In just over 12 hours the 219th General Assembly (2010) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will convene in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Here are resources to help you follow all the action.

• General Assembly home page
• General Assembly Business on PC-Biz – specifically
• Search function
• Committee list with business assigned to each committee and vote tracking
• Resources
• Moderator election
• Official Moderator Booklet
• Moderator Page on the web site
• Docket
• Schedule of Events
• Official News Feed
• Constitutional Documents
• Book of Confessions
• Book of Order – PDF Format — Interactive Annotated Book of Order
• Manual of the General Assembly
• Policy statement on Using Social Media at the General Assembly
• Major Reports
• Belhar Report
• Marriage Report – Main Report — Minority Report — Bibliography
• New Revised Form of Government
• Heidelberg Report
• Israel/Palestine Report (note: This link appears to have broken on the new web site and I’ll correct when fixed)
• Youth Task Force Report
•  Committee on Local Arrangements (COLA)
• One of more of the Official Blogs may be active as well
• Free GA Resources from the Presbyterian Leader
• Pictures – official from the OGA and I believe unofficial, but well done, from Erin Dunigan (update)

This is shaping up to be a major Twitter event.   The major hashtag is #ga219 but the more light-hearted but less efficient hashtag #presbynerdfest10 is in play as well.  The official twitter users are led by the Moderator of the 218th GA Bruce Reyes-Chow at both @breyeschow and @brc_live.  In addition, the outgoing Vice-Moderator Byron Wade can be followed at @bawade.  There are official or semi-official twitter names for @yaads219, @ga219tracker, @gacola2010, @presbyGA, and @DirofOp (Director of Operations – Thomas Hay).  There is of course also the official main Twitter name @Presbyterian but I am not sure that will be used much for GA related tweets.

There are numerous other individuals and groups who will be tweeting, and those are probably best followed by the hashtag or the GA219 Twub.  (A twub is a means of consolidating and having a Twitter community.)  Also, I have previously listed the Twitter handles of Moderator and Vice-Moderator candidates and will add those of the successful candidate to the official list above upon the selection by the Assembly.  UPDATE: With the election of Cynthia Bolbach and Landon Whitsitt as Moderator and Vice-Moderator you can follow them on Twitter at @cbolbach and @landonw.

OK, now the unofficial blog coverage.  There is a lot of coverage out that and I am sure to miss someone but here is what I have right now.  I would start with two individuals who have put together a tremendous amount of information.  Robert Austell has put up a very comprehensive and complete site at GAhelp.net and is there at GA updating and tracking information.  Also, Bob Davis has put together a set of reviews of the business before the Assembly at Presbyblog.  Also, the news sites Presbyterian Outlook and The Layman will be posting their takes on the Assembly.  Each also has a blogger commenting on the action, Carmen Fowler for the Layman and Adam J. Copeland for the Outlook.  (And there is word that Toby Brown will also be blogging for the Layman.) For other coverage:

• Covenant Network
• More Light Presbyterians
• Presbyterian Coalition
• Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
• Presbyterian Voices for Justice
• Presbyterians Pro-Life

There are also individuals who will be blogging live and remotely.  I am in the latter group and will contributing my comments as my schedule permits.

So we have one week ahead of us of polity, parliamentary procedure, and discussion and debate.  There will be a live feed but I don’t see that link for that yet.  I’ll add that link in the list above when the GA starts.  So hang on and have fun.