Friends,
Thank you for reading this important information about Pacific Mountain’s upcoming Annual General Meeting. Please be sure to share the following information with your community of faith. This is a copy of the April 30, 2024 newsletter, and the link is posted to the AGM 2024 webpage.
We hope that this information helps to keep you connected and informed.
Blessings,
PMRC Staff
AGM 2024 Latest Highlights (April 30, 2024)
- The office is delighted to have received registration for just over 90 Voting Delegates, and close to 30 Non-Voting Delegates. Register by May 15 to ensure your place in the meal count.
- The discounted hotel-booking window is coming to a close.
- Communities of faith sending voting delegates are reminded that there is an in-person New Delegates Orientation at 2pm on Thursday May 30, 2024, at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United (time and date for the online orientation TBA).
- AGM 2024 rises at 4pm, Thursday May 30, 2024; the Welcome/Check-In table opens at 1pm.
- Plan to attend the 2024 Financial Forum – sign up to get the Zoom access link.
- Celebrate the revealing of the Connecting, Collaborating, Cultivating logo artwork as seen at the top of this email and on the AGM 2024 website, enlivening this year’s theme and scripture:12 By yourself you’re unprotected.
With a friend you can face the worst.
Can you round up a third?
A three-stranded rope isn’t easily snapped.Ecclesiastes 4:12 ~ The Message
A Note for Ministry Personnel
Please consider this your personal invitation to come a day early to the Annual General Meeting location, to gather with colleagues, me, and Growth Animator Rev. Scott Reynolds, to explore how we are called to minister and lead in this time and place, post-pandemic.
How can we support one another in the challenging work of ministry leadership today? What do we want to lament, and what do we want to ask God’s blessings on? How did you embrace ministry during the pandemic, and what did you learn?
Deep Dive will be a time of community, discernment, and celebration, and I hope you can join me! Click for the Schedule Overview and click to register online for Deep Dive.
Be in touch if you have any questions (MSlater@united-church.ca)
Blessings,
Michelle
Children and Youth Teens Program at AGM
You’re invited to inspired and encourage children and young teens from your community of faith to join you in attending the AGM!
Please help get this information to parents and caregivers in your community of faith. Make sure they know about any funds your church has to help them attend the AGM.
All are welcome!
- The region’s First Third Ministry staff and volunteers are excited to welcome people who are 8 to 14 years old to CYT@AMG (Children & Young Teens at Annual General Meeting)!
The CYT@AGM is not an overnight program!
- This First Third Ministry program follows the same hours as the general meeting schedule. At the end of each day, CYT participants are reunited with their Parent/Guardian or Sponsor, who they remain in the care of until the next day’s First Third Ministry check-in time.
CYT@AMG program includes time in the Annual General Meeting plenary!
- During CYT Program Time, participants will share activities, build community, and learn about the United Church in both age-specific streams (Children’s Stream / Young Teens Stream) and as a whole group.
- During AGM Plenary Time, CYT participants will be in the main meeting room of the general meeting called ‘plenary’, to share in worship, learning, and celebrations of the Pacific Mountain Regional Council.
Online First Third Ministry Registration:
Contact Alexandra Barr or Pamela Evans at the First Third Ministry office for support or more information: ABarr@united-church.ca or PEvans@united-church.ca
And, some Quick Links to…
Whova Info … Proposals – How to Make One … Executive Nomination Form … General Council 45 Commissioner Nomination Form … Children & Young Teens Program Information … Hotel & Travel Intel … and what’s an AGM?
