The 2017 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland took place in Assembly Buildings in Belfast from Monday evening, 5th June and closed on Friday, 9th June.

Attended by approximately 1,000 ministers and elders from the Church’s 500-plus congregations across Ireland, members discussed and debated nearly 100 resolutions over three and a half days.

In this section you will find information relating to the 2017 General Assembly.

Assembly Business

Details of each day’s business before the General Assembly can be found here.
 

The Blue Book & Annual Reports

The reports and corresponding resolutions that will be discussed and debated during the course of the week can be found here.

Additional reports and resolutions written since the The Blue Book went to print can be found here in the Supplementary Reports. These will be uploaded when they are published.
 

Daily Minutes

After the close of business each day draft Daily Minutes:

• Draft daily minutes for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sessions
• Draft daily minutes for the 4th and 5th Sessions
• Draft daily minutes for the 6th and 7th Sessions
• Draft daily minutes for the 8th and final Session

Media

Today at the Assembly

You will find a short news story about each day’s business here:

• Today at the General Assembly - Tuesday 6th June
• Today at the General Assembly - Wednesday 7th June
• Today at the General Assembly - Thursday 8th June
• Today at the General Assembly - Friday 9th June

Yesterday at the Assembly

You will find a short news story reviewing the previous day’s business here:

• Yesterday at the General Assembly - 6th June
• Yesterday at the General Assembly - 7th June
• Yesterday at the General Assembly - 8th June
• Yesterday at the General Assembly - 9th June

News stories

You can read the news stories that relate to the 2017 General Assembly here:

1. New Moderator: We need to share the Good News

2. Meet Dr. McNeely

3. All welcome to Wednesday Night Celebration

4. General Assembly opens next week

5. Moderator: ‘It’s been a privilege to serve’

6. Incoming Moderator receives honorary degree

7. County Down minister to be next Moderator

 

General Assembly video

To get a a sense of the of the 2017 General Assembly, including the installation of the Moderator, Rt. Rev. Dr. Noble McNeely, times of worship and debate, fringe meetings and general atmosphere, you can watch this short video.

Blogs

You can read the blogs that relate to the 2017 General Assembly here:

1. The view from the chair
    
2. A privilege to serve
    

You can review General Assembly Tweets @pciassembly using the hashtag #PCIGA17.

2017 Summary Report

The General Assembly Summary Report contains details of some of the decisions that that were taken at the 2017 General Assembly. While not a formal annual report as such, it contains over 50 articles and features across 44-pages providing a flavour of the diverse work that the Church has been engaged in since the previous General Assembly in 2016.

Copies of the Summary Report  can be downloaded here. Limited numbers in a hard copy format are also available from Assembly Buildings in Belfast.

2018 General Assembly

The 2018 General Assembly will take place from the evening of Monday, 4th June with the formal election and installation of the new Moderator. Business will commence on Tuesday morning and will close on Friday, 8th June #PCIGA18