The General Assembly, seeking to revise the Governance Arrangements of Edinburgh Theological Seminary in respect of the Roles and Remits of the Senate, the ETS Principal and the ETS Board, enact and ordain the following: The Senate. The Senate is the Seminary’s senior academic authority and is authorised to …
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The General Assembly declare that the remit of the ETS Centre for Mission be as follows: To promote serious engagement with mission studies, and reflective participation in mission practice, among ETS staff and students by means of formal academic courses and other mission-focused events. To engage in, and foster, …
The General Assembly declare that the appointment of two Assistant Assembly Clerks of Assembly would be beneficial for the safe and effective operation of the Assembly Clerk’s Office. They further declare that appointments be made to fill any vacancies with such appointments effective from the rising of this Assembly. …
The General Assembly direct that the responsibility for the printing of the Acts of the Assembly be passed to the Assembly Clerks’ Office. They declare that this arrangement supersedes the requirement of The Practice of the Free Church of Scotland, Eighth Edition, Chapter 4, Paragraph 16.5, that this duty …
The General Assembly, taking cognisance of the importance of guarding the Church from risk arising from the decisions of the Courts of the Church, and the importance of giving careful attention to the records of Presbyteries, direct that Presbytery records be submitted annually to the Assembly Business Committee for …
The General Assembly, with consent of a majority of Presbyteries, and noting that since the suspension of statutory meetings of Synods under the terms of Act 41, Class 2, 2009, the dates of such meetings are no longer meaningful in the Church’s calendar, hereby enact and ordain that: Presbyteries …