A South Carolina Perspective
By Jessica Brodie
PORTLAND, Ore.—Legislative committees kicked their work into high gear at General Conference May 13, approving, amending, rejecting and merging hundreds of petitions that will go before the full body next week.
With the controversial Rule 44 rejected the day prior, the committees dove into their work the traditional way—and always with God at the fore.
After a morning worship that featured Bishop Sally Dyck of the North Central Jurisdiction’s Chicago Episcopal Area, the body heard the laity address, then spent the rest of the day in their separate committees reviewing their area’s petitions one by one.
Some of the work went smoothly, while other committees were rife with emotional displays and high-stress dialogue about many of the hot topic issues, such as human sexuality. One of the committee chairs, Church and Society 2 Chair the Rev. Morris Matthis, collapsed at the end of the day and had to be taken to the hospital, and as word spread, the other committees halted business to share a time of prayer for their brother in Christ. Read more here
