Author: Roy Janssen

  • GS 1968 art 137

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 137 Rev. L. Moes requests Synod to sing Psalm 139:1,2,13, and leads in thanksgiving and supplication.

  • GS 1968 art 136

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 136 Synod is informed that the condition of Rev. J. T. VanPopta, appointed Professor for Systematic Theology, is deteriorating. Synod receives this information with sorrow.

  • GS 1968 art 135

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 135 The Chairman welcomes the Rev. Drs. J. Faber who has arrived from The Nether­lands to discuss his appointment as professor for Old Testament. Rev. Faber expresses his thanks for the confidence placed in him. A meeting with Rev. J. Faber in executive session is scheduled for tomorrow.

  • GS 1968 art 134

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 134 Committee III on Contact with the Christian Reformed Church presents: (See Supplement 10) Materials: Recommendations: I.        (Re: Report of Deputies ad III, pp.5-7, on the Three Forms of Unity) Synod take note of the fact that, though there is a slight difference in the edition of the text of Art. 36…

  • GS 1968 art 133

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 133 The Acts of the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Session inclusive are read and adopted, Art. 99 (Executive Session) excepted.

  • GS 1968 art 132

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 132 I.  Recommendations: ADOPTED ADOPTED II. The Board considered the matter of a temporary mandate for the present situation, and of a general mandate. Recommendation: Synod approve of the following instructions for the Committee of Administration: ADOPTED III. Recommendation: Synod set the opening date of the Theological College on the second Wednesday in September, ie.…

  • GS 1968 art 131

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 131 Executive Session

  • GS 1968 art 130

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 130 Synod decides to meet in executive session in order to deal with the advisory report of the Board of Governors mentioned in Art. 120.

  • GS 1968 art 129

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 129 Rev. W. Loopstra and Rev. D. VanderBoom, President and Secretary of the Board of Governors, respectively, receive the privilege of the floor.

  • GS 1968 art 128

    GS 1968 ARTICLE 128 Incoming mail from the Church at Smithers, B.C., from some brethren at Smith­ville, Ont., and from a brother at Kingston, Ont., cannot be dealt with, since these communications have been received after the date set in Article 21.