GS 1968 ARTICLE 23

Synod reads a letter dated September 12, 1968 (7c) of Rev. A. B. Roukema on behalf of the Deputies for Contact with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church to allow Prof. Norman Shephard, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theo­ logical Seminary, to visit the sessions of Synod in which the contact with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church will be discussed, and a copy (7d) of part of a letter of the Commit­ tee on Ecumenicity and Inter-Church Relations of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church to the Rev. A. B. Roukema concerning the same matter.

Synod decides to answer Rev. A. B. Roukema that it has no objections to Prof. Norman Shephard’s presence at these sessions as a visitor. At this moment Synod can not yet say at what day the matter will be ready for discussion in a plenary session, but at a later date it will inform the Deputies for Contact with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.