The papers relating to the next Representative Synod can be downloaded below. These papers are normally available about three weeks before the Synod meets. Please select the paper you require from the list of attachments below.

Attachments:

File	File size
District_Development_Plan_2012-15.pdf	427 Kb
Nominations_are_invited_for_Synod_elected_Reps_to_the_District_Council.pdf	195 Kb
2012_-_Representative_Synod_Report.pdf	1228 Kb
Deferred_Special_Resolution_-_Synod_2012.pdf	73 Kb
Deferred_Special_Resolution_Advice_Note.pdf	150 Kb

Policy statements adopted by the Synod can be downloaded below.

Attachments:

File	File size
District Development Plan 2010-12.pdf	0 Kb
A common purpose and vision.pdf	0 Kb

The constitution below should be read in conjunction with Standing Order 410 of the Constitutional Practice and Discipline of the Methodist Church. The numbers of lay representatives and lay employees entitled to attend Synod is currently under review and the District Council will bring recommendations to a future Synod.

Currently the Representative Session of the District Synod consists of the following people:

• The Vice-President, if relevant, and all ex-Vice-Presidents of the Methodist Conference in membership in the District

• All ministers, deacons and probationers stationed in the District, all ministers and deacons residing for the purposes of the stations in the District, and any other minister, deacon or probationer entered in the stations as a member of Synod.

• One circuit steward of each Circuit in the District (or a substitute) elected by the Circuit Meeting

• Lay representatives or their substitutes, elected by the Circuit Meeting of each Circuit in the District, the total number for each Circuit being determined by the Synod; at present, two more than the ministerial establishment listed in the Minutes of Conference.

• All members of the District Policy Committee

• The Secretary of the Synod

• The District Treasurer

• The District Property Secretary

• The Lay Representative, if appointed, to the Methodist Council

• The District Lay Stationing Representative

• The Training Officer

• The District Development Enabler

• Representatives to Connexional Committees, as relevant

• Representatives to Regional Committees, as relevant

• All persons elected by the Synod to attend the last preceding meeting of the Methodist Youth Conference

• Conference-elected lay representatives to the Methodist Conference

• All lay representatives elected by the Synod to both the last preceding and the next following Methodist Conference

• Such lay District Officers as the Synod may determine

• All eligible lay workers, lay evangelists, youth workers and community workers, appointed in the District under Standing Orders 405, 491(b), 570, 571 or 572

• Synod-elected lay members in numbers determined by the Synod

Any member of the Methodist Church or representative of an ecumenical partner is welcome to attend Synod as an observer.