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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 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…

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…

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…

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 Official acts of all sessions will not be published until after Synod's completion.

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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).

Synod will reconvene, DV, in public session at 9:00am on Monday morning, May 12. The order of business includes speeches by fraternal delegates from Australia and South Africa. Topics for discussion will be Ecumenical Relations. GS 2025 will also be welcoming all students from Credo Christian High School in the…

The provisional acts of GS 2025, May 6,7,8 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.