NB. This is archived material from Assembly 2004

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Reports from Assembly 2004

You can access the minutes of General Assembly 2004 from this page.

Below is an index of papers presented to General Assembly 2004.

Introductory material

• User's Guide to the Assembly
• Standing Orders

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Council of Assembly

• E1: Council of Assembly Task Group
• E1: Council of Assembly Addendum
• E1: Appendix 1 – Extract from Directions
• E1: Appendix 2 – Summary of Paul Rishworth Opinion
• E1: Appendix 3 – Assembly Accounts
• E1: Appendix 4 - Westminster Confession
• E1: Appendix 5 - Service Team Leaders
• E2: Book of Order Rewrite Task Group
• E3: Focal Identity Statement Task Group
• E4: Doctrinal Resourcing Task Group
• E5: Nominating Review Task Group
• E6: Role of the Moderator Task Group
• E6: Appendix 1 - Proposed Amendment to Book of Order

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Policy Groups

• F1: Resourcing for Mission Policy Group 1-6
• F1: Appendix 1 - Report of the Uniting Congregations of Aotearoa New Zealand
• F1: Appendix 2 - The Conference of Churches in Aotearoa New Zealand
• F2: Council for Asian Congregations
• F3: Presbyterian Support
• F4: Equipping the Leadership Policy Group 1-14
• F4: Appendix 1 - Leadership for Mission
• F4: Appendix 2 - Local Ordained Ministry Training Requirements
• F4: Appendix 3 - Safety & Protection Policy
• F4: Appendix 4 - The Presbyterian Church & Leadership Development
• F4: Appendix 5 - Competency Framework
• F5: Beneficiary Fund Work Group
• F5: Appendix 1 - Beneficiary Fund Trustees’ Report for the year ended 30 June 2003
• F5: Appendix 2 - Directory as at 30 June 2003
• F5: Appendix 3 - Member & Beneficiary Changes
• F5: Appendix 4 - Member & Beneficiary Changes
• F6: Council of Knox College & Salmond Hall
• F7: Overseas Mission & Partnership Policy Group
• F7: Appendix 1 - The Church of Christ in China, Presbyterian Church of Taiwan and the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa
• F7: Appendix 2 - Israel Palestine
• F8: Christian World Service
• F9: Evangelical Presbyterian Missionary Fellowship
• F10: Connecting with Society
• F11: Churches Agency on Social Issues
• F12: Administration & Finance Policy Group
• F13: Assembly Business Work Group
• F14: Book of Order & Judicial Reference Group
• F14: Addendum
• F15: Church Architecture Reference Group
• F16: Moderator's Arrangements Task Group

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Other Reports

• G1: Assembly Executive Secretary
• G1: Appendix 1 – Pacific Islander' Synod
• G2: Association of Presbyterian Women
• G3: Statement to Accompany the Report of the Church Property Trustees
• G3: Church Property Trustees
• G4: Nominating Committee
• G5: Pacific Islanders' Synod
• G6: Presbyterian Savings & Development Society 1-6
• G7: Te Komiti Takawaenga

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Overtures

• H1: Assembly Assessment
• H2: Single Assessment Levy
• H3: Retaining the "Standards" of the Church
• H4: Sexual Morality and the Ministry
• H5: Seeking Removal of Ageism from the Book of Order
• H6: Financial Services Department
• H7: Sexual Ethics
• H8: Financial Services
• H9: Single Assessment
• H10: Sexual Orientation as a Barrier to Call to Ministry or Eldership
• H11: Welcome Bay Community Church
• H12: Homosexuals and Gay People in Leadership
• H13: Supreme and Subordinate Standards, and Appropriate Process
• H14: Sexual Morality and the Ministry
• H15: Decision Making Structures
• H16: Book of Order Rewrite and Focal Identity Statement
• H17: Assembly Assessment
• H18: Financial Services Department
• H19: New Constitution of the Church
• H20: The Findings of the 2003 Judicial Commission
• H21: Trinity Church Property
• H22: Mission Resourcing
• H23: Sexual Morality and The Ministry
• H24: New Book of Order

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Petitions

• J1: Amalgamation of Hawkes Bay & Gisborne Presbyteries
• J2: Change in Boundary between Wanganui & Taranaki Presbyteries
• J3: The Amalgamation of the Wanganui & Taranaki Presbyteries
• J4: Change in Boundary between Wanganui & Taranaki Presbyteries

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