Agenda: 2025 Annual Conference
Day 1 - Tuesday, May 13, 2025
9:30 am – Ordination and Commissioning Rehearsal in Key Ballroom
8:30 am –AC Registration opens. Key Ballroom Level for Clergy and Holiday Ballroom Level for Laity
10:00 am-11:00 am – Pre-Conference Workshop – New Member Orientation - Holiday 4, 5 & 6
10:30 am- 1:00 pm – Retirement RECEPTION and LUNCHEON (By Invitation Only) Location – Tubman A & B – 3rd floor
12:30 pm -1:00 pm – UMM and UWiF Prayer Time for AC in Key & Holiday Ballrooms
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm – Dialogue Session: Restructuring for Vitality
3:00 pm – Clergy Executive Session in Key Ballroom
Laity Session in Holiday Ballroom 4-6
5:30 pm – Dinner
General Dinner – Holiday 6
BWARM/MFSA Dinner – Holiday 4 & 5
Appointment Beyond the Local Church Dinner – Tubman A & B
7:00 pm – Opening of Annual Conference in Worship – Celebration in Key Ballroom
Remembrance of Baptism and an Offering to support Just Neighbors (ILJN)
Day 2 - Wednesday, May 14, 2025
6:45 am - 8:15 am – General Seating BREAKFAST in Holiday Ballroom 6
Wesley/Nexus Buffet Breakfast in Tubman A
8:15 am – Gathering Music begins in Key Ballroom
8:30 am – 9:25 am – BIBLE STUDY Session by Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi in Key Ballroom
9:30 am – HOLY CONFERENCING – Plenary Session in Key Ballroom
Call to Order by Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, Presiding
Greetings by Host DS and Special Guests
Voting Devices Instructions/Demo by GNTV
Organizational Motion – Mr. Kevin Silberzahn, Conference Secretary
Rules Review - Rev. Dr. Mark Gorman, Rules Committee Chairperson
PRESENTATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND VOTING
Rev. Ianther Mills and Cynthia Taylor, delegation chairs
PRESENTATION OF RESOLUTIONS
12-1:30 pm – General Seating LUNCH in Holiday Ballroom 6
Service of Remembrance Meal with Families – Tubman A & B – 3rd floor
Wesley Seminary Alumni Lunch – Holiday 4
1:45 pm – Service of Remembrance – with Guest Preacher, Rev. Herbert A. Brisbon, III
3:30 pm – HOLY CONFERENCING – Plenary Session in Key Ballroom
APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR (ORDER OF THE DAY)
BOOM Report by Revs. Paul Johnson and Amanda McMurtrey, Co-Chairs
Historical Questions Examination
Resolutions
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm – General Seating DINNER in Holiday Ballroom 6
BMCR Dinner in Holiday Holiday 4 & 5
7:00 pm – HOLY CONFERENCING – Plenary Session in Key Ballroom
Reports of Missional Action Plan
Discipleship Council Report by Kristal Neale, Chairperson
7:30 pm – Celebration of Ministries Worship Service
Day 3 - Thursday, May 15, 2025
6:00 am – Blueprint for Wellness Screening in the Diamond Restaurant Holiday side 1st floor
6:45 am-8:15 am – General Seating BREAKFAST in Holiday Ballroom 6
CRC Breakfast with Retiring Clergy in Poe A
Hispanic-Latino Ministry Breakfast in Tubman B
8:15 am – Gathering Music in the Key Ballroom
8:30-9:25 am – BIBLE STUDY Session by Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi, in Key Ballroom
9:30 am – HOLY CONFERENCING
Laity Address
STEWARDSHIP REPORTS
- Wespath Presentation on Compass
- Council on Finance and Administration
- Board of Pensions
- Equitable Compensation Commission
Reports on Closed Church Resolutions by District Superintendents
Committee on Nominations
12 noon - 1:30 pm – General Seating LUNCH in Holiday Ballroom 6
Order of Deacons Luncheon in Tubman B
UMM and UMF Luncheon in Holiday 4 & 5
Living Well Alumni Luncheon in Tubman A
1:30 pm – HOLY CONFERENCING
Fixing of Appointments
MOTION TO RECEIVE ALL REPORTS PRIOR TO CLOSING – (ORDER OF THE DAY)
Closing Motion by Kevin Silberzahn, Conference Secretary
3:00 pm – Clergy Robing room – Holiday 5
3:00 pm – Ordinand & Commissioner Robing room – Holiday 4
4:00 pm – Ordination and Commissioning Worship Service in Key Ballroom with Guest Preacher, Bishop Moore-Koikoi. Offering to support Clergy Renewal Fund
7 pm – End of Annual Conference