1 The General Assembly call upon all ministers to ensure that they take adequate time off and that they take up their full quota of holidays each year. 2 The General Assembly urge all Deacons’ Courts to ensure that they pay for pulpit supply during ministers’ holiday periods. 3 …
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The General Assembly decree that congregations in receipt of grants from the Church and Manse Building Fund for major projects shall not make appeals to the Church at large without the express approval of the Presbytery of the bounds and the Finance, Law and Advisory Committee. …
The General Assembly, considering that circumstances may arise in which already existing congregations wish to procure either replacement or additional buildings and that there has not been established any regular mechanism for the Church as a whole to assist in such cases, hereby authorise the Church and Manse Building …
The General Assembly, desiring that the fabric of churches, halls and manses be preserved from decay, that the cost of repairs be lessened by constant attention to the condition of buildings, and that the church be not burdened by the upkeep of buildings no longer fully utilised, enact that; …
The General Assembly direct that all Deacons’ Courts and local Finance Committees note the advice of the General Trustees regarding the organisation of building work. The advice is as follows: All professional services should be the subject of a written contract paid for at prescribed rates and the documentation …
The General Assembly direct that the Communion Roll being an essential record for the purposes of the election of office-bearers and the election and calling of a minister shall be submitted annually to the Presbytery by all congregations, for examination. The General Assembly recognise that only Congregational Meetings called …
The General Assembly noting that Finance Committees exist in many congregations without the benefit of formal legislative recognition enact that the following regulations shall apply to the appointment and duties of Finance Committees: (1) In ordinary circumstances a congregational finance committee shall be appointed only in the absence of …
The General Assembly remind Deacons’ Courts (and Finance Committees in Congregations where such exist in place of Deacons’ Courts) that it is the duty of Office-bearers to encourage individual contributions by Members and Adherents to the Sustentation Fund and that, when such have been made and entrusted to Deacons’ …
Whereas it is desirable that the existing and constitutional law of the Church respecting the business to be transacted in Deacons’ Courts, and the relation of these courts to the superior judicatories, and respecting the jurisdiction of Kirk-sessions, should be clearly known, the General Assembly declare- 1. That the …