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Delegate Diary


Daily Wrap-up: Delegates
retain stance on homosexual issues while demonstrators express beliefs

Information and News from our delegates at General conference 2004

 

Won Namkoong, clergy first reserve delegate from the NC Conference, makes a motion calling on the conference to provide increased inclusiveness training for legislative officers.
 
Some African delegates still had not arrived at General Conference because they could not obtain visas.  The stack of official materials continue to grow at their empty seats.

 List of General Conference Delegates

COMMENTS

 

 
Journal
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.


Beginner’s Luck:
A First Timer’s Look at General Conference


I spoke on the floor!!!!! HAHA!!!!  I spoke at my Discipleship meeting against the idea of having conference committees and district committees on scouting, but since it came up on the floor of the plenary, I had to do it again.  The floor supported my side of non-concurrence by roughly 75% to 25%.  There wasn’t an extreme amount of controversy or conflict today just a lot of confusion.  Financial matters just get in the way sometimes.  I still don’t quite understand all of it.  Controversy won’t be absent tomorrow though.  Church and society is up and I’m pretty sure that I’ll witness some heated and distressed emotions.  I’m not really looking forward to it.

            Some more news: I’m going to Zimbabwe.  I already talked to some of the singers from the African University Choir and they said I could.  Yesterday’s performances by them blew me away.  I really am going to be a professor at Africa University just so I can listen to them everyday.  Another you and I were talking about going there, and we really are.  I’m excited.

            General Conference has been a blast so far, but still the longer days are to come.  There’s only a few days left, but they will definitely be the longest.
 

                 Bracing myself for tomorrow,
                                               Ben Adams       

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