Save the date for online Synod

A day-long online LCA Convention of General Synod will be held on 18 October 2025.

The special convention will address business referred and deferred from the 21st Regular Convention of General Synod held in Adelaide in October 2024. No new business will be able to be added to the agenda.

Delegates at the online meeting will be tasked with considering and approving a doctrinal statement on ordination, as resolved by Synod in 2024. This statement has been prepared by the LCA’s Commission on Theology and Inter-Church Relations as directed by Synod and will also be addressed by an online General Pastors Conference prior to the special convention.

Other ‘unfinished business’ from October 2024 scheduled to be addressed are proposals to accept the full participation of Specific Ministry Pastors; adopt changes to church complaints handling, appeals and discipline processes; and continue the Hidden Hurts Healing Hearts Domestic and Family Violence Awareness campaign; as well as that any alternate Synod delegates from another parish are to be lay members.

Delegates will be contacted soon with further information.