{"id":588,"date":"2009-06-05T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2009-06-05T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T23:22:00","slug":"in-the-middle-of-general-assembly-season-hitting-stride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"In The Middle Of General Assembly Season &#8212; Hitting Stride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well for the first time in a couple of weeks there is no General Assembly of a Presbyterian church going on today.&nbsp; (If you know of one I have missed pleeeeeeese let me know &#8212; this junkie is going through withdraw. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.gajunkie.com\/emoticons\/smile.png?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\">&nbsp; )<\/p>\n<p>Five down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freechurch.org\/\">Free Church of Scotland <\/a> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freechurch.org\/news\/assembly\/09updates.htm\">Assembly Updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freekirkcontinuing.co.uk\/FCC\/Welcome.html\">Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)<\/a> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freekirkcontinuing.co.uk\/FCC\/News_Desk\/Entries\/2009\/5\/29_General_Assembly_Report_09.html\">Assembly Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\">Church of Scotland<\/a> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/generalassembly\/gaupdates.htm\">Assembly hall updates and audio reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opc.org\/\">Orthodox Presbyterian Church<\/a> &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opc.org\/GA\/76th_GA_rpt.html\">Daily reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterianireland.org\/\">Presbyterian Church in Ireland <\/a>&#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterianireland.org\/assembly\/ganews.html\">General Assembly News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing comments on each of these that I hope to have posted in the next few days.&nbsp; But the break is very brief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Up next &#8211; the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/assembly09\">135th General Assembly<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\">Presbyterian Church in Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Colin Carmichael from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/communications\">Communications Office<\/a>, most of what you need to know is listed in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/beingpresbyterian.ca\/archives\/keeping-up-with-general-assembly\/\">his blog post this morning<\/a>.&nbsp; But I&#8217;ll pass it on as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7-12 June, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario (Opening session at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/assembly09\/docs\">GA Documents including Reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/webfm_send\/3184\">Agenda<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/webfm_send\/3173\">Daily Schedule<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/webfm_send\/3191\">Practice and Procedure At General Assembly<\/a>&nbsp; (The standing rules or rules of assembly operation if you will)<\/li>\n<li>Check for news and updates on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/pcconnect\/daily\">PCConnect Daily<\/a> or the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/assembly09\">General Assembly Page<\/a> (Probably in the GA 2009 News section at the bottom of the page.)<\/li>\n<li>The Twitter updates and discussion will use the hashtag #pccga09.&nbsp; You can search the hashtag with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=pccga09\">http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=pccga09<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you want to get the updates on Facebook you can check the group <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/pcconnect\/facebook\">PCConnect<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, for the last few weeks the weekly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/pcconnect\/tv\">PCConnect-TV<\/a> segment on the web has been building up to the General Assembly.&nbsp; While focusing more on the churches in the Hamilton area than the issues and workings of GA itself, the series has provided a great insight into some of the things going on in the PCC today.<\/p>\n<p>Having grown up a-ways down the lake shore from Hamilton I though about attending myself, but I&#8217;ll drop in on one of their Assemblies another time.<\/p>\n<p>That is all that I am aware of.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll update if I find other things.&nbsp; And now a couple of additional comments&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For the different sessions of the GA the PCC uses the (I believe Scottish from the Latin) term &#8220;sederunt,&#8221; meaning &#8220;A formal meeting, especially of a judicial or ecclesiastical body.&#8221; (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sederunt\">from Wiktionary<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I have been impressed with the response to Twitter at GA&#8217;s this year.&nbsp; There are two great examples with very different approaches so far.&nbsp; For the Church of Scotland GA there was a great <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/generalassembly\">Twitter update coming from the Assembly Hall<\/a> as well as a lively discussion that developed around the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=ga2009\">#ga2009 hash tag<\/a>.&nbsp; For the Presbyterian Church in Ireland GA there was an even more active news <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pciassembly\">update from the Assembly Hall<\/a>, a very close play-by-play, but I found no sign of a discussion that developed. (For comparison there were 486 official updates for the four-day PCI GA and 231 for the week-long CofS GA.) For the PCC we have the hashtag, now lets see what happens.&nbsp; One other advantage of the hashtag is that when there is more than one individual posting official updates they can come from different Twitter names.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a personal and public congratulations to Colin Carmichael, Associate Secretary for Communications for the Presbyterian Church in Canada, who will be following this GA from a distance owing to the recent birth of his twins.&nbsp; Congratulations to the whole family and I can think of no better reason to miss a GA.&nbsp; And the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ccarmichael\">Twitter picture<\/a> of him holding the kids is great.&nbsp; But he may be on leave from the office but not from the web as you can tell from his blogging today and twitter updates.&nbsp; God Bless!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well for the first time in a couple of weeks there is no General Assembly of a Presbyterian church going on today.&nbsp; 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