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MESSAGE FROM THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE

We are anxious to receive suggestions for nominees from you, the membership. You must consider the qualifications, willingness, and commitment of the individual suggested.

For Nominee application, click here.

Officers to be elected at the 2012 Convention are:

President**
First Vice-President
Second Vice-President
Third Vice-President
Secretary**
Treasurer**
The Silver Cross Editor**
Director of Spiritual Life
Director of the Chautauqua Department**
Director of the Junior Department**
Director of the Health Careers Scholarship Department
Director of the Student Ministry Scholarship Department**
Director of the Around the World Department**
Director of the North American Indian Department

**Denotes those officers who have served only one term (2 years), and are eligible for consideration by the Nominating Committee for a second term.

NOMINATIONS - YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Members are encouraged to exercise their rights and responsibilities to suggest nominees who meet or exceed the minimum qualifications as required by our Bylaws amended at Convention 2010.

Note: The Bylaws amended in 2010 provided the "Proviso: To be implemented with the elections at the 2012 Convention."

Article VI, Section 2. Any candidate for an International Office, with the exception noted in Section 3 of this Article concerning the International President, must have served at least one year as a Branch Officer or chairmanship on the Branch level, the candidate must refuse re-election in the Branch at the completion of the current term.

Section 3. Any candidate for the office of International President must have served at least two years as a Branch President and two terms as an International Officer.

Section 4. Officers shall be elected by the General Convention body and shall hold office for two years, or until their successors have been elected and qualified. No officer shall be elected to the same Office for more than two terms of two years each. An individual having served two terms (four years) in an office, after having been out of office for at least one term, may be elected to a different office and serve in that office for two terms (four years). Being out of office does not apply to the eligibility of an individual to be elected to the office of first vice-president or president. No individual shall be eligible to be elected as an officer if that individual has completed twelve years (six terms) as an elected officer. Any person serving one year or more of an officer's unexpired term shall be considered to have served one full term and shall be eligible for election to only one more term in that office.

The committee is required to select nominees for the positions of all the officers listed. These will be elected at General Convention in 2012. The committee will start to work by meeting during Central Council in August 2011. Please keep us in your prayers as we work toward fulfilling our task. Any of your suggestions should be sent to any member of the committee by August 1, 2011. We look forward to hearing from you.

Wyolene S. Pointer
Chairman, Nominating Committee

Nominating Committee:

Wyolene S. Pointer 4922 Hermitage Lane, Gloucester, VA 23061
804-693-4350 or wpointer1@cox.net

Susan J. Kildow 1698 County Road 10, Bellefontaine, OH 43311-9237
937-593-1833 or sjkildow@embarqmail.com

Phoebe McLelland 612-1705 Playfair Drive, Ottawa, ON K1H 8P6 Canada
613-733-5721 or pmclelland@sympatico.ca

Terry M. Pearson 205 Haven Circle, Columbia, TN 38401
931-698-5831 or tpearsont@netscape.net

Thad B. Welch, Jr. 1016A Welch Street, Savannah, GA 31410
912-897-1531 or thadwelch@bellsouth.net