Our synod assembly will be online this year, Friday evening and Saturday, June 11-12, 2020. This is a great opportunity to send voting members of your congregation who couldn’t normally attend a physical gathering. Extend an invite at your congregation’s annual meeting.

Because we’re online this year, we’re looking for people who are comfortable with technology, and have their own unique device to use during the entirety of the assembly for voting purposes.

HOW MANY VOTING MEMBERS? 

The voting members of the assembly are determined as follows: 
The first number is congregation size (baptized members), the second number is voting members.

• Fewer than 175 in congregation = 2 Lay Members

• 176 to 399 = 3 Lay Members

• 400 to 649 = 4 Lay Members

• 650 to 1,299 = 5 Lay Members

• 1,300 to 1,849 = 6 Lay Members

• 1,950 to 2,599 = 7 Lay Members

• 2,600 to 3,249 = 8 Lay Members

• 3,250 to 3,899 = 9 Lay Members

• 3,900 to 4,550 = 10 Lay Members

Note: Lay voting members should be split 50/50 male and female.

• All active Ministers of Word and Sacrament (pastors) and Ministers of Word and Service (deacons) on the roster of the Grand Canyon Synod are voting members. 

• Synod Council members and Officers of the Grand Canyon Synod are voting members. 

• All retired Ministers of Word and Sacrament and Ministers of Word and Service on the roster of the Grand Canyon Synod are voting members.