• In the coming weeks, we will be emailing you each Thursday - sharing new materials and updates to help you be well prepared for our one-day assembly.
• In order to keep our correspondence out of your spam folder, please be sure to mark this email sender as "safe" in your email system!
• All materials will also be uploaded to our Assembly Webpage as they become available: www.lutheransnw.org/synod-assembly.
• Our Assembly Guidebook App will be available by May 19.

• During the assembly, we will be electing a Synod Vice President, a Synod Secretary, and 4 members to the Synod Council
• Find and review the Nominee Bios HERE
• You will note that we do not have nominees for one of our council positions - a man who is a person of color (or whose primary language is other than English). While our nominating committee had excellent suggestions, those persons declined to allow their names to go forward this year.
• The committee is continuing to pursue addional leads.
• You are also invited to help identify nominees for these positions.
• Reach out to the Nominating Committee Chair, Pr. Katy McCallum Sachse HERE
• Floor Nominations: Additionally, according to our proposed standing rules, you now have the opportunity to nominate yourself or any member of the synod “from the floor” for any position. 
• ALL nominations are due by May 21 online HERE.

• We recieved two resolutions by the May 1st deadline for the assembly to consider.
• The Reference and Counsel Committee is reviewing them and preparing to share them in next Thursday's email. Stay tuned!

• May 16 at 6pm - Hearing for the two submitted resolutions
• May 23 at 6pm - Orientation Session Via Zoom
• May 25 at 6pm - Synod Budget Hearing Via Zoom
• We will send the Zoom links for these sessions in a future Thursday email!

• Reach out to Susan in the Synod Office

• Thank you for serving as a voting member to this assembly.
• We appreciate you!