Elections Results

Dear All:

Christian greetings and peace.

The African Fellowship met on Friday, February 18 2011 for two agendas:
[1]  to fellowship and
[2] to choose the new Fellowship leaders for the 2011/2012 academic year.

The environment was conducive for fellowship and interactions and we had variety of food and time to catch up and share recent experiences and merriments for the Christmas holidays. From the look of things it is like everybody had some travels to make either back to our mother land, Africa or across the US. It was a great time. Children and young adults were released to go and do their business as the main agenda of the day was rolled out.

The day's Returning Officer, Matthew called the meeting in order and did some exhortation before the elections could begin. The verbatim version of the constitution was unfolded and each member present ascended to the same. The Returning officer ensured that from the word go, the electorate understood every step of the electioneering process. Since these were going to be a secret ballot exercise, the ballot boxes were ensured to be free and empty. This is confirmed. Proposals to elect the President of the fellowship were called. Members proposed names of those present as well those absent pegged on their consent. After a series of competitive proposals and secondment, the following were elected to lead and guide our African Fellowship:
1] President: Rev'd David Ntogonya
2] Secretary: Rev'd Raymond Muniss
3] Treasurer: Mrs. Esther Achi [will confirm]. 
Since Matthew had to leave to attend to other matters, I was asked to conclude the elections. The whole election process was a wonderful exercise filled with the presence of the Holy Spirit.

Congratulations to our new leaders and thank you to the outgoing leadership. The handing over exercise will be in April 2011. When all is said and done, it is my humble submission that the African Fellowship is looked upon in this Institution for inspiration and motivation and so I appeal to all of us to avail ourselves to live to the expectations of many around us. Your guess is as good as mine that it has been said over and over again, that the Church is growing greatly in Africa and rightly so and so we need to demonstrate this blessing of the Lord. Please accept this simple and summary report for this "hot seat" of the Returning Officer! It is one thing to elect leaders into office and it is another to surround them with support.

God bless us all and let us share Acts 17:28 - ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’^[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.

Faithfully

Rev'd Paul Korir

Elections - Change of Venue

Please note the change of venue: for this particular Friday we will meet in the Royal Auditorium and not in Cordelia.
Everything else remains constant.

Elections

Fellow Africans,
Greetings to you in the new year. I hope you are settling in well as the semester begins and that you are not overwhelmed by the demands of your classes! I am prayig that all of us will be highly successful in our seminary careers and that we will return to a greater success in the field wherever the ord might send us from here. God is great.

We meet on Friday the 18th, which is a week from today to elect our new leadership team. Unless otherwise communicated, let us plan to meet for a potluck dinner 6pm in Cordelia B.

Here are some guidelines for the election of a new president.
1. He/ she should be a member of the community, preferably one who is regularly involved in the fellowship.
                  - can be a seminary student
                  - can be a student spouse
                  - can be a member of the seminary staff
                  - can be a member of the seminary faculty
                  - can be a faculty spouse
2. He/ she should love Africans and seek their well being.  
3. He/ she is to be a Christian.
4. Since the president leads the whole group, unity of the whole should be part of his/ her agenda.

ActionPoint:
a. Please pray for the election of our new president and leadership team
b. Please think, consult and get ready to vote the right people into office who will lead this fellowship to its next level.
c. Per our current constitution, nominations will be given at the time election, which will be done by secret ballot. 

Robert Magoola, President
Asbury Thological Seminary African Fellowship