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Covenant Resources Paper Amendment
PORTLAND, OR (June 23, 2007) – Delegates to the 122nd Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church today approved the following bylaws amendment on Covenant Resource Papers.
Amendment: Bylaws Article II, Section 2.1.d.
Current wording: “All proposed Covenant Resource Papers must initially be commissioned by a two-thirds vote of either (i) the delegates present and voting at an Annual Meeting of the ECC or (ii) the Executive Board of the ECC. Once commissioned, a proposed Covenant Resource Paper must be adopted or rejected by an Annual Meeting before another proposed Covenant Resource Paper on any topic may be commissioned.”
Proposed wording: “All proposed Covenant Resource Papers must initially be commissioned by a two-thirds vote of either (i) the delegates present and voting at an Annual Meeting of the ECC or (ii) the Executive Board of the ECC. Once commissioned, a proposed Covenant Resource Paper must be adopted or rejected by an Annual Meeting before another proposed Covenant Resource Paper on any topic may be commissioned. The commissioning of a Covenant Resource Paper may be requested by a member congregation, regional conference, board, commission, corporation, institution, or department of the ECC.”
Proposed by Gregory Ralston, delegate from Living Hope Covenant Church of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and spread on the minutes of the 2006 Annual Meeting for action in 2007.
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