Youth Advisory Delegate (YAD) Fact Sheet
Thank you to all who submitted nominations for YADs to the 220th General Assembly – June 30 – July 7, 2012, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The nomination period has ended.
The basic role and function of a Youth Advisory Delegate (YAD) is to make commissioners to the General Assembly (GA) aware of issues and ideas they might not otherwise come to know. The GA is open to having young people in its midst and encourages the voice of YADs in its deliberations.
ELIGIBILITY:
- Between the ages of 17 and 22 at the time of the assembly
- A participating member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
- A growing and concerned Christian
EXPENSES: All expenses for travel, housing, and meals to General Assembly are paid for by the presbytery and/or General Assembly
EXPECTATIONS: It is expected that a YAD will participate in the following ways:
- In consciousness raising, i.e., increasing the sensitivity of Synod as to how young Christians see and respond to issues and concerns before the Church; and sharpening those issues and
- concerns that particularly affect youth.
- As visible and articulate members of the church, contributing to the openness, sensitivity, and
- faithfulness of the Church.
- YADs shall not be elected to GA with either a direct or implicit understanding of how they will
- speak or vote in the assembly, or in committee on any pending issue.
- To seek and contribute to openness, the sensitivity, and the faithfulness of the Church.
