Category: GS 1980

GS 1980 ARTICLE 41 – Adjournment The Chairman adjourns the meeting. The Advisory Committees meet.

GS 1980 ARTICLE 40 – Request – Committee IV The following motion is moved, seconded and voted upon: Advisory Committee IV requests permission to ask advice from the Commit­tee for Contact with the O.P.C., in order to be able to draft its Advisory report to Synod. ADOPTED

GS 1980 ARTICLE 39 – Re-opening The Chairman calls on the members of Synod to sing Hymn 54:1, 4 and reads from 1 John 3:1-10. He leads in prayer. He expresses the condolences of Synod to the Rev. Cl. Stam and Elder G. VanWoudenberg, whose father and father-in-law passed away early this morning after a…

GS 1980 ARTICLE 38 – Request – Adjournment A request from Advisory Committee IV is discussed. The discussion will be continued tomorrow. The Chairman calls on Synod to sing Psalm 90:1, 8, and the Rev. M. van Beveren leads in closing prayer. Synod is adjourned.

GS 1980 ARTICLE 37 – Acts – Adjournment The Acts, Articles 28-35, are adopted. The Advisory Committees meet.

GS 1980 ARTICLE 36 – Re-opening – Remembrance Day The Chairman requests the brothers to sing Hymn 42:1. He reads from Revelation 5:1-10, leads in prayer and addresses the Synod with the following words:

GS 1980 ARTICLE 35 – Adjournment Elder F. Wildeboer requests that the brothers sing Psalm 119:13 and leads in closing prayer.

GS 1980 ARTICLE 34 – Proposals – Church Order Committee II presents a Majority and Minority Report. The Majority Report reads as follows: A.  Material –  B.  Observations C.  Considerations Since Synod 1980 (Acts, Article 19) decided to continue the Committee for the Revision of the Church Order with a mandate (in addition to the mandate…

GS 1980 ARTICLE 33 – Re-opening –  Acceptance of Rev. W.W.J. VanOene In the evening, Synod meets in plenary session. The Chairman requests that Psalm 119:9 be sung. A letter has been received from the Rev. W.W.J. VanOene in which he states that he has accepted his appointment as lecturer at the Theological College in…

GS 1980 ARTICLE 32 – Agenda – Adjournment The following letters have been received and are added to the Agenda: The meeting adjourns and the Advisory Committees meet.