The July/August Record reports that presbyteries and synods will yet again study the issue of biennual assemblies and respond in 2010.
When I was last a commissioner to the General Assembly in June 1994, that assembly voted against biennial assemblies, which was not how I voted. It seemed to me then, and seems to me more than 15 years later, that we do not need to meet every year. Think of the money we could save to be put to better use by Presbyterians Sharing. What I did notice at the 1994 assembly, and I know it is the same in 2009, is that it is a chance for ministers to have a reunion with their cronies! But at what expense to us all? I urge all to vote for a biennial assembly!
