The time spent at General Conference is divided into two parts: legislative committees and plenary session. This is due to the vast amount of legislation that is sent into GC for consideration. The legislation is split among 13 different committees and once our committees are chosen when the legislation comes out sometime next January we will each specialize and report back to the rest of the delegation on the major issues. The different committees can be found here. The custom for deciding who will serve on each committee (at least this is how it is in Central Texas) starts with the head of the delegation picking and going down the line of delegates by order elected alternating lay and clergy.
The CTC GC delegates will be meeting by conference call next week to go through this process. I get to pick fifth and am currently working on a list of my top 5 choices, which is not as easy as it sounds because there are many areas of the church that I am very interested in. So please be in prayer as our delegation undergoes this time of discernment.
