{"id":1170,"date":"2014-05-01T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T21:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2014-05-11T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T15:38:14","slug":"proposed-constitutional-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/proposed-constitutional-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Constitutional Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18, we&#8217;ll be having our biannual congregational meeting to elect next year&#8217;s council.&nbsp; Additionally, we will be voting on some proposed changes to our current constitution.&nbsp; You can find both the current language and the proposed changes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/bethel-lutheran-church-constitution-bylaws\/\">here<\/a>, as well as a snapshot immediately below this post:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the officers of the Council are defined as the president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer (current language in C12.01 and c13.01 is otherwise redundant)<\/li>\n<li>lay Council make-up is changed from being comprised of these 4 officers and the various committee chairs to these 4 officers and 5 at-large members (this allows for more flexibility in forming the Council as well as the various congregational ministries)<\/li>\n<li>references to &#8220;congregation committees and ministries&#8221; are changed to &#8220;congregation ministries, teams, and committees&#8221; (this better reflects current practice)<\/li>\n<li>ministries\/teams\/committees are specifically allowed to organize in whatever manner they find most effective (this better reflects current practice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18, we&#8217;ll be having our biannual congregational meeting to elect next year&#8217;s council.&nbsp; Additionally, we will be voting on some proposed changes to our current constitution.&nbsp; You can find both the current language and the proposed changes here, as well as a snapshot immediately below this post: the officers of the Council are &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/proposed-constitutional-changes\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-blc_admin","4":"post-1170","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}