25th General Synod
Atlanta, Georgia
July 1 - July 5, 2005
Related Web Pages:
United Church of Christ General Synod web page
Christ Church's General Synod web page
Christ Church's 26th General Synod web page
Minutes of the 25th General Synod:
By clicking on this link, you can view The Official Minutes of the 25th General Synod. This will provide you with all of the adopted resolutions and more.
Prayer offered immediately following the Marriage Rights vote
at the 25th General Synod
by the Rev. John Thomas
General Minister and President of the UCC
"Lord Jesus, to you we live, to you we suffer, to you we die. Yours will we be in life and in death. Today, as in ancient Bethlehem, the hopes and fears of all the years are met in you. We give thanks for your presence during these days of prayer and discernment, and especially for your presence here this morning. We have felt your warm embrace, stilling us as we tremble with joy, with hope, with fear, with disappointment. Remind us that as we are tempted to run from each other, so too we run from you. We know that every choice confers a cost, so let us attend in the coming hours and days to those for whom this decision confers a particular burden. Let us find words that comfort rather than congratulate; let us seek to be a community of grace and forgiveness rather than organizing constituencies of protest, let us use our hands not to clap, but to wipe away every tear. And in all this may we know in surprising new ways the comfort of belonging to You. This is our prayer. Hear us, Lord Jesus. Amen."
27th General Synod
