GS 2025 Article 192 – Closing

• 1.    The Chairman spoke some words in closing, expressing appreciation for the oneness in faith and for the deliberative nature of this synod. He reflected on some of the more significant decisions take by this synod, such as those regarding the Book of Praise and the establishment of Ecclesiastical Fellowship (EF) with the Reformed Churches [The Netherlands] (GK) and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC).
• 2.    He informed the meeting that as gift for the convening church the executive had commissioned a landscape painting by sr. Sheila VanDelft, a member of the Aldergrove CanRC. The painting will be of a south Aldergrove landscape expressing the unity, order, and spiritual direction of the churches as they were gathered here in Aldergrove. The painting is to be completed by mid-summer.
• 3.    The Vice-chairman thanked the Chairman for his excellent service.
• 4.    The Chairman read 2 Thessalonians 3:16, led in prayer and had the meeting sing the Doxology (Hymn 8).

Thus General Synod 2025 was closed,

for the agenda had become acta.