Jamestown Cross

UBUNTU: Ubuntu was the theme for General Convention 2009. Ubuntu is an African way of life of being oneself shaped through the community one is in. I in You and You in Me. When at Convention I definitely felt the theme take life in what we were doing. We dealt with many difficult issues but we worked through them together and respectfully. We listened to each other, we prayed with each other, we sang songs of praise with each other. We were truly a family and lived up to the theme of Ubuntu. We became good friends with many other deputations that were sitting near us as well. Our deputation grew very close while discussing resolutions that were put in front of us to vote on. We also participated in many social dinners and gatherings together that allowed us to talk more freely and get to know one another more fully. At the end of Convention I really felt like I had extended my church family to the national level, with the closest of these members being on my own deputation. Resolutions and church legislation are a very important part of General Convention, but the relationships built, and community felt is what Christ was all about.