ONE HUNDRED FORTIETH COVENANT ANNUAL MEETING
June 26, 2025 – June 28, 2025
Each agenda item will be given the time necessary to ensure that it is fully addressed. Per Standing Rules the moderator shall take up agenda items to accommodate scheduling needs.
Delegates who leave the meeting early or arrive late will not have voice or vote when they are not present. Please do all you can to be present in person or online throughout the scheduled meeting. Agenda items that are time certain are listed below.
Registration is needed to participate in these sessions. Please register before the end of the business day on June 16, 2025. No registrations will be processed after this date.
Agenda
Time Certain (TBD)
- Irving Lambert Outstanding Urban Ministries Award
- Service Recognition for Global Personnel
- Clergy Lifetime Service Recognition
- Actions to Be Taken from the Ordered Ministry
- T.W. Anderson Outstanding Layperson Award
- FY2023/24 Performance Report
- FY2025 Mission and Ministry Budget
* Reports exceeding the ten (10) minute limit per the Standing Rules are marked with an asterisk.
PREPARING OUR HEARTS
1. Morning Worship
2. Opening Statement by the Moderator
3. Greeting from Catherine Gilliard, Southeast Conference Superintendent
ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING
4. Report on Credentials and Motion
5. Action on the Standing Rules of Order >>
6. Action on the Proposed Agenda
7. Approval of Honorary Delegates and Resource Personnel
MEMBERSHIP IN THE MISSION
8. Action on Churches Applying for Membership
9. Church Planter Commissioning
10. Action on Removal of Churches from the Roster*
a. Voluntary Removal from Membership
STATE OF THE MISSION
11. Report of the President*
SERVANT LEADERSHIP FOR THE MISSION
13. Board Elections*
a. Presentation of 2024 Ballot
a.1. Executive Board
a.2. Board of the Ordered Ministry
a.3. Board of Pensions and Benefits
a.4. Board of Covenant Ministries of Benevolence
a.5. Board of Trustees of North Park University
a.6. Board of Nominations
b. Vote
c. Results
14. Actions to Be Taken from the Ordered Ministry for 2025*
a. Approval of Licenses
b. Presentation of Candidates for Transfer of Ordination
c. Presentation of Candidates for Commissioning
d. Presentation of Candidates for Ordination to Word and Service
e. Presentation of Candidates for Ordination to Word and Sacrament
f. Change in Standing
HONORING FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE MISSION
15. Clergy Vocational Service Recognition
16. Service Recognition for Global Personnel
17. Recognition of Executive Board Members Concluding Term of Service
18. 2025 T.W. Anderson Outstanding Layperson Award
19. 2025 Irving Lambert Outstanding Urban Ministries Award
FUNDING THE MISSION
20. Financial Report*
a. Fiscal Year 2023/24 Performance Report
21. Presentation and Adoption of the Fiscal Year 2026 Mission and Ministry Budget*
22. Report from the Covenant Board of Pensions and Benefits
23. Report on 2024 Mission Advancement
DIMENSIONS OF THE MISSION
24. Mission and Ministry Leadership Report
25. Report from Centro Hispano de Estudios Teológicos (CHET)
26. Report from Covenant Ministries of Benevolence
27. Report from Covenant Trust Company
28. Report from National Covenant Properties
29. Report from North Park University
a. Report of the President of North Park University
b. Report of the Dean of North Park Theological Seminary
30. Report from Paul Carlson Partnership
31. Mission and Ministry Leadership Response to Delegate Questions
CONSENT AGENDA
36. Delegate Evaluation
37. Arrangements for the 2026 Annual Meeting
PREPARING TO GO FORTH IN MISSION
34. Approval of Minutes of the 140th Covenant Annual Meeting
35. Prayer for the Mission and Ministry of the Covenant
36. Report to Congregations
37. Closing Statement
a. Resolution of Sympathy
b. Resolution of Gratitude
38. Adjournment
39. Benediction
ANNUAL MEETING OFFICERS
- Moderator: Julia Sandstrom
- Vice Moderator: Carolyn Poterek
- Secretary: Mary Peterson
- Parliamentarian: Clarence Chan
- President: Tammy Swanson-Draheim
- Secretary of the Covenant: Dierdra Clark
- Assistant Secretary of the Covenant: Jorden Meyers
