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If two-thirds of classes approve, only a simple majority will be needed for any amendments that next year’s General Synod proposes in response to the Vision 2020 Team’s work.

Mission 2020, VP candidates, and a proposed change to voting protocal for Vision 2020 recommendations

Delegates nominated Phil Assink, Dale Buettner, Brad Kautz, and Patricia Sealy for the office of General Synod vice president.

General Synod celebrated the organization of three new RCA churches and 21 new congregation plans

“I promise to serve you, I promise to listen, I promise to speak in truth, obviously in the command of love,” he told delegates.

Affiliated churches get added to the Book of Church Order (pending classis approval), including the possibility of voting privileges at the classis level for ministers ordained in a partner denomination.

An RCA media channel and a paper on postmodernism are on the way, at the request of president James Nakakihara and affirmed by General Synod 2019.

Classes should be formed with the intentionality of including all gifts in the body of Christ.

“You all—we all—have made this a very, very different General Synod.” —Christa Mooi, Vision 2020 Team member

Sundays at General Synod are quieter days.