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Keeping Up with General Assembly

Colin Carmichael — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:10:25 +0000

The 135th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada gets underway this weekend, but due to the recent population boom at my house (we had twins a few weeks ago), I won’t be attending GA in Hamilton.

Of course, I want to follow along as much as possible from home, as I’m sure you all do! Luckily, the staff at the Communications Office will be making regular updates to the website through the PCConnect-Daily newsfeed and on the General Assembly page itself.

Of course one of the best ways to follow and discuss an event like GA from afar is Twitter. If you’re familiar with Twitter and want to keep up with and comment on the Assembly proceedings, the Communications Office has established a hashtag specifically for GA. All Tweets related to GA should contain the hashtag: #pccga09

Even if you’re not a “Twitterer” yourself, you can follow the action on Twitter’s search page: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=pccga09 or a special page we’ve setup here at BeingPresbyterian: Live Coverage

If Facebook is more your thing, you can follow the proceedings through regular updates to the PCConnect Facebook Page.

I look forward to reading the reports from Hamilton and especially your comments on them!

Colin Carmichael
Associate Secretary, Communications (currently on leave)

Moderator Nominee is No Joke

Colin Carmichael — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:30:26 +0000

Yesterday was April 1st – April Fool’s Day. For those who read blogs daily it was a very long morning discerning the prank posts from the real deal. Sigh.

For this reason, the Communications Office specifically waited until 12:01pm (ish) – the traditional end of April Fool’s shenanigans – to make a very important announcement on PCConnect-Daily. That announcement was that Rev. Harvey Self would be the sole nominee for Moderator of the 135th General Assembly.

Rev. Harvey Self

If you missed the news yesterday, you might want to consider subscribing to PCConnect-Daily which you can do right here: http://www.presbyterian.ca/subscribe

Ballot Set for 2009 Moderator of Assembly

Colin Carmichael — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:15:23 +0000

In a message sent to the denomination through the PCC website at presbyterian.ca, Rev. Stephen Kendall, Principal Clerk of the General Assembly, announced the names that will appear on the ballot for the Moderator of the 135th General Assembly.

Those names are:

Ms. Marilyn Clarke, Elder, Knox Presbyterian Church, St. Catharines, Ontario
The Rev. Karen Hincke, Minister, St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, Peterborough, Ontario
The Rev. Richard Sand, Minister, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
The Rev. Harvey Self, Minister, Tweedsmuir Presbyterian Church, Orangeville, Ontario

The ballots will be counted and the Moderator of the 135th General Assembly will be announced on April 1st, 2009.