General Assembly 2025

Summary of GA25 decisions & news

See the GA25 Summary of Decisions & News page here (and also in the menu to the left) for a full summary of GA25 - decisions, video, media coverage, addresses to the Assembly, Moderator messages, leader profiles, and photos. 

About GA25

GA25 venue & dates
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GA2025 website
Moderator, theme and GA25 logo

General Assembly: Mon 20 October - Thurs 23 October 2025 at St Paul’s Trinity Pacific Church, Christchurch

Our General Assembly venue for 2025 will be St Paul’s Trinity Pacific Church, Christchurch, 45 Fitzgerald Ave, Christchurch central (cnr of Fitzgerald Ave & Alfred St). Assembly will begin with a Mihi Whakatau around 1pm with the Opening Service inside St Paul's Trinity shortly after 1pm on Monday 20 October, and conclude following the closing service on Thursday 23 October around 1pm.  

GA25 News - General Assembly daily summary email

Closed: Just enter your name and email below to receive during the General Assembly emails with a summary of the latest decisions made by our Assembly and related events. We will update the Church website each day too. Sign up now. Just like for GA23, this year there will be a daily summary of key decisions, as noted by the Business Assembly Work Group during business, plus links to video of the business sessions for full context. We will also have live video of the installation of the Moderator, the address by the outgoing Moderator, and closing service. So even if you aren't there, you can sign up to keep up with the GA. See all the daily summaries here.

GA25 Website

General Assembly 2025 Local Arrangements Committee launched their dedicated General Assembly website  to the Church on 2 July in the Church's subscriber newsletter, Bush Telegraph.

For information on the GA25 programme, registration, venue, transport, accommodation, meals etc see the GA25 website https://ga2025.nz/  Contact Assembly Coordinator Hayley Payne, email ga25@presbyterian.org.nz 

The GA25 website shares information on the Moderator Designate's theme for the GA and his moderatorship: We Believe. Peter has shared how he chose the design for his logo, you can read more on the GA25 website under 'Vision' or see also this information below.

See Assembly GA video updates on the website here.
 

Moderator & GA25 theme

  The Right Rev Peter Dunn of Invercargill is the new leader of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. Peter was elected Moderator designate by the Church at GA23 and was inducted as Moderator at the 2025 General Assembly. See more on Moderator Right Rev Peter Dunn here.

Peter has chosen for his Moderator term the theme, We Believe. 

I have in my mind a picture of a braided river, well known to South Islanders. Mighty rivers that carry significant volumes of water in many channels, where a single channel can be a river in itself until it meets another channel, and the scene changes. The connection with the theme is that, as a Church, we can be described metaphorically as a braided river. Alive, directional, flexible, life-giving, unstoppable in our expressions of the Christian faith, unless it becomes disconnected from its source.

‘We believe’ is about the source, our Lord Jesus Christ. ‘We believe’ is about the flow of the river through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. ‘We believe’ is about the banks that hold the braided river, where the Father is hands-on, as it were, moulding and maintaining the river within the boundaries of what we believe.

The moderatorial logo features the Cross from which the braided river flows, with the context prominently displayed, ‘We Believe’. It is my prayer that as people engage with the theme at GA25 and during my term as moderator, our unity in Christ will be affirmed.