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 Official acts of all sessions will not be published until after Synod's completion.

Synod will meet, DV, on Saturday from 9:00am-1:00pm, of which roughly half in plenary (= everyone present). The order of business includes a number of items that have to be dealt with in closed session. There is no telling how long this will take. There is thus no guarantee that…

There will be no livestreamed session this evening as synod members will be meeting in advisory committees.

Synod will reconvene in public session at 7:00pm. Tonight's order of business includes a speeches by a fraternal delegates followed by discussion on some or all of the following topics: Interchurch Relations (general mandate, Rules for Ecclesiastical Relations, RPCNA, OPC), Apostles' Creed footnote, General Fund, Committee Term Lengths, Practicum Theological…

To view individual speeches to GS 2025 by fraternal delegates and observers, click here.

On Tuesday May 6, General Synod 2025 decided to establish sister church relations with the Reformed Churches (Gereformeerde Kerken) in The Netherlands. We give thanks to the Lord for His continued faithfulness in preserving for Himself a people seeking to be faithful to His Word and Will.

Synod will reconvene in public session at 7:00pm. Tonight's order of business includes some speeches by various fraternal delegates and observers followed by discussion on some or all of the following topics: 6th professor, Address Church, Archives, Bible Translation, Website, Days of Prayer, Interchurch Relations (general mandate).
The evening's proceedings…