11 Aug GS 1989 art 30

ARTICLE 30 – Committee IV presents:

Agenda Item VIII D 1

MATERIAL:

Letter of Ebenezer Canadian Reformed Church of Chatham, re: Acts of General Synod Burlington 1986, Art. 186, 187.

MOTION TO AMEND

A motion to amend the Advisory Committee’s Report so that it would read as fol- lows is made and duly seconded:

A. MATERIAL

Letter of Ebenezer Canadian Reformed Church of Chatham, re: Acts of General Synod Burlington 1986, Art. 186, 187.

B: OBSERVATION

The Church at Chatham requests Synod to “register” its objections of the fact that appeals of brs. J. Werkman and H. De Jong were declared admissible by Synod 1989, even though they had withdrawn themselves from the Church at Edmonton.

C. CONSIDERATION

An ecclesiastical assembly is not called to register objections.

D. RECOMMENDATION

To declare the submission of the Church at Chatham inadmissible.

DEFEATED

The Advisory Committee takes its report back for reconsideration and revision.

(see Article 34)