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Cashar
Evans, Hope Morgan Ward, Emily Innes and Sam Wynn listen to
plenary presentation during General Conference. David
Malloy is behind Cashar Evans.
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Jerry Lowry, Beth Norris and David Banks during
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List of General Conference Delegates
COMMENTS |
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Journal -
Thursday, April 29, 2004
A daily
observation of first time North Carolina Conference
Delegate Ben Adams to the General Conference. Adams is the
president of Conference United Methodist Youth.
DAY Three
Beginner’s Luck:
A First Timer’s Look at General Conference |
Day three of my journey to Pittsburgh has seen a
little more work than the prior two days. Day one was
only settling in, and day two was just the opening
service and the introduction to business, but today
was business.
In legislative committees (mine is the committee on
Discipleship), we split into our sub-committees. The
sub-committee on young people’s ministries is the one
that I was assigned to, for obvious reasons. So we as
a sub-committee must come up with a report for the
other committee, which then must come up with a report
for the plenary session. Does the United Methodist
Church have enough committees? I would imagine that
there are 43 other little sub-committees of roughly 20
to 25 people that are debating knit-picky issues about
certain petitions and resolutions. But hey, it has to
get done somewhere.
Our sub-committee debated all issues around young
people that are before the General Conference.
Conference scouting committees, district scouting
committees, the UM student movement, and the big one,
Creating the Division on Young People, which had
subsequent legislation to follow, were the issues that
took up a large part of our time. Hopefully, we’ll be
done before lunch tomorrow. (There’s a Pirates game at
12:30 tomorrow afternoon and Petit is pitching for the
Astros!!)
Three days down. Twelve to go… |
In Order,
Ben Adams
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