Daily Agenda

Assembly Agenda subject to change based upon bishop election process 

ALL events take place at the Rough Rider Center, Watford City, ND 

FRIDAY, MAY 29

12:00 – 6:00 pm     Registration Open – Rough Rider Center Lobby 

1:30 – 4:30 pm       Pre-Assembly Workshop – Equipping Storytellers: Practical Tools for Storytelling in Your Church 

4:30 – 6:30 pm     Dinner on your own  

SATURDAY, MAY 31

Breakfast on your own 

7:30 am          Assembly Registration & Check-in

8:00 am          Assemble Together

Gathering Music & Coffee

8:30 am          Plenary #1

Welcome & Introductions...Devotions & Bible Study...1st Ballot for Bishop...Introduce Resolutions & Memorials 

10:45 am         Plenary #2

Interactive Pow-Wow Presentation...Results of 1st Ballot...Treasurer’s Report 

12:15 pm          Lunch Break

1:15 pm            Plenary #3 

2nd Ballot for Bishop...Conference Caucus Meetings...ELCA Churchwide Report...Results of 2nd Ballot...Consider Resolutions & Memorials...3rd Ballot for Bishop...Assembly Workshops

5:30 pm          Adjourn for the Day

SUNDAY, MAY 31

Breakfast on your own

7:30 am          Assembly Registration & Check-in

8:00 am          Assemble Together

Gathering Music & Coffee

8:30 am          Plenary #4

Devotions...Assembly Workshops...3rd Ballot Results...Consider Resolutions & Memorials 

10:45 am         Plenary #5

4th & 5th Ballots for Bishop...Bishop Schweitzer’s Report to the Assembly...Results of Ballots...Unfinished Business... Elections of Synod Council Members...Close of the Assembly 

1:00 pm          Closing of the Assembly & Lunch to Go