Post-lunch report on Friday of Diocesan Convention

So far so good.
We arrived a little late to the convention this morning after checking in to our hotel rooms (v. nice) but made it in time for the first ballot of elections for people to fill various councils and committees in the diocese. I think that we managed to elect most of the people but we will have to go to a second ballot for the clergy position on the Standing Committee. But fortunately that's the only one we will have to vote for, fortunately.
After voting on positions, we began discussing and voting upon resolutions. We only got through two of them, but they both passed. The first resolution gave a voice and vote at convention to clergy of the Lutheran denomination who are resident in the Diocese of Maryland. The second passed new standards for clergy and lay compensation as per the yearly increases.
Despite the fact that these two were really non-issues, there was a lot of unnecessary debate and a lot of people who clearly didn't read their pre-convention booklets outlining the rules of order. Will we never learn......oh well. Hopefully folks have had their coffee by now and are a little less persnickety before we start the rest of the resolutions to be discussed this afternoon. Especially since we're a bit behind....
The keynote speaker was interesting, thought-provoking, and rather fun. I, of course, am in perfect college mode and I was taking good detailed lecture notes, haha. At any rate, it was lightyears past the previous two keynote speakers that I've heard and managed to prevent us all from falling asleep by forcing us to draw, talk, and move. Crazy concept.
Round two begins....report on that to come.