Convention Booklet 2025

• Workshops: There will be 4 workshops offered this year from 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. on Saturday: A Becoming Beloved Community: A Call to Action Workshop in the Mill Mountain Room; The Dream of God Workshop in the Buck Mountain Room; Practices of Growing Churches in our Diocese in the Monroe and Wilson Rooms. No pre-registration is required. See the back of this booklet for more information. • Saturday Evening Bluegrass Music: Bluegrass music provided by High Knob Ramblers, parishioners from Christ Church, Big Stone Gap will begin around 7:00 p.m. during dinner in the Roanoke Ballroom on Saturday night. Music is free and open to anyone who may wish to listen even if you’re not eating dinner. • Exhibit Hall: The Exhibit Hall will be in the Crystal Ballroom this year. This is the best and only appropriate place for parishes, institutions, non-profits, and others to offer handouts, solicitations, sharing information about parish ministries, and selling goods and services. Please contact John Shaner, Exhibit Hall Coordinator for more information at jshaner@salemva.gov. • Orientation for All Delegates: An orientation for all delegates will be held at the beginning of business on Friday, January 24 at 1:15 p.m. Chancellor Loftis and Canon Ames will review both the procedural and technical aspects of how to participate in Convention this year. • Substitutions of Alternates: Lay alternates who are listed on each parish’s Certificate of Election may serve as a substitute for a delegate if their rector (or senior warden) formally certifies the substitution with Convention Registrar Kristen Hester. Rectors (or senior wardens) may also email Kristen with certification changes in regard to delegate-alternates substitutions at khester@dioswva.org. • Business Session Seating: All business sessions will take place in the Roanoke Ballroom. Delegates and alternates may sit at the round tables. Visitors and guests may sit in the rows of seats along the back and sides of the room. Tables in the ballroom are to remain free of advertisements, solicitations, and handouts not otherwise distributed by Convention staff or volunteers. Alternates who are not actively checked in as “live” delegates for business may not participate in voice votes. • Convention Meals: The 3 major meals of Convention will take place in the Roanoke Ballroom at designated times in the agenda. The cost of all 3 meals (Friday dinner, Saturday lunch, and Saturday dinner) is included in the Convention registration fee. Color-coded meal tickets are included with each registered person’s nametag. Please present your ticket when going through the buffet line. All meals are buffets. Those with particular dietary restrictions will receive a special table tent at check-in. • Convention Committees : The Convention Committees including Constitution & Canons, Finance, and Resolutions will meet only as needed. If there are meetings, they will likely occur just after the end of business on Friday. Please contact Canon Pattie Ames if you have questions about these 3 committees. • Youth@Convention: Y@C will take at the St. John’s, Roanoke this year. For further information, please contact Canon Jenni Faires at jfaires@dioswva.org. • Commission on Ministry: Saturday lunch will be held in the Appalachian room. • Convention Announcements: Individuals or groups that wish to make specific announcements are invited to submit them in writing to Canon Pattie Ames at pames@dioswva.org. Timely submitted announcements with appropriate, streamlined content may be displayed on slides or verbally announced.

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