Greetings to each of you in The Diocese of West Tennessee. Today is the first legislative day, although much has gone on in preparation for today over the last 24 hours. There are roughly 25 legislative committees of the General Convention, each of which is assigned various resolutions that have been filed prior to Convention, in addition to those that have been filed on site. I haven't counted total resolutions as of late, but the last time I did, there were close to 300 that had been filed. So in order for there to be legislation to consider during these early days of Convention, the legislative committees have been working diligently to perfect, table, or combine with other like resolutions.
Two of the West Tennessee deputation were assigned to be members of legislative committees: Reynolds Cheney, Structure, and Rene Somodevilla, Ministry. Bishop Johnson was assigned to Dispatch of Business in the House of Bishops. In addition, each member of the West Tennessee deputation is monitoring other legislative committees, and they will report back to the entire deputation on the resolutions coming out of those committees so that the deputation will be informed when it comes time for legislative votes in the House of Deputies.
It has been an extremely busy convention thus far, and there never seems to be much time to let your hair down or reflect on the events of the day, not to mention eat or sleep. Committee meetings start at 7 a.m. and often meet again late into the evening in order to prepare for the next day's work.
The afternoon sessions are about to begin, so I will close for now. In my next blog, I'll try to give you a description of what it's like to observe the House of Deputies in action. On behalf of all the deputation, we send our best wishes to each of you at home.
Stephanie
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