Pre-Assembly Report

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Introduction

• Introduction to the Eleventh Churchwide Assembly
• Order of Business 
• Program Booklet
• Table of Contents - Replacement Pages: v-vi

I: General Information

• Preliminary Assembly Program
• Replacement Pages: 1-4
• Rules of Organization and Procedure
• Synopsis of Robert’s Rules of Order,
  Newly Revised
• Roll of Assembly Members
• Replacement Pages: 31-40

II: Reports of Officers

• Report of the Presiding Bishop
• Report of the Secretary
• Appendix A: Parochial Report Form A
• Appendix B: Roster Statistics
• Appendix C: Parochial Statistics
• Report of the Treasurer, Part 1
• Report of the Treasurer, Part 2
• Exhibit A: 2009 and 2008 Financial Statements

III: Reports of Churchwide Units

• Report of the Executive for Administration

1: Program Unit Reports

• Evangelical Outreach and Congregational Mission Unit
• Appendix A: Executive Summary of the Evangelism Strategy
• Appendix B: Lutheran Men in Mission
• Global Mission Unit
• Vocation and Education Unit
• Appendix A: Lutheran Youth Organization
• Church in Society Unit
• Multicultural Ministries Unit
• Publishing House of the ELCA
• Women of the ELCA

2: Service Unit Reports

• Communication Services
• Church Periodical: The Lutheran
• Development Services and the Foundation of the ELCA
• Appendix A: Comprehensive Campaign Feasibility Study—Executive Summary
• Mission Investment Fund
• Board of Pensions of the ELCA

3: Sections Related to the Offices

   Office of the Presiding Bishop

• Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations
• Appendix A: Lutheran World Federation
• Human Resources
• Research and Evaluation
• Synodical Relations
• Worship and Liturgical Resources

   Office of the Treasurer

• Information Technology
• Management Services

IV: Recommendations of the Church Council

• Election of Vice President
• Full communion with the United Methodist Church
• Funding of the HIV and AIDS Strategy
• Lutheran Malaria Initiative
• Social Statement: "Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust" and Implementing Resolutions for the Social Statement
• Ministry Policies
• Social Statement on Justice for Women
• Amendments to the ELCA Constitutions, Bylaws,and Continuing Resolutions
• 2010–2011 Budget Proposal

V: Other Assembly-Related Documents

• Report of the Communal Discernment Task Force
• Report on the ELCA Plan for Mission
• Report on Justice for Women
• Report on the Ethnic Ministries Strategies
• Report of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Mission Funding
• HIV and AIDS Strategy
• “Policies and Procedures for Addressing Social Concerns”
• “Vision and Expectations”
• Definitions and Guidelines for Discipline
• Summary of Rostered Ministry Policies and Processes in the ELCA
• Report and Recommendation on Ministry Policies
• "Confessing Our Faith Together: A Proposal for Full Communion between the ELCA and the UMC" 
• Replacement Pages: 123-130
• Response of the Conference of Bishops to CA07.06.34

VI: Report of the Memorials Committee

• Report of the Memorials Committee
• Replacement Pages: 45-46
• Replacement Pages: 73-74
• Replacement Pages: 83-84

VII: Report of the Nominating Committee

• Report of the Nominating Committee
• Replacement Pages: 1-2
• Replacement Pages: 9-10
• Replacement Pages: 15-18

VIII: Report of the Reference and Counsel Committee

• Pages to be distributed in the course of the assembly.

IX: Report of the Church Council

• Report of the Church Council

X: Governing Documents

• Governing Documents

XI: Other

• Presiding Bishop's Sermon for Opening Worship
• Presiding Bishop's Oral Report
• Report on Synod Assembly Actions
• 2009 LWF Greeting