{"id":3713,"date":"2022-06-16T17:10:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T00:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2022-06-18T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T16:22:28","slug":"225th-general-assembly-of-the-presbyterian-church-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=3713","title":{"rendered":"225th General Assembly Of The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are hitting the peak of the GA Season this coming week having just finished an interesting week with the 218th General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church<\/a> and the 88th General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church<\/a>. I regret not previewing each of those but life has gotten busy at the moment. I hope to get some review comments posted for each in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the week ahead is the busiest of the GA Season with four major Assemblies happening at the same time including the Presbyterian Church in Ireland<\/a>, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church<\/a>, and the largest of the GA’s, the Presbyterian Church in America<\/a>. But the first one to convene will be the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and so we turn our attention to that now.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The 225th General Assembly<\/a> of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)<\/a>, is set to convene at 11 AM Eastern Time on Saturday, June 18 with worship. But this will be a most unique Assembly as it will stretch over three weeks in a mixed format. The opening plenaries will be hybrid, for reasons I will explain in a moment, and then there are two weeks of in-person committee meetings. This will be followed by a week of virtual plenary meetings with the Assembly to conclude on the afternoon of Saturday, July 9. The good news for the GA Junkies is that it will all be live-streamed. (But do you want four computers going to track all the committee action?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting will be held in Louisville at the Presbyterian Center which has undergone a renovation<\/a> to have the infrastructure to host this meeting. One of the topics for discussion and decision at this meeting is whether to continue with this design or go back to the regular rotation and meet in Salt Lake City in two years as previously planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, here is the schedule breakdown for the next three weeks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n