The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will convene tomorrow, 20 May, in Edinburgh at 10 AM local time.  The occasion will be marked by the unique honor of a 21-gun salute from Edinburgh Castle. The Assembly continues through 26 May.

There is plenty of on-line information to keep a G.A. Junkie entertained for the next week:

• There will be a live audio and video webcast.
• For the scheduled business check out the Daily Agenda page and to follow along you can find the Committee Reports on another page.
• You can get the information on what has taken place from the Official Press Releases (already in high gear) and the Daily Updates which should include both an archived version of the daily web updates and a once or twice a day audio recap.
• For all the other stuff that is going on for Assembly week check out the Events page.
• This year there is an official 2010 General Assembly blog.
• The Assembly does a great job on Twitter and you can follow the official feed @generalassembly and all the rest of us using the hashtag #ga2010 (although a couple other Presbyterian branches and a couple of non-Presbyterians seem to be using it as well.
• Youth delegates from the Church of Scotland Youthwork program will be participating in the Assembly and blogging on the COSYBlog, as well as on Twitter at @cosy_nya and on Flickr.

The Moderator of this Assembly will be the Right Reverend John Cairns Christie of St Andrew’s Church, West Kilbride.  The Lord High Commissioner will be Lord Wilson of Tillyorn KT.  (I had to look it up – KT is the suffix for the The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.)

I have already mentioned a couple of items on the docket for this Assembly – The Third Article Declaratory, a Ministries Council report that reduces ministerial staffing by 10% over four years, and the strategic plan for property management and disposal.  And we must remember that the Special Commission considering ordination standards does not report back this year.  But there is plenty more on the docket to be considered.

So tune in and follow along because it should be a good meeting.