Most of the Mississippi Deputation gathers on the floor of the House of Deputies.

By the time you read this I will be headed home and GC2015 will be winding down or over. Thursday was a LONG day on the House of Deputies floor, and people were getting a little punchy. The audible groans whenever someone offered an amendment, asked for a moment of personal privilege, or echoed their support for something that had already been endorsed in the same terms by several others were growing louder by the hour.

Some really good stuff happened in between all that. The Reverend Canon Frank Logue of Georgia managed a brilliant budget move, resolving we put in over 5 million dollars for new church plants and Hispanic ministries. It required raising our endowment draw from 5 to 5.5 percent. The idea had been approved previously but the budget was not there until this change. The bishops concurred – this is great news for our evangelism efforts. As one fellow tweeter said – go big or go home. We can’t be afraid to spend money on evangelism. These two efforts will go a long way.

Most of the other resolutions were no brainers or simply were concurring with action from the bishops. I was pleased with how most of the turned out.

I have dearly loved being here, seeing old friends, and hanging out with the fabulous deputation from Mississippi. It’s back to the daily grind but we leave Gc2015 behind knowing some monumental things took place for our church here.

Thanks for reading.

David+