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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ASSEMBLY FESTIVAL EUCHARIST CHOIR
If you are attending assembly this year and would like to sing in the Festival Eucharist Choir, here is the information you will need.
Festival Eucharist is at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 11th
Choir Rehearsal is from 4 - 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 11th - this gives us plenty of time for dinner
Location: Johnson Memorial Chapel on Thiel's Campus (air-conditioned)
Dress: Whatever you'd like (no uniformity!) Thirty years of purgatory if you dress like Saint Barnabas!
What are we singing?
Psalm - Choir and Congregation sign the refrain, choir chants verses (in parts)
Verse (Gospel Acclamation) - choir and congregation sign the alleluia (choir in parts); choir chants the gradual verse (also in parts)
Offertory Anthem - AFRICA - as written
Descant for Sopranos/Tenors - Lift High the Cross
Hymns to be sung in parts:
- Eternal Ruler of the Ceaseless Round
- Lord Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor
- Draw Us In the Spirit's Tether
- Rejoice in God's Saints
Download the music by clicking on each link above.
2010 Proposed Assembly Agenda
2011 Proposed Budget
2011 Proposed Compensation Standards for Rostered Leaders
2011 Proposed Mission Support Formula
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 Constitution and Bylaws
Committee on Leadership Support
Committee on World Hunger
Lutheran Disaster Response
Committee on Global Mission
Bethesda Children's Home / Lutheran Social Services
Eastern Cluster of Seminaries
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
Village at Luther Square
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
Synodical Women of the ELCA
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
Click on the nominee's name to download biographical information.
Secretary of the Synod (2014)
Rev. James M. Seeley
Treasurer of the Synod (2014)
Dennis L. Yarian
Synod Council Cluster Representatives
Elk/Cameron - lay person (2013)
McKean/Potter - clergy (2013) - Rev. Karl W. Runser III
Erie-West - lay person (2011) - Robert W. Holderer, Ph.D.
Consultation Committee (6 year terms) - 1 clergy and 1 layperson
clergy - Rev. James Judy
lay person - Karen Emmett
lay person - David Pryber
Currently serving on the Consultation Committee: Pr. Harold Jacobson (2010); Pr. Julie Walz (2012); Pr. Brian Moran (2014); Dr. Mary Alice Paul (2010); Marian Kensey (2012); Judy Barron (2014)
Discipline Committee (6 year terms) - 2 clergy and 2 laypersons
clergy - Rev. Deborah Kreger Jacobson
clergy -
lay person - Don Lindenmoyer
lay person -
Currently serving on the Discipline Committee: Pr. Kimberly Saylor (2010); Pr. Gary Hilfiger (2010); Pr. Sharon Hilfiger (2012); Pr. Jeffrey Piccirilli (2012); Pr. Sandra Samuel (2014); Pr. Roy Washill (2014); Vicki Fischer (2010); Barbara Kimbrough (2010); Frances James (2012); Mary Housholder (2012); Robert Jarvis (2014); John Logan (2014)
Voting Members to Churchwide Assembly 2011 - 1 clergy in addition to Bishop Jones; 2 lay persons (female); 2 lay persons (male)
clergy -
Bishop Ralph Jones
clergy - Rev. Beth Costlow
lay person (female) - Meredith Harber
lay person (female) - Carolyn S. Worley
lay person (male) - Robert W. Holderer, Ph.D.
lay person (male) - Erik Meyer
lay person (male) - Ronald Tomko
lay person (male) - Thomas Zuschlag
The composition of the voting members elected by our synod must be 60% laypersons, 40% clergy (including Bishop Jones), 10% persons of color or persons whose primary language is other than English, and 10% youth or young adults.
Bethesda Children's Home / LSS (4 year terms)
1 clergy - Rev. J. David Mumford
1 lay person (2014) - Robert W. Holderer, Ph.D.
Lutheran Home at Kane
clergy (2014) - Rev. David Blank
clergy (2014) - Rev. Beth Costlow
Lutherlyn (4 year term)
clergy or lay (2014) -
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (4 year term)
1 lay person (2014) - Jennifer Forehand
Village at Luther Square (4 year terms)
clergy (2014) - Rev. William Coleman
layperson (2014) - Paul Rose
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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