Timetable

DAY 1 – Saturday 18 May – 9.30 am

SESSION 1

Opening of the General Assembly
1. Constitution of Assembly.
2. Roll of Commissioners laid on the table.
3. Election of Moderator and Prayer of Consecration.
4. Commission to the High Commissioner to be read and order given for recording it.
5. Her Majesty’s Letter to be read and order given for recording it.
6. Address by the High Commissioner and Reply by the Moderator.
7. Address by Retiring Moderator.
8. Appointment of Committee to prepare Answer to Her Majesty’s Gracious Letter.
9. Report of Standing Committee on Commissions.
10. Submission of Standing Orders.
11. Appointment of Committee for arranging Order of Business.
12. Appointment of Panel of Tellers.
13 Appointment of Committee to prepare Minute on Deceased Ministers, Missionaries and Deacons.
14. Intimation of arrangements for celebration of Holy Communion

Circulation break

SESSION 2

1. Presentation of Delegates and Visitors.
2. Report of the Assembly Arrangements Committee
3. Report of the Scottish Bible Society and Presentation of Bible to Moderator.
4. Report of the Delegation of the General Assembly
5. Minute of the Commission of Assembly
6. Minutes of the Appeal Hearing before the Judicial Commission

Lunch

SESSION 3

1. Report of the Committee on Returns to Overtures
2. Report of the Legal Questions Committee
3. Overture from the Presbytery of Inverness

Circulation break

SESSION 4

1. Report and Supplementary Report of the Council of Assembly – except Radical Action Plan 

DAY 2 - Sunday 19 May

10.00 am - Assembly Service (St Giles’).
12.30 pm - Gaelic Service (Greyfriars’ Kirk).
1.00 pm - 6.00 pm – ‘Heart and Soul 2019’

DAY 3 - Monday 20 May – 9.15 am

HOLY COMMUNION

Circulation Break

SESSION 5

1. Constitution of Assembly.
2. Report of the Business Committee.
3. Reply to the Queen’s Letter.
4. Report of the Special Commission on Structural Refor

Lunch

SESSION 6

1. Special Commission contd.

Circulation Break

SESSION 7

1. Report of the Social Care Council

DAY 4 – Tuesday 21 May – 9.15 am

SESSION 8

1. Constitution of Assembly.
2. Minutes.
3. Report of the Council of Assembly – Radical Action Plan
4. Petition from the Kirk Session of Duns and District Parishes

Circulation Break

SESSION 9
1. Radical Action Plan – contd.

Lunch

SESSION 10

1. Report of the World Mission Council
2. Special Report of the Israel and Palestine Review Group

Circulation Break

SESSION 11
1. Report of the Church of Scotland Guild
2. Report of the Safeguarding Committee
3. Report of the Iona Community Board

DAY 5 – Wednesday 22 May – 9.15 am

SESSION 12

1. Constitution of Assembly.
2. Minutes.
3. Report and Supplementary Report of the Church and Society 

Circulation Break

SESSION 13

1. Church and Society Council contd.

Lunch

SESSION 14

1. Moderator’s Shield - Order of the Day 2pm.
2. Report of the General Trustees

Circulation Break

SESSION 15

1. Report of the Panel on Review and Reform
2. Joint report from the Panel on Review & Reform, the Theological Forum, the Ecumenical Relations Committee and the Legal Questions Committee on Sacramental Ministry
3. Report of the Committee on Ecumenical Relations
4. Report of the Theological Forum

DAY 6 – Thursday 23 May – 9.15 am

SESSION 16
1. Constitution of Assembly.
2. Minutes.
3. Report of the Committee on Chaplains to Her Majesty’s Forces

Circulation Break

SESSION 17

1. Report of the Ministries Council
2. Overture from the Presbytery of lnternational Charges 

Lunch

SESSION 18

1. Ministries Council contd.
2. Report of the Joint Emerging Church Group
3. Report of the Registration of Ministries Committee

Circulation Break

SESSION 19

1. Report of the Chalmers Lectureship Trust 
2. Report of the Church of Scotland Pension Trustees 
3. Report of the Housing and Loan Fund
4. Report of the Church Hymnary Trustees 
5. Report of the Church of Scotland Trust
6. Report of the Church of Scotland Investors Trust

DAY 7 – Friday 24 May – 9.15am

SESSION 20
1. Constitution of Assembly.
2. Protestations called for.
3. Report on the Printing of Acts.
4. Draft Minutes of Sederunts not yet submitted to be read if required.
5. Report of the Nomination Committee
6. Report of the Selection Committee.
7. Report of the National Youth Assembly 2018
8. Report of the Mission and Discipleship Council

Lunch

SESSION 21 – 3pm
1. Constitution of Assembly.
2. Report anent Deceased Ministers, Missionaries and Deacons.
3. Appointment of Committee to revise Minutes.
4. Act Appointing Commission of Assembly.
5. Act Appointing Diet of Next General Assembly.
6. Presentations to the Moderator.
7. Moderator addresses the General Assembly.
8. The High Commissioner addresses the General Assembly.
NATIONAL ANTHEM
9. Dissolution of the General Assembly.
THE BENEDICTION

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