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2005 Southeastern Minnesota Synod Assembly
Called Into God's Marvelous Light...Today!

Proposed Agenda

Friday, May 6
7:30 a.m. Registration opens
8:30 a.m. Opening Worship
Bishop Usgaard, preaching
10 a.m. First Plenary
10:45 a.m. Bible Study
Dr. Richard P. Carlson, Professor of Biblical Studies, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
Noon Report of the Presiding Bishop of the ELCA, Part One
Kathryn Sime, Director, ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Appeal
12:30 p.m. Box lunches and conference caucuses
1:30 p.m. Second Plenary
2 p.m. Keynote
Bishop Margaret Payne, New England Synod, Chair of the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality
3:15 p.m. Report of the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality
Bishop Margaret Payne, Chair of the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality
4 p.m. Second Plenary, continued
5 p.m. Deadline for Nominations and Budget Changes
6 p.m. Picnic Supper
Saturday, May 7
8 a.m. Registration opens
8:30 a.m. Morning prayer
9 a.m. Report of the ELCA, Part Two
Kathryn Sime, Director, ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Appeal
9:30 a.m. Panel: "Unity in the Midst of Differences"
Featuring Congressman Tim Penny; Pastor and Minnesota Senate Minority Leader Dean Johnson; and Minnesota Speaker of the House Steve Sviggum
11 a.m. Third Plenary
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Fourth Plenary
Report of the Bishop, Southeastern Minnesota Synod
4 p.m. Closing of the Assembly