TO: All members of BC Synod Council, all Rostered Ministers, all Congregations

FROM: The Secretary of the BC Synod

DATE: October 18, 2024

OFFICIAL NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2024

As required by the Bylaws (please refer below to the quoted text), the Synod Council calls the Annual General Meeting of the BC Synod for 2024. It will be held on November 27, 2024, at 7:30 pm on the Zoom online platform. Anyone who holds membership in a congregation of the BC Synod may vote. All congregations are asked to post this notice in a prominent place where each congregation and its members regularly meet.

For Zoom details, please contact the synod office. 

Agenda (first draft)
• Call to order, devotion, prayer
• Minutes of the 2023 AGM
• Business arising from the minutes
• Audited Financial Report for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2024.

On behalf of the BC Synod Council,

Karen Lee
Secretary

Excerpt from the Constitution and Bylaws of the British Columbia Synod
Bylaw 10 Section 3 “ … For the purpose of satisfying the requirements of the B.C. Societies Act, one meeting of the Synod Council annually shall include the annual general meeting of this Synod which meeting shall be held within six months of the end of the fiscal year. For purposes of this annual general meeting a voting member shall be any person who holds membership in a congregation of the Synod and a quorum shall be seven persons. Furthermore, thirty days written notice of this annual general meeting shall be given to every member of the Synod Council and to each congregation of this Synod. In addition members of this Synod will be informed of such meeting by posting notice where each congregation and its members regularly meet.”