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by Lloyd M. Hall, Jr.
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Concluding Business
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After the Moderator has formally announced the finding, the
Council will want to review the minutes as they are currently
written. The Scribe should be asked to read the minutes to this
point. After hearing the yet incomplete minutes, if there are no
objections, the Council will vote to approve the minutes so far and
to authorize the Moderator and Scribe to complete and file them.
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The candidate will then be asked to present the order of worship
for the public service. This should be done through the distribution
of draft copies of the proposed order, indicating what individuals
will be participating. Since the Council will be party to this
service, the Council will need to "find it satisfactory." It would be
rare for any other result at this point.
In its final act of business, the Council will vote to stand in recess
and to be dissolved with the Benediction at the conclusion of the
public service.
The meeting of the Council is almost always followed by a fellowship meal. This
is a good time for personal comments, plaudits, and thanksgivings.
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32 Minutes should be filed with the candidate, the inviting Church, the
Congregational Library in Boston, the West Coast Congregational Library, the
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, and the regional
fellowship or local association. This latter may occasionally - though should
not - be an association of ministers if that is the local custom. It has also been a
thoughtful custom for the Church calling a newly ordained minister to send a
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National Association of Congregational Christian
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