2025 NWIM Synod Assembly Update
A Message From Pastor Phil
Dear people of the Northwest Intermountain Synod,
The calendar has turned to 2025 and that means the NWIM Synod Assembly is just around the corner. This spring we’ll be gathering on May 3, 2025 via Zoom beginning at 9AM Pacific/10AM Mountain. The theme for the 2025 NWIM Synod Assembly is “Wellsprings of God’s Love.”
As myself and the other staff have traveled around the synod territory, we can’t help but notice all the ways God’s love is springing up in and through and among the folks of the NWIM Synod. During Assembly, you’ll have opportunity to see snippets of these lovely springs via brief videos highlighting different ministries and leaders. Keep an eye out for registration and election information, nomination and resolution submission forms that will be sent out next by February 3, 2025. The cost will be $50.00 per person. Registration is not refundable, but it is transferable. The day together will be shaped by prayer and action, there will be opportunities to worship and to connect with others from across the NWIM Synod and beyond.
I hope your congregation is able to send voting members to this critical and exciting gathering as a Synod. Congregations with 1-500 baptized members are able to send two (2) lay Assembly voting members; congregations with 501-1000 baptized members are able to send three (3) voting members; and those over 1000 members are able to send four (4) lay voting members. Additionally, each rostered leader on the active or retired roster are able to be voting members of the NWIM Synod Assembly along with members of the NWIM Synod Council.
Other important dates regarding Synod Assembly are:
March 14, 2025 – Deadline for resolutions, memorials, and nominations. Any that are submitted after this date will not be included in the Pre-Assembly Packet of information.
March 31, 2024 – Registration will close. It will launch in mid-February, so watch your inboxes!
April 24, 26, and 28 – There will be an Assembly Orientation offered each of these days. It will take place at 6:30PM Pacific/7:30PM Mountain on the 24th and 28th and at 9:00AM/10:00AM on the 26th
April 26 – Hearings on the budget and resolutions/memorials will take place throughout the day beginning 10:10AM Pacific/11:10AM Mountain. A schedule of hearings will be sent out in April.
May 3, 2025 – The Northwest Intermountain Synod Assembly beginning at 9:00AM Pacific/10:00AM Mountain.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Pastor Phil Misner