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88th Stated Meeting of the Presbytery of Western North Carolina April 26, 2011 Montreat Conference Center Anderson Auditorium PAGES ARE ARRANGED IN PACKET ORDER Docket Ref Format Description Pages # PDF Contents 1 PDF Docket and Calendar of Events 2-5 PDF Dr. Brian K. Blount – Biography and Invitation for Conversation 6-7 PDF Letter from the Stated Clerk 8 PDF Newcomer’s Guide to Presbytery Meetings 9-10 PDF Directions and Campus Map for Montreat Conference Center 11-13 PDF Rules for Debate 14 A PDF Omnibus Motion 15 B PDF Stated Clerk’s Report -Stated Clerk Attachment 1 – Administrative Commission Reports for First Presbyterian, Marion -Stated Clerk Attachment 2 - Administrative Commission Report for 16-20 Iglesia Emanuel Fellowship, Hickory -Stated Clerk Attachment 3 - Administrative Commission Report for New Vision, Conover New Church Development C PDF Coordinating Council -Coordinating Council Attachment 1 – Process for Consideration of Amendments -Coordinating Council Attachment 2 – Majority Report from Task Force 21-34 on the proposed new Form of Government -Coordinating Council Attachment 3 – Minority Report from Task Force on the proposed new Form of Government D PDF Committee on Ministry (COM) -COM Attachment 1 – Sexual Misconduct Policy -COM Attachment 2 – Sexual Misconduct Implementation Plan 35-54 -COM Attachment 3 –Statement of Faith & Bio for Ryan Brakemeyer -COM Attachment 4 –Statement of Faith & Bio for Bill Lindeman F PDF Committee on Representation 55-58 I PDF Nominating Committee Recommendations 59-62 P PDF Outreach Division (Mission, Hunger, Peace & Justice, Self-Development of People, Guatemala Partnership, & Guatemala Church Delegation 63-65 Report) W PDF Resource Center Report 66 X PDF Stewardship Committee 67-68 BB PDF Budget and Finance Committee Report 69-70 GP PDF General Presbyter Report 71-73 II PDF Synod Reports 74-76 Total Pages included in this packet 76 PRESBYTERY OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA GUIDE TO WORSHIP AND WORK EIGHTY-EIGHTH STATED MEETING APRIL 26, 2011 MONTREAT CONFERENCE CENTER ANDERSON AUDITORIUM EIGHTY EIGHTH STATED MEETING PRESBYTERY OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA April 26, 2011 8:30 Registration (Lobby of Anderson Auditorium) 8:30 Prayer before Presbytery (Lower Anderson Auditorium - Room 2) Orientation for New Elders (Lower Anderson Auditorium - Room 1) 9:00 Convene with Prayer of Invocation James Aydelotte, Moderator (Anderson Auditorium) Welcome Pete Peery, President Montreat Conference Center Appointment of Standing Committee Moderator Resolution of Thanks Certification of Quorum Bert Sigmon, Stated Clerk Approval of Docket Omnibus Motion A (Omnibus Motion is a consent motion. Any commissioner may pull any item from the consent agenda for any reason. Simply state the item to be removed from the Omnibus Motion and it will be dealt with as part of the committee report from which it was drawn.) Stated Clerk’s Report B (Report of Administrative Commissions; Annual Report from Committee on Representation) Reports Submitted for Information and/or Included in the Omnibus Committee on Representation F Nominating Committee I Outreach Division P Budget and Finance Committee BB Reports from Commissioners to Synod II 9:15 Coordinating Council J. D. Waldrop C (Special Offering for Malawi Missions.) Introduction of Brian Blount, President, Union Seminary 9:25 Service of Worship, including Celebration of the Lord’s Supper Liturgist Shannon Kershner Preacher Brian Blount Sermon: “It’s Always Exodus” Scripture: Revelation 1:9-11 Communion Distributed by Elders from the Black Mountain & Montreat Churches Commissioning of Malawi and Guatemala Mission Teams Special Offering ~ Nkhoma Hospital, Malawi Missions 10:50 Committee on Ministry John Frye D Sexual Misconduct Administrative Task Force Jim Wallis D (The policy and implementation plan are included as part of Committee on Ministry Report) Campus Mission Joseph Washburn Montreat College Youth Committee Michael Bailey Christian Education Dick Lonnee W (Resource Center opportunity) Let’s Celebrate ~ August 20, 2011 Adam Bowling (Annual event for everyone in the Presbytery) Presbyterian Investment & Loan Program Catherine Lynch (Benefits of investments received and designated for the Presbytery) 12:10 Prayers of Intercession (Please submit requested prayers of intercession to the Stated Clerk’s table before 11:00 a.m.) 12:15 Lunch (Assembly Inn) 1:30 Reconvene (Anderson Auditorium) Speak Out (Opportunity to address the Presbytery for one minute or less, per speaker, on any suitable topic. No new business may be introduced at this point, but announcements, concerns, or opinions may be shared.) 1:35 Report of General Presbyter Bobbi White GP 1:40 Belhar Confession Bible Study Brian Blount New Form of Government (nFOG) Stewardship Frank Aichinger X (A Year of The Stewardship of Gratitude) Peace and Justice Jane Laping P Resolution of Thanks Benediction and Adjournment Moderator If you are on the docket as a representative for a committee, you are asked to sit on the stage in the Auditorium. Please note that Presbytery Standing Rules “do not” allow any distribution of materials at Presbytery meetings without prior approval from the Coordinating Council. Also, please turn off or silence cell phones during Presbytery worship times. Your cooperation is appreciated. CALENDAR OF EVENTS APRIL 22 PRESBYTERY OFFICE CLOSED - GOOD FRIDAY 26 88th STATED MEETING OF PRESBYTERY Montreat Conference Center Let’s Celebrate Task Force & Youth Committee Assembly Inn MAY 3 New Church Development New Vision 5 Session Records Review Dallas, First 9 Examinations Committee Morganton, First 10 Committee on Ministry Morganton, First 11 Coordinating Council Morganton, First 14 Camp Grier Workday Camp Grier SL/CLP Graduation Morganton, First 16 Nominating Committee Morganton, First 18 Preparation for Ministry Committee Morganton, First 19 Small Church Redevelopment Task Force Morganton, First Christian Education Committee Black Mountain Home for Children 20-21 SLAYM (Senior Highs Leap into Asheville Youth Mission) 21 Session Records Training and Review Burnsville, First 23 Care of Church Professionals Timberwoods Luncheon for New Church Professionals Timberwoods 26 Youth Committee Morganton Small Church Committee Black Mountain 30 PRESBYTERY OFFICE CLOSED - MEMORIAL DAY JUNE 2 Sacred Trust - Relational Boundaries for Religious Leaders Black Mountain 4 Campus Mission Committee Black Mountain Home for Children 8 Coordinating Council Morganton, First 11 Session Records Training and Review Columbus Creating a Spiritual Culture of Generosity - Stewardship Workshop Morganton, First 13 Examinations Committee Morganton, First Validated Ministries Sub-Committee Black Mountain 14 Committee on Ministry Morganton, First Session Records Review Marion, First 21 Non-Installed Pastors Sub-Committee Hickory, First 23 Youth Committee Montreat JULY 4 PRESBYTERY OFFICE CLOSED ~ INDEPENDENCE DAY 5 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF REPORTS FOR JULY PRESBYTERY MEETING 11 Examinations Committee Morganton, First 12 Committee on Ministry Morganton, First 13 Coordinating Council Morganton, First 19 Non-Installed Pastors Sub-Committee Hickory, First 26 89th STATED MEETING OF PRESBYTERY Gastonia, First 27 Board of Pensions ~ Planned Giving Seminar Black Mountain Board of Pensions ~ Retirees Luncheon Black Mountain 28 Youth Committee Morganton, First AUGUST 6 Sacred Trust - Relational Boundaries for Religious Leaders Morganton, First 20 Let’s Celebrate...With Gratitude to God Morganton, First 2011 Presbytery Meetings April 26, 2011 ~ Montreat Conference Center July 26, 2011 ~ First Presbyterian Church, Gastonia October 21-22, 2011 ~ Lake Junaluska Conference Center Brian K. Blount President, Professor of New Testament College of William and Mary, B.A. Princeton Theological Seminary, M.Div. Emory University, Ph.D. Brian K. Blount is president and professor of New Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary, a theological institution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) with campuses in Richmond, VA, and Charlotte, NC. Blount was called to this position in March 2007, after serving for 15 years as the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Princeton Theological Seminary. A master of divinity graduate of Princeton Seminary in 1981, he obtained his B.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1978. After graduating from Princeton Seminary, he became pastor of the Carver Memorial Presbyterian Church in Newport News, Virginia from 1982-1988. William and Mary’s first African American to receive membership in the Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, he received his Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from Emory University in 1992. He returned to teach at Princeton Seminary the same year. In 1998, Professor Blount became the first African American to be tenured in the Department of Bible at Princeton Theological Seminary. Recently he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Presbyterian College. Blount’s primary work has been in the Gospel of Mark and in the area of cultural studies and hermeneutics. He is the author of four books: Cultural Interpretation: Reorienting New Testament Criticism (Fortress Press, 1995); Go Preach! Mark’s Kingdom Message and the Black Church Today (Orbis Book, 1998); Then The Whisper Put on Flesh: New Testament Ethics in an African American Context (Abingdon Press, 2001); Can I Get A Witness? Reading Revelation Through an African American Culture (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005). In addition, he has edited a volume of essays on worship with Leonora Tubbs Tisdale