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Keeping Up with General Assembly

General Assembly logoThe 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)

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Moderator Nominee is No Joke

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

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

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Catching Up

It’s been a busy two weeks or so – so here are a few quick items that I’ve been meaning to pass along:

PCConnect-TV is Coming!
The Communications team has been busily preparing for the launch of PCConnect-TV, the new weekly video series being produced by the Communications Office to showcase the life and work of The PCC across Canada and around the world. The first episode is scheduled to air on Youtube and at Presbyterian.ca on April 10th.

An Innovative Church Blog
Rev. John Borthwick of St. Andrew’s, Guelph is the interim moderator for Knox Crieff and has taken an interesting approach to documenting the search process – he’s blogging it! I haven’t had a chance to talk to John about the hows and whys yet, but I hope to get an episode of the BeingPresbyterian Podcast out of it. :)

More Innovation – Write your own Job Description!
The folks at St. John’s, Toronto have taken an interesting approach to their search for a new Family Outreach and Christian Education Worker. As was reported in PCConnect-Daily today, the congregation is inviting applicants to write their own job descriptions within the parameters of stated goals and objectives. The chair of the search committee, Laurie McGugan, said that this unique approach was inspired by her committee’s reading of Christianity for the Rest of Us.

More to come soon!

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