View as Webpage / Visualizar como uma página / Visualizar como una página web da web/Als Webseite anzeigen

2026 Special General Conference

Commission on General Conference

Notice of time

Back on 2nd June 2026, we notified you that the Governing Board has voted to hold a Special General Conference on 10th October 2026, for consideration of the recommendations of the Commission on General Conference. The only items for consideration at this online Business Meeting will be the recommendations from the Commission.

The General Conference Business Forum will be held on 3rd October 2026.

At its 7th July meeting the Governing Board has set the times as follows:

Discussion Circle Question and Answer Document and Notes from all sessions

Notes form all June 2026 Discussion Circles have been placed here in English, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish.

Additionally, the Commission on General Conference created a question and answer document to provide clarification to questions that arose during Disucussion Circles.

Business Pack and

Additional Information

As promised in the 2nd June email, the Commissioners and the Governing Board reviewed the feedback from the Discussion Circles held in June (attended by more than 100 people, in addition to staff, Commissioners and Governors).

The revised documents will be published in the Business Pack (which includes amended motions and a bylaw amendment proposal) by 3rd September 2026. These are versions that Lay Delegates share with the congregation, to get their

instruction on how to vote.

Additional Discussion Circles will be offered for consideration during the month of September.

Dates for additional Discussion Circles and registration will be announced soon.

In addition to this means of email communications, we will post items on the web at this link - https://insidemcc.org/2026-online-special-general-conference-business-meeting/

Follow us on social media:

Threads | Vimeo