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Attention all members and interested attenders of Ladner Christian Fellowship.

We have been telling you about the changes to the BC Societies Act and the need for us to make amendments to our Constitution and By-laws as well as the need to hold a vote on the legal name for Lighthouse Church.  Well that day is now upon us.  The board call on the members to set aside an hour at 7 pm on the 27th of June (Tuesday) to receive the motion(s) of amendments and to vote.

Some of the changes are in keeping with the BC Societies Act requirements but many others are in keeping with changes made by the General Conference of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (the fellowship of churches to which we belong) since our constitution was adopted in the year 2000.  Every 2 years this conference meets with delegates from all 1,100 plus churches and votes on recommendations from the constitution committee and from private member motions to keep the local church constitution healthy and helpful.

Attached is a copy of the proposed constitution showing changes made from the original.  Most of the additions are highlighted in blue text and where possible wording that was removed is show with strikethrough.  Helpful explanations are added as footnotes.

Attached is also a copy of the current constitution as it is on file with the BC Registry of Societies.

Also included is a link to the current Statement of Faith which is kept online at the PAOC's main website. >>PAOC Statement of Faith<<

Our goal is to present first one (1) motion to approve ALL changes as presented.  As you are receiving these changes to review in good time before the meeting there will not be need to break them down one by one.  Thus we anticipate that this meeting will not need to take long.  

We will be presenting the second motion which is to official change the name in keeping with our previous motion and that it will be legally registered as "Lighthouse Church PAOC."  A reminder that in operational use it will be referred to simply as Lighthouse Church or specifically as Lighthouse Church Ladner or Lighthouse Church Steveston.  

Please do mark your calendars ASAP as we will need a quorum of 40% to pass these motions.  It is our hope to move forward in using the new name in Steveston over the summer and set up a full launch party for us in Ladner in the fall.  We anticipate, even after voting, that there are some logistics to work through before we can simply start using the name.