May Deputation meeting

Deputy Andrea McKellar gives a PowerPoint presentation to the deputies, Bishop vonRosenberg, and others who will be traveling to Salt Lake City June 25-July 3.

Deputies for our diocese met with Bishop vonRosenberg on Wednesday, May 20 at Grace Church, Charleston for an all-day session to prepare for the 78th General Convention. The meeting gave the deputies a chance to review orientation materials, get familiar with the draft schedule, and talk over some of the details and logistics for their time in Salt Lake City.

Each deputy gave a short briefing to the deputation on the resolutions currently before the legislative committees, and the group discussed several major items of legislation. Deputies went home with binders full of information to read and homework to complete. General Convention begins in just over 1 month.

Next: Province IV Synod

Our deputation will be at Kanuga June 3-5 along with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, President of the House of Deputies Gay Clark Jennings, and two of the four nominees for Presiding Bishop, all of whom are planning to attend the Province IV Synod meeting at Kanuga, according to the draft agenda for the gathering released this week.

The deputies are looking forward to getting more information and training for the Virtual Binders they will be using at General Convention. These are iPads that will be issued to bishops and deputies for the duration of General Convention, with an app that will electronically replicate the material that previously was provided in physical binders.