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The words that echo loudest after the Christian Reformed Church in North America’s Synod 2024 will depend on who you are and where you’re situated in the CRCNA.

Synod 2024 asked for advice on the categories of synodical pronouncements and wants a task force to “develop Church Order procedures to discipline officebearers, including disaffiliation initiated by a major assembly.”

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Synod 2024 heard appeals of several classis rulings in closed session. President Derek Buikema read synod’s decisions into the public record.

Derek Buikema tells synod delegates “gentleness is strong” and urges them to refrain from acrimony and slander as they head back to their home congregations.

Trish Borgdorff shared words of farewell to the denomination at Synod 2024.

Synod declared that churches, members, and officebearers who have an “in protest with ecclesiastical intent” status shall be entered into the process of discipline.

Synod 2024 considered requests to require delegates to re-sign the Covenant for Officebearers at synod, choosing instead to have the re-signing of the covenant yearly at the classis level.

Synod 2024 adopted a proposal to extend the denomination’s current ministry plan by five years, but it wants a revision of the “Grow in Diversity” milestone to emphasize “hospitality” over “ethnic quotas.”

Synod 2024’s young adult representatives shared with The Banner their motivations for attending synod and their experiences at the assembly.

Synod 2024 declined to make a statement calling specific matters “a salvation issue,” saying Scripture is already clear that all sin is a salvation issue.