{"id":423,"date":"2010-05-20T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2010-05-20T05:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T12:40:00","slug":"the-general-assembly-of-the-church-of-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/generalassembly\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">General Assembly<\/a>  of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Church of Scotland<\/a>  will convene tomorrow, 20 May, in Edinburgh at 10 AM local time.&nbsp; The occasion will be marked by the unique honor of a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scotland\/Gun-salute--to-honour.6304456.jp\" target=\"_blank\">21-gun salute from Edinburgh Castle<\/a>. The Assembly continues through 26 May.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of on-line information to keep a G.A. Junkie entertained for the next week:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>There will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/stream1.churchofscotland.org.uk\/generalassembly\/\" target=\"_blank\">live audio and video webcast<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>For the scheduled business check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/generalassembly\/gaagenda.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Agenda page<\/a>  and to follow along you can find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/generalassembly\/gareports.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Committee Reports<\/a>  on another page.<\/li>\n<li>You can get the information on what has taken place from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/news\/newsgeneralassembly.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Official Press Releases<\/a>  (already in high gear) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/generalassembly\/gaupdates.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Updates<\/a>  which should include both an archived version of the daily web updates and a once or twice a day audio recap.<\/li>\n<li>For all the other stuff that is going on for Assembly week check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/generalassembly\/gaevents.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Events page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This year there is an official <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/generalassemblycofs.blogspot.com\/\">2010 General Assembly blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Assembly does a great job on Twitter and you can follow the official feed <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/generalassembly\" target=\"_blank\">@generalassembly<\/a>  and all the rest of us using the hashtag&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23ga2010\" target=\"_blank\">#ga2010<\/a>  (although a couple other Presbyterian branches and a couple of non-Presbyterians seem to be using it as well. <\/li>\n<li>Youth delegates from the Church of Scotland Youthwork program will be participating in the Assembly and blogging on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cosyblog.wordpress.com\/\">COSYBlog<\/a>, as well as on Twitter at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cosy_nya\">@cosy_nya<\/a>  and on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cosyblog\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Moderator of this Assembly will be the Right Reverend John Cairns Christie of St Andrew\u2019s Church, West Kilbride.&nbsp; The Lord High Commissioner will be <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.debretts.com\/people\/biographies\/browse\/w\/9447\/David%20Clive%20Wilson+WILSON%20OF%20TILLYORN.aspx\">Lord Wilson of Tillyorn KT<\/a>.&nbsp; (I had to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order_of_the_Thistle\">look it up<\/a>  &#8211; KT is the suffix for the The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.)<\/p>\n<p>I have already mentioned a couple of items on the docket for this Assembly &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/2010\/04\/28\/the-general-assembly-of-the-church-of-scotland--reaffirm-the-third-article-declaratory.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Third Article Declaratory<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/2010\/04\/27\/the-general-assembly-of-the-church-of-scotland--review-and-reform-and-ministries.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Ministries Council report<\/a>  that reduces ministerial staffing by 10% over four years, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/2010\/05\/04\/the-general-assembly-of-the-church-of-scotland--what-is-making-the-rounds-of-the-press-and-what-is-not.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">strategic plan for property management<\/a>  and disposal.&nbsp; And we must remember that the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/2010\/04\/20\/leadup-to-the-general-assembly-of-the-church-of-scotland.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Special Commission considering ordination standards<\/a>  does not report back this year.&nbsp; But there is plenty more on the docket to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>So tune in and follow along because it should be a good meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will convene tomorrow, 20 May, in Edinburgh at 10 AM local time.&nbsp; The occasion will be marked by the unique honor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-scotland","category-general-assembly"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland - The GA Junkie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=423\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The General Assembly Of The Church Of Scotland - The GA Junkie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will convene tomorrow, 20 May, in Edinburgh at 10 AM local time.&nbsp; 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