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3250 Bloor Street West, Suite 300 416-231-5931 1-800-268-3781 Toronto, Ontario F: 416-231-3103 M8X 2Y4 Canada www.united-church.ca March 2015 Dear Friends, Grace and peace to you in the name of Jesus Christ. As you prepare for your last meeting of the triennium, we would like to express our gratitude and thanksgiving for your work over the past three years. The United Church of Canada is truly blessed to have such faithful and committed governors in this time of change as we open ourselves in hope and prayer to God’s new creation. By the time you meet in mid-March, the Comprehensive Review Task Group will have shared its final report and recommendations with the church. We strongly encourage you to read these materials closely before your meeting so you can engage in lively and deep conversations in your table groups. We hope these discussions will help equip you to take leadership roles this spring and summer in your Conferences as they consider these materials and bring forward proposals to the 42nd General Council in August. Also at this meeting, you will work with other important reports and proposals that you will find in this workbook. We thank members whose terms on the Executive will come to an end at this meeting. Thank you for your wisdom and commitment, and for sharing your gifts with the church in this ministry of governance. God’s mission needs strong leaders, and we pray that you will feel called to use your many gifts in new ways in your communities of faith and beyond. We also are grateful for members who will continue to serve on the Executive during the next triennium. Whatever the General Council decides in August, you will be called on to oversee significant and sometimes difficult changes that will require us to let go of things we cherish, but also enable us to participate more faithfully in God’s new creation. May God give us wisdom, strength, and hope as we look to the future together. In faith, The Right Rev. Gary Paterson Nora Sanders Moderator General Secretary, General Council The Mission and Service of The United Church of Canada: God’s mission, our gift. La mission et le service de l’Église Unie du Canada : la mission de Dieu, pour nous, par nous. Executive of the General Council For Information March 21-23, 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS March 21-23, 2015 Draft Agenda .................................................................................................................................. 4 Table Group Assignments .............................................................................................................. 5 List of Proposals ............................................................................................................................ 6 Intercultural Lens Tool .................................................................................................................. 7 Correspondence to the Executive of the General Council to February 20, 2015 .......................... 8 General Secretary General Secretary’s Accountability Report ............................................................................. 9-18 Regional Models Report .................................................................................................. 19-28 GCE Reports Moderator’s Accountability Report ....................................................................................... 29-34 42nd General Council Planning Committee Report ................................................................ 35-36 Committee on Indigenous Justice and Residential Schools Accountability Report .............. 37-40 World Council of Churches Report ....................................................................................... 41-43 Joint Grants Accountability Report ....................................................................................... 44-49 Permanent Committee Reports Aboriginal Ministries Council Accountability Report ........................................................... 50-55 Theology and Inter-Church Inter-Faith Committee Accountability Report .......................... 56-62 Permanent Committee on Finance Accountability Report .................................................... 63-70 Permanent Committee on Governance and Agenda Accountability Report ......................... 71-73 Permanent Committee on Ministry and Employment Policies and Services Accountability Report ...................................................................................................... 74-78 Permanent Committee on Programs for Mission and Ministry Accountability Report ......... 79-84 Proposals – Consent MEPS 18 Conference Interviews for Interim Ministers (TOR 1) .......................................... 85-86 MEPS 19 Sabbaticals for Persons Involved in Interim Ministry (HAM 10) ......................... 87-89 MEPS 20 Changes to the Admission Policies and Procedures .............................................. 90-91 MEPS 21 Pastoral Relations Sabbatical Leave Policy .......................................................... 92-93 MEPS 22 Full-Time Paid Accountable Ministries (HAM 3) ................................................ 94-96 MEPS 24 Addressing Systemic Inequality in Clergy Compensation (LON 3) ..................... 97-98 MEPS 25 Gender Transitioning Health Spending Account ................................................ 99-100 MEPS 26 Pension Contributions by Pastoral Charges with Retired Supply (HAM 9) ............. 101 G&A 11 GCE Meeting Dates 2015-2018 .......................................................................... 102-103 FIN 7 2015 Budget Approval – Revised ............................................................................ 104-105 Proposals – Plenary GS 51 Opening Motions .................................................................................................... 106-107 GS 52 Procedural Motions ......................................................................................................... 108 GS 54 Site Proposal, GC43 ................................................................................................ 109-110 PAGE 2 Executive of the General Council For Information March 21-23, 2015 GS 55 Mutual Recognition – PROK .................................................................................. 111-118 GS 56 Full Communion with United Church of Christ, USA ........................................... 119-125 MEPS 23 Effective Leadership .......................................................................................... 126-135 Red Sessional TICIF 2 One Order of Ministry ......................................................................................... 136-145 TICIF 3 Towards a New Model of Membership ............................................................... 146-155 Blue Sessional PMM 16 Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) Strategy ....................................................... 156-164 GS 53 LGBTTQ Living Apology ...................................................................................... 165-168 TICIF 5 Online Communion .............................................................................................. 169-173 Yellow Sessional PMM 17 Extension of Unsettling Goods Campaign ......................................................... 174-175 Interim Campaign Report ............................................................................................ 176-183 PMM 18 Mission and Ministry with Migrant Churches .................................................... 184-192 TICIF 4 Physician Assisted Death ..................................................................................... 193-201 Added March 13 GS 57 St. Columba House Property ‒ Encroachment Servitude .................................................202 GS 58 Alternate Proposal for Action on Effective Leadership and Healthy Pastoral Relationships Report ..............................................................................................................203 Report on Travel Rate for 2016 ...................................................................................................204 MEPS Economic Adjustment for 2016........................................................................................205 The Report of the Working Group on Leadership Formation for Ministry ......................... 206-215 Meeting Minutes of The Executive and Sub-Executive October 15, 2014 Sub-Executive November 15-17, 2014 Executive (draft) November 27, 2014 Sub-Executive December 18, 2014 Sub-Executive January 7, 2015 Sub-Executive Tracking Sheets for the Triennium PAGE 3 Executive of the General Council For Information March 21-23, 2015 DRAFT 3 AGENDA – EXECUTIVE OF GENERAL COUNCIL, SPRING 2015 Saturday, March 21 Sunday, March 22 Monday, March 23 8:20-8:30 Gathering Music Gathering Music Gathering Music 8:30 – 10:30 Welcome 5 Worship 10 10:00 a.m. start with pick Worship – In Memoriams 30 Today We Will + Motion to up break Governance – Agenda 10 Move Out of In-Camera 10 Table Group Check-in 15 Blue Sessional Report 60 Consent Agenda + Procedural Motions 10 Worship led by Affirm 40 Moderator’s Acc. 25 Today We Will 5 AMC Accountability 25 PC PMM Acc. Report 25 Intro: Ya Ya Strategy 10 10:30 – 11:00 BREAK BREAK Migrant Church 10 11:00 – 12:30 General Secretary’s Acc. 30 Intro: Unsettling Goods10 Red Sessional Report 60 Intro GLBTT Proposal 10 Global Partner 15 Nominations 10 Proposal GC43 Venue 10 Music Pick up Coffee Cups 5 Proposal Mutual Agree.5 Other Reports 20 Celebrations, Friend
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