10:29am... the fifth vote for laity came through with one delegate elected. beth morris who had 134 votes, with a needed number of 134. apparently the morning vote was a low turnout of people. one more delegate to go.
on the agenda today is the youth report. so after the report and the election of our last delegate, i'm going home to bed. this running from mission experience, to youth annual conference (which was cool, i led a workshop on servant leadership & we had three youth elected to office), now to annual conference.. gavin is tired.
before that though i might spend my rei dividend.
10:36am... jurisdictional election results for clergy coming in. one election, harriet bryan. Whoa!! vin walkup, whom i have the greatest amount of respect for, is giving a great testimony of his commitment to the conference and asking those voting for him to vote for other persons who can give leadership for the coming years. i wonder what this will do with the clergy vote.. i might just have to hang around now.
11:28am... we just finished up the youth and camping reports. this is my fav part as obviously i am heavily involved in the youth ministries of the conference. johnathan put together the highlights video which was well done and touching. seeing many of the kids i've been with over the years. the youth ministry institute was recognized as well, my new friends in the ministry, whether it be my mentee or retreat friends.. the camping report came after that. having my position as conference youth coordinator i am a member of the camping committee. we have spent the last two years putting together changes in programming and focus for our camping ministries. it was great to be at a point where we could recognize our new staff members and vision.
1:47pm... we return from luch to hear the results of the laity vote #6. no election. different from the prior ballots the bishop has posted a list of youth and young adults that are on the ballot for election. i am not part of that as i am a few years too old for young adult consideration. this process is taking so long i wonder if we will ever get done our jurisdicional candidates and alternates.
2:20pm... we are currently listening to the bishop give the state of the church address. a couple of things he is doing is proping some books, restoring methodism, something by bishop schnase, & the life journal. he just went through the online life journal which mark did a tremendous amount of work to get rolling smoothly, he propped the banner (but no props to me eventhough i made it a few years ago).
2:59pm... the latest clergy vote has come in without an election. we continue to have invalid votes which i don't understand. if you don't want to vote some particular person in, atleast vote someone who doesn't stand a chance (ala. yourself) and then the vote for a legitimate candidate will be valid.
a laity vote came in... some 12 invalid votes.. various reasons. red pen, wrong numbers, voting people who were already voted for. no election. opel ransom got 140 votes (156 needed), a big drop off after that. they keep screwing up the display of all votes. i'm interested to see if there is an increase in the youth adult vote.... okay, that is up now, no real improvement. i drop to 2 votes. gee, not even my friends are voting for me. think it is time to head home. &:~)
6:51pm... we finally had an election for the last of our gc laity delegation. opal ransom. ran away with the voting. our closest young adult was 134 votes away from getting elected. as one looks at the laity voting we had a struggle between the friends of our conservative lay leader and those who are middle of the road or somewhat progressive.
7:02pm... we almost had an election for clergy delegates for jurisdiction.. max mayo recieved 75 of a needed 76 votes.
