{"id":17575,"date":"2018-03-28T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=17575"},"modified":"2018-03-28T17:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:46:43","slug":"what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-to-be-a-general-conference-delegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-to-be-a-general-conference-delegate\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect when you’re expecting to be a General Conference delegate"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rev. Mary K. Huycke<\/strong><\/h4>\n

General Conference is our denomination\u2019s ultimate legislative body. Being part of that deliberative process is a great honor, a fascinating experience, and a heavy responsibility. If you chose to run and are elected as a delegate, you\u2019ll head our team May 5-15, 2020 in Minneapolis, MN and serve as part of the support team for the Special Called Session of General Conference February 23-26, 2019 in St Louis, MO.<\/p>\n

General Conference days are long and demanding. Days start early, with your first meeting typically at 7am, and run late into the night. \u00a0Long days in committee meetings and plenary gatherings are fueled by incredible worship and amazing connections with other United Methodists from around the world. You will be stretched, challenged, and, at times, exasperated by the business of the gathering.<\/p>\n

Your work will begin soon after the election at the\u00a02018 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference Session<\/a>\u00a0this June, as pre-conference materials for the Special Session starts to arrive, primarily through electronic means. You\u2019ll study and evaluate the legislation and related background information. Following our Annual Conference Session in 2019, materials will arrive for the 2020 General Conference. You\u2019ll meet face-to-face with the others elected to our PNW delegation several times prior to each of the General Conference Sessions. In addition, delegates from the Western Jurisdiction periodically gather electronically to confer.<\/p>\n

Your responsibility doesn\u2019t end with General Conference 2020. \u00a0Part of your responsibility is preparing and coordinating the PNW delegation to the Western Jurisdiction Conference, July 15-18, 2020. The primary work there is the election of at least two new bishops. Western Jurisdiction representatives to the General Boards and Agencies will be chosen, and your name will be part of the pool of those considered.<\/p>\n

Between 2020-2024, you, as our clergy or our lay delegate, will serve on the Western Jurisdiction Episcopacy Committee, meeting once a year in locations throughout the Jurisdiction and serving on one or more sub-committees. This group provides support and oversight to our episcopal leaders in the west. And finally, you\u2019ll be part of preparing our Annual Conference for petitions and the election of the 2024 delegation.<\/p>\n

Leadership at this level is a serious commitment. Delegates help shape not only the rules of our Church, but our culture. It is hard, but fulfilling work. We invite clergy and lay members of the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference into a time of discernment. Is this you? If not, then who?<\/p>\n

Click here to learn more about this year’s General Conference Nominations Process.<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Mary Huycke<\/strong> serves as superintendent for the Seven Rivers District. She is also the first elected\u00a0clergy person\u00a0to General Conference from the PNW and serves as chair of the Western Jurisdiction Episcopacy Committee.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pacific Northwest Conference is planning to elect its delegates for the 2020 United Methodist General Conferences during its Annual Conference at the Showplex Center in Puyallup on June 22-24, 2018. Rev. Mary Huycke provides this overview of what you are signing up for if elected to serve as a clergy or lay delegate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":12574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[245,449,460],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-annual-conference","8":"category-general-conference","9":"category-the-pacific-northwest-conference"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mary-and-marie.jpg?fit=1184%2C618&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-4zt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17579,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions\/17579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}