As we published earlier the February meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod has been postponed to April, but there will be an informal meeting on Saturday 27 February. The timetable for this has been published today, and is copied below.
There will be no question time in February, but the Business Committee has agreed that members can submit questions for written answers only not later than 12 noon on Tuesday 16 February. Supplementary questions will not be taken at this informal meeting. The questions booklet will be circulated on Thursday 25 February.
INFORMAL MEETING OF SYNOD MEMBERS SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2021
10.30am Opening Worship
10.40am Introduction by the Chair of the Business Committee
10.50am Reflections from the Presidents
11.35am BREAK
12.00pm Worship
12.10pm Vision and Strategy
12.50pm Story of hope and salvation
1.00pm Voting Test
1.10pm LUNCH
2.00pm Story of hope and salvation
2.10pm Safeguarding update, including screen break
3.15pm Story of hope and salvation
3.25pm Archbishops’ Commission on Housing
4.10pm BREAK
4.30pm Story of hope and salvation
4.50pm Worship
5.00pm Close of meeting
I wonder if this Zoom session of the General Synod will be as lively and as entertaining as a Handforth Parish Council meeting?
Would be if some of us lay people were there!!!
Where is the Lament, Anger, Frustration, Despair which are echoed through the prophets, Lent and Holy Week, through the Psalms and through my experience – the journey towards hope and salvation surely passes through the valley of the shadow of death …
No time for questions, I see. Is ‘informal’ the new ‘tightly stage-managed’?
The graveyard slot after lunch would have been enlivened by the Wales v England game, but for the fact that kick-off is 1645hrs!