEMBLY
The following agencies, institutions, and committees have submitted reports to the synod office for inclusion in the Bulletin of Reports in previous years. This year reports will not be printed and mailed prior to the assembly. Please download and print or read the reports online. Current reports are available if they appear printed in blue and underlined.
Report of the Bishop
Report of the Synod Council
Committee on Church Vocations
Committee on Leadership Support
Committee on World Hunger
Global Missions Committee
Glade Run Lutheran Services
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
Lutheran Campus Ministry - IUP
Lutheran Campus Ministry - PIT
Lutheran Campus Ministry - WVU
Lutheran Home at Kane
Lutherlyn
Mid-Atlantic Region 8
ELCA Foundation
Evangelical Lutheran Coalition for Mission in Appalachia (ELCMA)
Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania (LAMPA)
Pennsylvania Lutheran Network
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
VOTING MEMBERS
Unsure of who is allowed to vote at the synod assembly?
Here is the breakdown:
All clergy, diaconal ministers, deaconesses, and associates in ministry on the official roster of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. This includes retired clergy and clergy on leave from call.
Voting members selected and registered by the congregations of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The formula is two lay voting members elected/chosen by each congregation plus additional lay voting members based on the most recent baptized membership as reported on your CONGREGATIONAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2009:
901-1500 - 1 additional voting member
1501-2100 - 2 additional voting members
2101-2700 - 3 additional voting members
2701-3300 - 4 additional voting members
3301-3900 - 5 additional voting members
3901-4500 - 6 additional voting members
Members of the Synod Council
Retired clergy may not be elected as voting members to represent a congregation.
On site registration will take place at the Johnson Center on the west side of the campus at Thiel. Pre-registration is important for your congregation and any visitors. It is possible to register at assembly. However, registration at assembly will cost $175 per person regardless of whether a person is intending to commute or stay at Thiel. Take advantage of the reduced price and register for assembly early. If you cannot attend the assembly and our would like to skip meals, please call Mary at the synod office for the appropriate reduction in registration cost. Registrations must be postmarked by May 30th to take advantage of the pre-assembly price. No registrations will be accepted by e-mail or phone (download a registration form) complete the form and send the form to:
Assembly Registration
Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod
P.O. Box 43
Pleasantville, PA 16341-0043
AND If you register your delegation by May 4th each voting member and visitor will receive a pre-assembly packet of information in time for the pre-assembly meetings.
At registration you will receive your name tag (this is your meal card), your room assignment, and an information packet.
The Memorial Service will take place on Thursday evening in the Donald Johnson Memorial Chapel at Thiel. The Committee on Worship and Music will be sending each congregation and pastor a memo requesting names of the saints from your congregation who have joined the Church Triumphant during the past year.
Festival Eucharist and hopefully ordinations will take place at Holy Trinity on Friday evening.
Business sessions will take place in the Lutheran Heritage Room of the Howard Miller Student Center.
The display area for agencies and institutions will be housed in the Rotunda area of the Howard Miller Student Center. (download a display space request form)
Voting members will be seated at tables in the Lutheran Heritage room a small visitors' section will be available as space permits. The election committee will distribute ballots only at the tables for voting members and only to persons with a VOTING MEMBER name tag. It is not mandatory that you remain seated at the tables for the entire assembly but you do need to be within that section to receive your ballots.
OPEN POSITIONS - NOMINATIONS NEEDED
SECRETARY OF THE SYNOD (term expires 2014)
Rev. James M. Seeley
TREASURER OF THE SYNOD (term expires 2014)
Dennis L. Yarian
SYNOD COUNCIL
ELK-CAMERON CLUSTER - TERM EXPIRES 2013 - LAY PERSON
MCKEAN-POTTER CLUSTER- TERM EXPIRES 2013 - CLERGY
ERIE-WEST CLUSTER - TERM EXPIRES 2011 - LAY PERSON
RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS
Conferences, congregations, synodical units, and individuals may submit resolutions for consideration by the Resolutions Committee. These proposed resolutions and memorials need to be received at the synod office by May 25, 2009. The Committee on Reference and Counsel will consider resolutions and memorials received. Please send a hard copy of your document as well as e-mailing it or sending it on CD.
All resolutions, along with the recommended action by the committee, will be distributed to the voting members during the first session of the assembly. Additional resolutions pertaining to the items on the assembly agenda may be submitted to the Committee on Reference and Counsel during the assembly, by 12:00 noon on Friday, June 12.
The Committee on Resolutions may:
- recommend a resolution to the assembly as received;
- edit and recommend to assembly;
- refer to the author(s) for editing;
- refer to the synod council, deans or another committee; or
- refuse to recommend
(download a Resolution Worksheet.)
FORMS FOR ASSEMBLY
REGISTRATION FORM download
FORMATTA FILLER before you attempt to open this form on your computer
DISPLAY SPACE REQUEST download FORMATTA FILLER before you attempt to open this form on your computer
BIO FORM FOR NOMINATION download FORMATTA FILLER before you attempt to open this form on your computer
RESOLUTION WORKSHEET AND FORM This worksheet is in Word format
FORUM REQUEST This request form is in Word format
ABOUT FORMATTA FILLER
Formatta Filler is a free program that is used to open forms that have been created using FORMATTA DESIGNER. This is a free program and takes just a few minutes to download. You must download and install the program on your computer for the forms listed above to function. This is the URL that will get you to the free download (http://www.formatta.com/support/index.html). Please perform the download and install FORMATTA FILLER on your computer before you attempt to open the registration form. This program is used for all the forms that come from the ELCA and it may come in handy when attempting to download and complete other registration forms.
In the near future the synod office will be converting all our registration forms to FORMATTA to make it easier to complete forms online and send them to us via e-mail. Next year all assembly forms will be completed online. FORMATTA will ask you to register FILLER but that's just so that they will know how may thousands of people use the software.
If you have questions, please call the synod office.
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