Assembly
Arrangements
This Committee plans
and budgets for General Assembly.
Committee Members
Convener: Mr
William M McVey Secretary: Ann Barton
Moderator,
Moderator-elect, General Secretary, Clerk to Assembly,
Convener of Local
Arrangements Committee for the relevant year.
1 General Assembly
2007
The Committee brings a
resolution that the Assembly of 2007 should be held at the University of
Manchester (Fallowfield Campus) from 7th to 10th July. [Resolution 19]
2 The way we are
The Committee has met
three times since General Assembly 2004. The number of meetings and the brevity
of this report belie the time and consideration that has been given to the form
and content of General Assembly both now and in the future. The location of
General Assembly is booked up to three years ahead in order to secure a venue
sufficient to accommodate the number attending. Both the numbers of people and,
to some extent, the facilities at each venue, restrict the opportunity for
various ways of working; the shortage of time too, imposes a constraint. An
interim move was made at General Assembly 2004 by returning District Council
representation to a ratio closer to our 1972 origins. This will not have been
without its disadvantages.
3 The way we could be
More radical proposals
are contained within the Catch the Vision report. General Assembly consisting of
250 people meeting for a longer time every two years would provide many exciting
opportunities: better fellowship, deeper relationships, more time for prayerful
consideration of each issue and greater individual responsibility leading to
truly corporate decisions led by the Spirit.
4 Acknowledgements
General Assembly involves
immensely detailed planning. The Committee is grateful for the work of the staff
of Communications and Editorial, without whom we would have no Book of Reports
or the visual material at Assembly itself. The Committee is also indebted to
Revd Wilf Bahadur who maintains a close watch on the detailed logistics during
Assembly – and to the many people from the Synod who give up their time to
steward at Assembly. The Committee particularly wishes to thank Ann Barton in
her first year as Secretary – a role that encompasses much more than the simple
title implies.
Resolution 19
General Assembly 2007
Assembly agrees that
the General Assembly in 2007 will meet at the University of Manchester (Fallowfield
Campus) from 7th to 10th July.
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