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Minutes
You can download the confirmed minutes of General Assembly 2008 in pdf format
Take-home information
You can download a summary of key decisions from GA08 in two different formats:
Photographs
You might want some photos to accompany the powerpoint presentation, or for your newsletter. These are high res photos in jpeg format:
- The opening service at St John's in the City, Wellington
- Former Moderators lay hands on the Right Rev Dr Graham Redding during the opening service
- The Right Rev Dr Graham Redding celebrates communion
- The business hall at GA08
- Keynote speaker Professor Randall Prior
- Musician and ordinand Malcolm Gordon with his band
Assembly Voices newspaper
You can download the newspaper distributed every day onsite at GA08
- Assembly Voices GA08 day 1
- Assembly Voices GA08 day 2
- Assembly Voices GA08 day 3
- Assembly Voices GA08 day 4
Keynote speeches
Mp3 files and explanatory notes of Professor Randall Prior's keynote speeches can be found on this page.
Celebration of 100 years of mission in North India
Download the lyrics of the song played by Jordan Redding at the cocktail function on Wednesday 1 October. This file is in Powerpoint format.
Opening service - order of service
Download PDF of complete order of service
Opening service - sermon
Download PDF of sermon by the Right Rev Dr Graham Redding
Sunday service - order of service
Download PDF of complete order of service
Sunday service - sermon
Download PDF of sermon by the Right Rev Dr Graham Redding
“Let me die working”
At General Assembly, Jordon Redding performed the hymn “Let me die working”, with the words of the Very Rev J L Grey set to music that Jordon had composed. You can download the words and the music, both as pdf documents.
Some background information from Moderator the Right Rev Dr Graham Redding:
"The lyrics of the hymn were penned by J L Gray and included in his unpublished memoirs, but without any tune. I was reading the memoirs in the lead-up to the General Assembly. I had a personal interest in J L Gray. He was a predecessor of mine at Somervell Presbyterian Church in Auckland, and one of his sons, Scott Gray, is a stalwart of Highgate Church in Dunedin, where I currently worship. J L Gray had also spent a considerable amount of his life as a missionary in North India, and at this Assembly we celebrated 100 years of Presbyterian mission activity there. I was struck by the words of the hymn. I gave them to my son, Jordan, who enjoys composing music. Jordan put the words to music and we sang the hymn on the evening of the centenary celebrations, which were held the night before the General Assembly and attended by Scott Gray, and at the close of the General Assembly."