Synod Albany 2021 was convened on the evening of Monday 14th June 2021, with a public prayer service in the Free Reformed Church of Albany.
Synod was closed during the evening session on Wednesday 23rd June 2021.
The Moderamen for Synod were:
- Chairman: Rev H Alkema
- Vice Chairman: Rev R Bredenhof
- First Clerk: Elder B Veenendaal
- Second Clerk: Rev W Bredenhof
Documents
FINAL ACTS OF SYNOD
The final (published) version of the Acts of Synod is available as a single PDF file:
Press Releases
A press release was published after Synod closed:
- Press Release (posted 24-06-2021)
Deputies Reports
All Reports:
These portions of appendix 7 from the report from "Deputies - Training for the Ministry" were inadvertently missed from the Deputies Report:
- Appendix 7 - Regulations for the Financial Aid of Students (144KB PDF document, updated 17 May 2021)
- Appendix 7 - Financial Assistance for Theology Students from Deputies (173KB PDF document, posted 17 May 2021)
Links to Individual Reports:
- General Secretary's Report
- Deputies FRCA Website
- Overall Deputies' Report for Interchurch Relations - outside Australia
- The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated)
- The DGK and GKN
- Free Reformed Churchs of South Africa
- Kosin Presbyterian Church of Korea
- First Evangelical Reformed Church of Singapore (FERC)
- Canadian Reformed Churches (CanRC)
- United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA)
- Orthodox Presbyterian Church
- Reformed Churches of New Zealand
- Report of deputies for the Indonesian Churches
- I. The Reformed Churches in Indonesia (GGRI)
- II. The Calvinist Reformed Churches (GGRC)
- III. The Reformed Churches in Indonesia - Timor (GGRI-T)
- IV. GGRI - Theological Training
- Standing Committee for the Australian Book of Praice
- Deputies - Training for the Ministry
- Committee for Contact with the EPC and SPC
- Deputies Article 48 CO
- Deputies for Church Order Article 66: Days of Prayer
- Indexing Synod Decisions - Deputies' Report to FRCA Synod 2021
- Deputies - Synod Archives - Reports to Synod Albany 2021
- Report on Archives and Library of Synod
- Nominating Authorities - Marriage Act 1961
- Synod Financial Audit
- Inspection of Synod Archives
Delegates
Photos of the delegates are shown below, and were taken by Mathilde Mulder.
All Delegates
back row: Elder J Plug, Rev P Archbald (RCNZ), Rev AC Pol, Rev A Hagg, Elder W Pleiter, Elder J Lewis, Rev R Pot, Elder H Faas, Elder H Ballast, Rev D Poppe
front row: Elder P Witten, Elder S Thompson, Rev RD Anderson, Rev R Bredenhof, Rev H Alkema, Rev W Bredenhof, Elder B Veendendaal, Elder H van der Linde, Rev R Eikelboom
front row: Elder P Witten, Elder S Thompson, Rev RD Anderson, Rev R Bredenhof, Rev H Alkema, Rev W Bredenhof, Elder B Veendendaal, Elder H van der Linde, Rev R Eikelboom
Officers of Synod
Elder B Veendendaal (First Clerk), Rev R Bredenhof (Vice-Chairman), Rev H Alkema (Chairman), Rev W Bredenhof (Second Clerk)