This year’s gathering of Synod will begin with a Eucharist live streamed from St. James Cathedral. The organizers are looking for parishes to pre-record musical contributions for the service, ideally reflecting the theme “Love Thy Neighbour.” All submissions must be recorded in compliance with diocesan COVID-19 guidelines and comply with copyright permissions. If your parish would be interested in submitting a musical piece, email the Rev. Andrew MacDonald, honorary clerical secretary of Synod, at amac@stnicholasbirchcliff.comby Oct. 25 to get more details. Depending on the number of submissions, there may not be time to include all offerings, but they may be used in other musical moments and breaks during Synod.
Synod Membership
Has your parish recently modified its list of 2021 Synod members? If so, please contact us as soon as possible, so we can send the voting credentials needed to vote during Pre-Synod meetings and Synod to the appropriate email addresses.
Call for expressions of interest to serve on
Synod Council or one of its Committees
The Nominating Committee is looking for people across the Diocese who would like to serve on the Synod Council or one of its Committees should Synod approve the Governance Pilot Project.
The Synod Council would be an amalgamation of the Diocesan Council and the Executive Board. The Synod Council would generally exercise the executive powers of the Synod between sessions except those of a legislative character.
The Committees include:
Finance – provide financial and technology oversight.
Property – consider and make recommendations to parishes regarding their proposed significant capital projects and renovations and report on the same to Synod Council.
Human Resources – provide oversight support to the Synod Council on personnel policies and practices including succession planning, compensation and recruitment practices.
Risk & Governance – assist in identifying, mitigating, managing and accepting risk and assessing and ensuring appropriate governance structures of the Diocese are operating effectively. The Committee also reports on the disposition of real property, gifts, requests for grants, trusts, and major alterations to church property, fulfilling the statutory requirement for particular fiduciary oversight in some issues.
If you are interested or would like to nominate someone, please complete the Nomination Form and submit it to the Secretary of Synod at pboisvert@toronto.anglican.ca before October 20, 2021.
To learn more about the new governance proposal, see:
Have you missed one of our previous newsletters? Visit our 2021 Synod webpage and look for our past communications in the section called "Synod Newsletters".
We hope you have found this newsletter helpful. Another newsletter will be sent to you soon. In the meantime,send us your questions about 2021 Regular Synodand we will do our best to answer it in our next newsletter.
