God in in mission. Or maybe another way to say it is that from before the foundations of the earth God set forth on a mission, a mission of His initiative, His design, His motivation—thus totally His own. The fullness of that mission is surely enwrapped in mystery, for who can comprehend the mind of God or know fully all that He conceives except for He who was with Him from the beginning, and was sent by God to reveal Him to humanity (John 7:29)?

Nevertheless, as He has chosen to reveal His mission we who have received the mind of Christ (The mind of He who was with Him from the beginning) and to whom has been give the Holy Spirit, can see by faith various elements of His mission, for He has reveal it through Holy Scriptures. For “men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” (2 Peter 1:21).

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When the dust settled from the 2010 Synodical Convention much of the work of the Blue Ribbon Task

Force on Synodical Structure and Governance had actually been adopted. Some key recommendations
were defeated and a good number of recommendations were never acted upon.

It is important to note that the long time process for the convention based election of the Synodical
President, First Vice President and other Vice Presidents has been replaced with a new process that puts
these important decisions much closer to the “grass roots” of the church.

What follows is a summary of the newly adopted process:

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