The Committee on Nominations is charged to seek out and nominate individuals best qualified to serve on the Boards, Committees and Agencies of the General Synod and as Officers of the General Synod. This form has been prepared by the Committee on Nominations for the purpose of recommending individuals to the Committee for consideration. A separate form must be used for each position recommended. Recommendations must be received by January 4, 2010. You may use this on-line form or download a form (PDF) and submit completed forms to:

Committee on Nominations
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Center
1 Cleveland St Ste 110
Greenville SC 29601-3696

Very often, the members of the Committee on Nominations do not know the persons recommended. It is essential, therefore, that ALL recommendations include information that will help the Committee know more about the individual recommended. Proper consideration cannot be given without complete information. Each person recommended should have clearly confirmed a willingness to be nominated to the General Synod and should have been informed that nominees chosen by the Committee on Nominations will be asked to give satisfactory evidence of his or her belief and adherence to the basic doctrines of evangelical Christianity as adopted by the General Synod.

AFFIRMATION BY NOMINEE

Each nominee to serve as an Officer of the General Synod or to serve as a member of a Board, Committee, or Ecclesiastical Commission of the General Synod is asked to:

• Confirm his or her willingness to be nominated to the General Synod for the position recommended and to serve if approved by the General Synod.
• Provide satisfactory evidence of his or her belief and adherence to the basic doctrines of evangelical Christianity as adopted by the General Synod and as set forth in the Manual of Authorities and Duties. [Download in PDF]

The following definition of evangelical was adopted by the 1976 General Synod: "The word 'evangelical' comes from a Greek root meaning 'good news' and it refers to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In a broad sense, evangelicals are people who believe that the Bible is God's inspired Word and that an individual can become a Christian only by accepting Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. Evangelicals believe:

"1. The Bible alone, being God-breathed, is the Word of God Written, infallible in all that it teaches, and inerrant in the original manuscripts. (2008 Minutes of Synod).
"2. That there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
"3. In the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His Virgin Birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through the shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
"4. That for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
"5. In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
"6. In the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; that they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
"7. In the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ."