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GS 2025 - Provisional Acts

May 21, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

The Provisional Acts of GS 2025 have been uploaded. Note that this version of the Acts is not final but still provisional. A final version will be published once all work on editing the acts and prepping them for hard-copy publication has been completed.

Rev. Mark ten Haaf accepts call to Arthur

May 21, 2025 Edmonton (Providence) Calgary Arthur Rev. Mark ten Haaf

Rev. Mark ten Haaf of the Providence Canadian Reformed Church in Edmonton has accepted the call to the Arthur Canadian Reformed Church and has declined the call to the Canadian Reformed Church at Calgary.

GS 2025: Closed

May 16, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

Following a marathon session this afternoon, General Synod was declared closed on May 16, 2025, at 4:00pm.
Please be advised that Acts will be published when they are ready for provisional publication, which will likely be in the course of early next week.

GS 2025: Friday Morning May 16

May 16, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

GS 2025 will meet, DV, in plenary session open to the public during the morning of Friday May 16. The session begins at 9:00am. Items of business include: SCBP (Expansion BoP), SCBP (LS Forms, phrase "Summarized in the Confessions" in Liturgical Forms, Infant Baptism Form, Ecclesiastical Route, PCA, Guest Preachers…

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GS 2025: Thursday Evening May 15

May 15, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

GS 2025 will meet, DV, in plenary session open to the public during the evening of Thursday May 15. The session begins at 7:00pm and the plan is to go until all agenda items ready have been dealt with. Items of business include: Hymn Cap, SCBP Report (administrative), SCBP mandate…

May 14, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

GS 2025 will meet in plenary sessions open to the public during the evening of May 14 (7:00-9:00pm) and the morning of May 15 (9:00am-done). Items of business include: Hymn Cap, SCBP Report (administrative), Liturgical Forms Questions, Shortening General Synod, Guest Preachers from non-sister churches, Interchurch Relations Indonesia, Form for…

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GS 2025: Provisional Acts

May 14, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

The provisional acts of GS 2025, May 6 through 10 have been posted.

Please note that these acts are PROVISIONAL and not official. Official acts of all sessions will not be published until after Synod's completion.

GS 2025: Tuesday May 13 Evening session

May 13, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

The next plenary session of GS 2025 will be this Tuesday (May 13) evening. Items for business include: CO 55 (songs), Hymn Cap, CRTS (Seminary), Creed Footnote, Days of Commemoration, Modernization of Hymn language, Composition General Synod, inter church relations (URCNA, NAPARC, ICRC, FRCSA, RPCNA, RPCC, ARPC, Indonesia) GS officers…

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GS 2025: Tuesday morning May 13 session

May 13, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

This morning (Monday May 13) GS 2025 will be meeting in plenary session. It will include a closed session for items earlier in the session. Business includes: Needy Theological Students funding, Confidential Appeals, and interchurch relations (ERQ, KAPC-K, KPCK, URCNA, FCS, FCC). This session of general synod will not be…

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GS 2025: Monday evening May 12 session

May 12, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

This evening (Monday May 12) GS 2025 will be meeting in plenary session open to the public. Business includes: overtures on CO 55 (songs), overture on Apostles' Creed footnote, overture on CO 49 (composition general synod), appeal re Days of Commemoration, appeal re Lord's Supper Forms, and Needy Theological Students…

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Rev. Rodney Vermeulen declines call to Dunnville West

May 12, 2025 Dunnville West Attercliffe Rev. Rodney Vermeulen

Rev. Rodney Vermeulen of Attercliffe Canadian Reformed Church has declined the call extended to him by the Dunnville West Canadian Reformed Church.

Rev. Rodney Vermeulen declines call to Smithville

May 12, 2025 Smithville Attercliffe Rev. Rodney Vermeulen

Rev. Rodney Vermeulen of Attercliffe Canadian Reformed Church has declined the call extended to him by the Smithville Canadian Reformed Church.

Rev. Jeff Temple declines call to Riverside ARP

May 12, 2025 Hamilton (Providence) Dr. Jeff Temple

Rev. Jeff Temple of Providence Canadian Reformed Church has declined the call extended to him by the Riverside Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (Cambridge, ON).

Rev. Jeff Temple declines call to Aldergrove

May 12, 2025 Hamilton (Providence) Aldergrove Dr. Jeff Temple

Rev. Jeff Temple of Providence Canadian Reformed Church has declined the call extended to him by the Aldergrove Canadian Reformed Church.

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GS 2025: Livestream

May 12, 2025 Aldergrove 2025

GS 2025 sessions will no longer be livestreamed. At the discretion of the chairman (and the synod as a whole) it will be determined which sessions will be open to the public in-person (which would be most).