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SYNOD 2020 Les Défis De L'évangélisation The Challenges of Evangelism: Why Are We Inviting People? CONVENING CIRCULAR OF THE 161TH SYNOD 2020 Les défis de l'évangélisation: Pourquoi invitons-nous les gens? CONVOCATION AU 161E SYNODE 2020 CONTENTS Information for Synod Delegates ..................................................................................... 5 Renseignements pour les délégués du Synode .............................................................. 7 Agenda ............................................................................................................................ 9 Nominating Committee of Synod ................................................................................... 10 Nominations for Election to Diocesan Council by Synod 2020 ................ 10 Nominations for Election to Synod Planning Committee 2021 -2023 ........ 10 Nominations for Election to Provincial Synod 2021 ............................... 10 Diocesan Delegates Elected to General Synod 2019 ............................. 11 Elected to Diocesan Council by Deanery Chapters ............................... 11 Proposed Canonical Changes / Changements canoniques proposés ........................... 12 Proposed Constitutional Changes - Changements constitutionnels proposés ............... 12 Motions - Propositions de modifications ........................................................................ 12 Motion “A” – Election of a Diocesan Treasurer ..................................... 12 Motion «A» – Élection du trésorier diocésain ....................................... 12 Motion “B” – Nomination of Auditors .................................................... 12 Motion «B» – Nomination des vérificateurs .......................................... 12 Motion “C” – Budget ........................................................................... 13 Motion «C» – Budget.......................................................................... 13 Motion “D” – Mode de scrutin .............................................................. 13 Motion «D» – Voting procedure ........................................................... 13 Motion «E» – Démanteler le racisme anti-noir dans le diocèse de Montréal14 Motion “E” – Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in the Diocese of Montreal . 14 Synod Reports - Rapports du synode ............................................................................ 20 Diocesan Council report 2019 ............................................................. 20 Standing Committee on Finance .......................................................... 27 Standing Committee on Human Resources ........................................... 28 Standing Committee on Mission .......................................................... 29 Community Ministries ......................................................................... 30 Action Réfugiés Montréal ............................................................................................... 30 Mile-End Community Mission ........................................................................................ 31 2 St Michael’s Mission ...................................................................................................... 34 Reports on National Committees ......................................................... 35 Anglican Fellowship of Prayer – Canada ....................................................................... 35 Council of General Synod .............................................................................................. 35 Provincial Synod ............................................................................................................ 36 Other Reports .................................................................................... 38 Anglican Balanced Funds .............................................................................................. 38 Anglican Church Women ............................................................................................... 39 Anglican Montreal Board of Management...................................................................... 40 Archives ......................................................................................................................... 40 Audit Committee ............................................................................................................ 42 Crosstalk Ministries ....................................................................................................... 42 Congregational Development and Post-Ordination Training .......................................... 43 Education for Ministry (EFM) ......................................................................................... 45 Lay Readers’ Association .............................................................................................. 46 Montreal Diocesan Theological College ........................................................................ 48 Partnerships Committee ................................................................................................ 50 Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund ............................................................. 51 Property Redevelopment ............................................................................................... 52 Spiritual Direction Group ................................................................................................ 54 Stewardship of the Environment Committee .................................................................. 55 Synod Planning Committee ........................................................................................... 58 Vocational Deacons ....................................................................................................... 58 Youth Ministry and Digital Communications .................................................................. 59 Chaplaincies ..................................................................................... 67 Brome –Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital, Cowansville ........................................................ 67 Concordia University Multi-Faith Chaplaincy ................................................................. 70 Federal Prison Chaplaincy – Cowansville Institution ..................................................... 71 Federal Prison Chaplaincy – Federal Training Centre, Laval ........................................ 71 McGill Anglican-United Chaplaincy ................................................................................ 72 Mouvement Communitas ............................................................................................... 73 3 Ste-Anne’s Hospital ....................................................................................................... 74 Minutes of Synod 2019 .................................................................................................. 76 Draft Budget .................................................................................................................. 85 États financiers consolidés ............................................................................................ 98 Parochial Statistics 2019 ............................................................................................. 123 4 INFORMATION FOR SYNOD DELEGATES The Convening Circular This circular is available online at www.montreal.anglican.ca. If you need a printed version of the circular, please make arrangements with your home parish. If printed, please do not discard your Convening Circular after Synod. It contains reports of committees, financial statements, and parish statistics that are part of the official proceedings. In order to conserve paper and cut costs, it was decided at the 1996 Synod not to reprint this information in the Synod Journal. The official bound copy of the Journal kept on file in the Diocesan Archives will contain a complete set of reports. Meeting of Synod and Registration Synod will meet on-line this year. Upon registration only, you will receive an invitation to join the meeting by email as well as all the technical information. It is therefore mandatory to register prior to Synod in order to be allowed to join the meeting. As a Synod Delegates, you will receive, to your email adress, the link the register. There is no fee for this virtual Synod. Synod Members The names of Synod members, both clerical and lay, are listed on the Diocesan website [www.montreal.anglican.ca/synod]. If you are a member of Synod and your name is not on the lists, please contact Sophie Bertrand at [email protected]. Visitors Only Synod members will be allowed to attend to the virtual meeting. Visitors will be invited to follow the Synod meeting live on the diocesan YouTube Channel. New Delegates On the morning of Synod, from 8:30 – 9:00 am, a virtual briefing session for new Synod Delegates will take place. In preparation, a document entitled “New Delegate Handbook” is available for download from the diocesan website at www.montreal.anglican.ca/synod. Agenda The agenda is available in this Circular. Please note that the Chair will attempt to deal with motions at the times listed in the Agenda, but the debating process may make changes necessary. Delegate Status Only delegates and/or substitute delegates whose names were previously submitted to Synod Office may register and vote at Synod. If both delegate(s) and substitute delegate(s) are unable to serve, the parish must hold another Vestry Meeting to elect a new delegate(s).
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