Committee Sets Convention Agenda
Diocesan Press Service. May 29, 1970 [87-11]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Some of the busiest people at the 63rd General Convention of the Episcopal Church may turn out to be the Bishops, priests and laymen who have been recommended to serve as Work Committee chairmen.
The Agenda Committee making plans for the Convention to be held in Houston, Tex., October 11 to 22, will propose a schedule for the first week which calls for legislative sessions in the morning and an Assembly on Convention Issues each afternoon.
The Assembly would be followed by work group sessions from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in which Bishops, Deputies, delegates to the Women's Triennial Meeting and additional representatives would participate.
Seventy work groups are planned with a chairman for each.
Evening sessions during the first week, with the exception of Thursday, October 15, would be given over to open hearings by committees and other committee meetings.
Thursday evening has been set aside for the Presiding Bishop's Evening at the Symphony, one of the Convention's principal social events.
A training session for Work Committee chairmen will be held all day Saturday, October 10, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Bennett.