{"id":1639,"date":"2023-10-31T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T01:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2023-11-01T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T01:47:56","slug":"agm-report-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"AGM Report 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AGM-report-2023-for-publication.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AGM-report-2023-for-publication.pdf noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Report-Cover-Screenshot-1024x581.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Report-Cover-Screenshot-1024x581.png 1024w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Report-Cover-Screenshot-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Report-Cover-Screenshot-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Report-Cover-Screenshot-500x284.png 500w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Report-Cover-Screenshot.png 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>VMS held its Annual General Meeting on Sunday Oct. 29, 2023 at the Multifaith Centre at the University of Victoria. Thanks go out to our Chair John Borrows as MC, Rev. Lesia Kohut for her inspiring keynote presentation on <em>Cultivating Harmony in a Polarized World<\/em>, and to all those who reported and participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warm appreciation was expressed to outgoing board members Janine Theobald (Buddhist Seat), Jagir Virk (Sikh Seat), Ora Stefanic (Jewish Seat) and David Batterham (Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Seat) for their dedicated service on the VMS Board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome and unanimous affirmation were given to Fletcher Bennett (Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Seat), Rabbi Harry Brechner (Jewish Seat), and Bhavin-Singh Nihang (Sikh Seat). It was noted that the Buddhist seat remains vacant and the board is seeking candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VMS Board 2023 \u2013 2024:<\/strong><br>Sheila Flood, Executive Director<br>John Borrows \u2013 Chair, Indigenous Spirituality <br>Henri Lock \u2013 Secretary, Christian seat <br>Fletcher Bennett \u2013 Treasurer, Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed seat <br>Rabbi Harry Brechner \u2013 Jewish seat <br>Shrikant Shenwai \u2013 Hindu seat <br>Rev. Lesia Kohut \u2013 New Thought<br>May Shihadeh \u2013 Muslim seat <br>Bhavin-Singh Nihang \u2013 Sikh seat <br>Vacant \u2013 Buddhist seat <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMS held its Annual General Meeting on Sunday Oct. 29, 2023 at the Multifaith Centre at the University of Victoria. Thanks go out to our Chair John Borrows as MC, Rev. Lesia Kohut for her inspiring keynote presentation on Cultivating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1639\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}