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News from GA06

This page will be updated daily with the latest news from GA06, which starts on Thursday 28 September.

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Thursday 28 September

• New Moderator installed in colourful opening service
• Te Aka Puaho - A year of celebration
• National tasks review
• National funding money matters

Friday 29 September

• GA06 confirms rule on sexuality and leadership
• Binding decision continues status quo of the past two years
• Martin Baker - New AES
• Compulsory retirement age for ministers abolished
• Make-up of Council of Assembly to change
• Revised Book of Order adopted

Saturday 30 September

• Review of the General Assembly meeting
• Winne Laban encourages Church to engage on margins
• Moderator Designate confirmed
• Licensing for ministry agreed
• Nominations Committee decisions questioned
• Centre for Christian Leadership gets go-ahead
• CASI proposals to General Assembly
• Focal Identity Statement: A work in progress

Sunday 1 October

• Overseas guests inspire Assembly
• ‘We are here for those who are absent’
• Outgoing Moderator urges ‘more courage and less caution’
• Supporting the servants
• Assembly Assessment

Monday 2 October

• Motions related to Assembly Assessment
• National nominations process under the spotlight
• Overture four lost