1. The General Assembly note that the Schedules for use in Quinquennial Visitations are being updated and commend their use to the Presbyteries of the Church when available. They instruct presbyteries who choose not to use these Schedules to ensure nonetheless that the Social Responsibility Section of the Schedule …
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The General Assembly ordain that it shall not be competent for Presbyteries to meet during Monday to Thursday of those weeks in March and October when the Commission of Assembly is appointed to meet or the week in June appointed for Assembly committees except for urgent business. …
The General Assembly instruct Presbyteries, through their Pastoral Committees, to take responsibility for ensuring that regular consultation is engaged in with ministers affected by questions of financial sustainability. They further instruct that such consultation shall include examination of the ministerial gifts and full exploration of options matching these gifts …
The General Assembly direct presbyteries within whose bounds redevelopment charges are located to ensure that adequate support is promised and given to these congregations so that the purpose of redevelopment charges may be properly fulfilled. …
The General Assembly, noting with concern the increased number of ministers absent from duty for health reasons in recent years, commend them and their families and congregations to the prayers of the Church. They instruct presbyteries to ensure that the requirements of Act XXIV, 2003, with reference to Pastoral …
The General Assembly instruct Presbyteries to identify significant minority groups within their bounds, paying particular but not exclusive attention to impoverished and socially excluded communities and those actively involved in alternative spiritualities and to assist appropriately placed congregations to reach out to such communities. …
The General Assembly deem it appropriate to specify a code of regulations with reference to applications for a seat in a Presbytery from ministers who have demitted their charges. In doing so the General Assembly recognise that the primary consideration is the good of the Church. They therefore ordain …
The General Assembly noting the almost total support accorded to the Overture regarding Problem Ministries enact as follows: The General Assembly, being sadly aware that difficulties prejudicial to the work of the Gospel sometimes arise in congregations, and though not of such a kind as to involve regular disciplinary …
The General Assembly amend Act 24, 1989 anent Consultation with Presbyteries by the Church Extension and Sustentation Committee as amended by Act 10, Class 2, 2009 anent Consultation with Presbyteries, to read: The General Assembly, considering that the Mission Board should be informed of proposals before Presbyteries affecting charges …
The General Assembly direct the Sustentation, Supply and Buildings Maintenance Committee to issue to presbytery clerks copies of the Recommended Procedure for Quinquennial Visitation and copies of visitation schedules, to receive representations from presbyteries as to how improvements might be made in the recommended procedure and visitation schedules, and …