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Update

This 'Update' will be brief following so recently after General Assembly.

Thank you

A very big thank you to all who gathered in Assembly for helping to make Assembly positive and encouraging, and for continuing to lift the momentum of direction and life in the Presbyterian Church. Especially the Commissioners and Associates who brought with them the varied insights and experience of the Church, a receptiveness to contributions and a responsiveness to issues raised. I enjoyed Assembly and was warmed again by the wealth in our Church and the very evident resolve to be renewed for mission.

Assembly Follow-up

Since Assembly:

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Over 300 letters have been sent welcoming people appointed to Assembly groups, thanking those who have retired from Assembly groups, sending greetings to partner churches, advising people of Assembly decisions, remembering those whose family members were named in the Act of Commemoration, thanking Assembly speakers, commending Lay Ministers, and following through other decisions.

Letters have been sent to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Education and other ministers of the Crown in accordance with Assembly decisions. Their responses will be published in a future Bush Telegraph.

The minutes have been approved and are being readied for publishing and distribution in about a month.

Memoranda to Presbyteries and UDCs, Sessions and Parish Councils are being distributed including the material for consideration under the Barrier Act and matters for study and consideration. Please watch for these.

Some follow-up will need to wait until I return from time away.

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And then away

I will be away in the United Kingdom from 9 to 24 October. General Secretaries from the thirty-one Council for World Mission Churches are meeting in London 14-18 October. Prior to that I am visiting the Church of Scotland where I am meeting with their Board of Mission to learn about how they are encouraging national and regional planning, progress on the "Church Without Walls" project, and how they plan, initiate, and resource new church developments with regional and local input. I will be staying with the Principal Clerk and Moderator. After London I am staying with the Rev. Principal John McCullough a former Theological Hall Professor and visiting the Church Offices of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland.

In my absence the Rev. Ken Irwin will be Acting Assembly Executive Secretary.

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