Shaun McKinley
Administrative Liaison to the General Overseer | Director of Communications
Phone: 423.559.5103
Fax: 423.559.5108
E-mail: smckinley@cogop.org
Church of God of Prophecy International Offices
Office of the General Overseer
PO Box 2910
Cleveland, TN 37320-2910
Proxy System Defined
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"A vote that is cast by one entity on behalf of another. In securities, shareholders often give company management the right to cast their vote at a shareholder's meeting." InvestorWords.Copyright© 2011 by WebFinance, Inc. |
"A proxy vote is a vote that is cast in a way that allows a person not in attendance to have his vote counted without physically casting a ballot. This may be done by mail or through a delivered letter or statement." eHow.Copyright© 2011 Demand Media, Inc. U.S.A. |
Representation and Participation
Representation of the members (churches) and their decision on an issue(s) could be done in the form of a submitted proxy or proxies. "Proxy" as used in the Assembly Committee for Biblical Doctrine and Polity (ACBDP) document as passed by the Assembly, means “a document from a local church authorizing someone (a designated person as in (b)above) to exercise the Church’s expression on a given issue(s) before the International General Assembly of the Church of God of Prophecy, and, if necessary, change that expression in Assembly context under the further leading of the Holy Spirit, the wisdom of the Assembly counselors, and/or the one accord expression of the Assembly."
An excerpt from the Ministry Policy Manual found in the 2008 Minutes, pages 17-19.