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Northeastern Conference Constituency Session Report

Trevor Baker

Larry Bailey

Ebenezer Agboka

The Northeastern Conference held its 25th regular constituency session (second quadrennial session) on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at Camp Victory Lake in Hyde Park, New York. The meeting convened at approximately 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Monday, June 9, with all items on the agenda completed.

Delegates at the session voted to return the three administrators to serve for the next quadrennial:

Trevor H. C. Baker, president
Larry Bailey, secretary
Ebenezer Agboka, treasurer

Language Coordinators voted by the delegates are:

Pierre Omeler - Haitian Ministries
José Burroughs - Hispanic/Portuguese Ministries

Departmental Directors voted by the delegates are:

Stacy Gordon - Adventist Book Center (ABC)
Fitzgerald Kerr - Adventist Community Services
Leroy Daley - Health Ministries
Oswald Euell - Personal Ministries
Lawrence Brown - Sabbath School/Religious Liberty
Daniel Honore - Stewardship/Trust Services
Mirielle St. Pierre - Women's Ministries
Jesse Bevel - Family Ministries
Nigel Lewis - Youth Ministries
Philip Wesley II - Youth Ministries Associate Director
Walton Rose - Ministerial
Sylvan Lashley - Education
Stephen Williams - Communication
Publishing/FHES - Referred to the executive committee

Members of the Northeastern Conference Executive Committee for the next quadrennial are:

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The delegates voted several changes to the conference's Constitution and Bylaws. However, changes of note are the following:

1. Beginning with the next quadrennial session the Organizing Committee will meet at least fourteen (14) days prior to the constituency meeting and will elect a Nominating Committee.

2. The Nominating Committee will meet seven days (7) prior to the constituency meeting.

3. In the breakdown of the Nominating Committe (which consists of at least ninteen (19) and not more than thirty-one (31) members in addition to the president of the Union or his designee serving as chairperson), each of the designated areas (there are 12) and language groups in the conference will be allotted at least one representative on the committee and one additional representative based on membership percentage.

Let us keep the Northeastern Conference administration, the departmental team, and committees in prayer as they move forward to complete the work of the Lord in their field.

Ednor A. P. Davison
Assistant to the President for Communication
Atlantic Union Conference
(978) 368-8333 ext. 3028