{"id":2259,"date":"2016-06-20T09:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:48:37","slug":"44th-general-assembly-presbyterian-church-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"44th General Assembly Of The Presbyterian Church In America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"01645A81-A5D8-4EB1-9E4C30D14028D307\"<\/a>The 44th General Assembly<\/a> of the Presbyterian Church in America<\/a> will convene their plenary sessions tomorrow evening, 21 June, in Mobile, Alabama. Committees of Commissioners<\/a> begin orientations and meetings today. The Assembly will continue through noon on Friday. The theme of the Assembly is “REFRESHED: In and For the Cross.” The meeting will be live streamed<\/a> and they have their GA app<\/a> available for several platforms to follow along. There is also a ShareFile! app<\/a> there for registered commissioners to download reports and other documents.<\/p>\n

While the full volume of reports is available only to commissioners, the docket<\/a> and overtures<\/a> are available on-line. [Tech note to the GA organizers – it is again the case this year that you might want to change the title in the GA docket PDF properties so it no longer says “40th General Assembly.”] There is a nice page with links to all the forms and schedules<\/a> for the meeting. And this may be the first GA for which a Zika Virus Advisory<\/a>\u00a0has been issued.<\/p>\n

To track the polity of the PCA you can access the Book of Church Order<\/a> online.<\/p>\n

News updates will be posted through the official news website and online publication byFaith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turning to social media, you will probably want to keep an eye on the byFaith Magazine Facebook page.<\/a> There are numerous opportunities to follow the meeting on Twitter including the official feed from byFaith (@PCAbyFaith<\/a>). There is also a feed for the Reasoning_Together (@PCA_Elders<\/a>) program however it looks like that has gone dormant. The hashtag for the Assembly (and as I have been told<\/a> the only one that is decent and in order) is #pcaga<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other related Twitter accounts include Reformed University Fellowship (@RUFnational<\/a>) and the Mission to North America (@pcamna<\/a>).\u00a0I would also include in this group the denomination’s schools, Covenant College (@CovenantCollege<\/a>). and Covenant Seminary (@covseminary<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As for individuals to watch – round-up the usual suspects. Some who will be at the meeting and are, or will probably be tweeting include Fred Greco (@fredgreco<\/a>), Ligon Duncan (@LigonDuncan<\/a>), Sean Michael Lucas (@SeanMLucas<\/a>), Melton L. Duncan (@MeltonDuncan<\/a>), and Jemar Tisby (@JemarTisby<\/a>) and his Reformed African American Network (@RAANetwork<\/a>). Having included one organization there I will also mention Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing (@prpbooks<\/a>) and Reformed Theological Seminary (@ReformTheoSem<\/a>). (And as a note, there are other Twitter accounts for the different RTS campuses.) Let me also include Allan Edwards (@edwardsae1<\/a>) who in past years has given us the Bingo Card<\/a>\u00a0and the Selfie Scavenger Hunt<\/a>.\u00a0This year we are back to the Bingo card, but there are suggestions of a new activity next year. And finally, I have previously been advised by @PCAPresbyter<\/a> himself that all you really need to do is follow him. He will be sure to keep you decent and in order. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Regarding business to the Assembly, I will refer you to three articles from byFaith<\/a> that review some of the important business that caught my eye.<\/p>\n