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the governing body of the church in wales

At the Arts Hall, University of Wales, Lampeter, on Tuesday and Wednesday 18 and 19 September 2007.

 

Agenda - Day 1

Lunch from 12.30, meeting starts at 14.00

1. Prayers and Bible Reading
2. The due execution of the President’s Mandate will be certified
3. Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of the Governing Body held on 11 and 12 April 2007
4. Matters arising on the Minutes (if any)
5. Welcome to the Representatives of Cytûn and other churches.
6. Reports of the Standing Committee
   
   Report of the Standing Committee
   
   

   • The recommendations of the Committee set out at the end of the Report will be moved.

7. Report on St Michael’s College, Llandaff
   
   Motion That the Governing Body:
   1. endorse the recommendation of the Bench of Bishops to retain and develop St Michael’s College as a training institution for the Church in Wales;
   2. recognise that St Michael’s College has a role in training those from other Anglican Provinces, and in working with our ecumenical partners;
   3. invite the Representative Body to provide financial support for the College based on the proposals contained within the Bench of Bishops report to the Governing Body for the duration of the implementation of the Development Plan and to work with the College to find the most effective way of so doing.
8. The Anglican Communion – short introduction by the Archbishop which he wants entitled “NOT the President’s Address.
   
   Motion: That the Governing Body:
   1. note the process taking place designed to produce a covenant for the Anglican Communion and that such a process will only be concluded when any definitive text
      has been duly considered through the synodical processes of the provinces of the Communion; and
   2. invite the Bench of Bishops to finalise a response to the draft from the Covenant Design Group for submission to the Anglican Communion Office by the end of the year.
9. Question Time
   
   Questions
   
   
10. Evening Prayer (Chapel, 17.45)
    
    Dinnner 18.30
    
    
11. Workshops 20.00
    1. Representative Body Accounts
    2. Clergy Terms of Service
    3. Constitution 
    4. Anglican Communion

Day Two

12. Celebration of the Holy Eucharist (Chapel) 07.30
    
    Breakfast 08.00-09.00
    
    
13. Report of the Representative Body including the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2006 (link to PDF file, 720k)
    
    Motions:
    • That the Report of the Representative Body be approved.
    • That Chapter X of the Constitution be amended to provide for net rental income from parsonages in a diocese to be credited to the Diocesan Parsonage Board Account of that  Diocese.
14. Membership and Finance Report
    
    Motion:
    
    
    • That the Governing Body do take note of this Report.
15. Report of Trinity College, Carmarthen
    
    Motion:
    • That the Report of Trinity College, Carmarthen, be received.
      
16. Experimental Order for the Ministry to the Sick and Housebound
    
    Covering Note
    
    Motion:
    
    

    •           That pursuant to Section 1 of the Canon for experimental use of proposed revisions of the Book of Common Prayer provisionally approved by the Bench of Bishops promulgated on 29 September 1955, the Governing Body hereby assent to the experimental use for a period not exceeding ten years of the form of Order for the Ministry to the Sick and Housebound  dated  July 2007.

17. Report of the Constitution Working Group
    
    Motion: That the Governing Body welcome the Report from the Constitution Working Group and accept:
    
    
    1. The principle of the division of most Chapters into principal text and regulations and the general format of the model draft in particular:
       • the inclusion of the regulations immediately after the 
         text of each chapter and
       • the difference in numbering between the provisions of
         the principal text and those of the regulations.
    2. The procedure for making and amending Regulations.
    3. The grouping of subject matter.
    4. The proposal that the Bill producing the amended Constitution should contain proposals limiting the requirement for bill procedure in the future.
18. Annual Report of the Widows, Orphans and Dependants Society
    
    Motion:
    
    
    • That the Governing Body do take note of this Report.
19. Presentation from Wrexham High School
20. Date and Place of Next Meeting
    • The Governing Body has decided that the next Ordinary Meeting be held on 2 and 3 April 2008 at the University of Wales, Lampeter.