Voices from the Assembly Floor

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  • The Bigger Picture
    The assembly truly made a joyful noise.

    by Harvey Self
  • Lighting Committee Report
    A Young Adult Representatives skit
  • Try The Unthinkable
    The moderator of the 134th General Assembly challenges the Church. Again.

    by Cheol Soon Park
  • To Suffer For
    —Bert Douglas, student representative, Knox College
  • The Good Land
    —Sarah Thompson, student representative, Presbyterian College
  • Servant Leadership
    Standing shoulder to shoulder with the parishioners.

    —Brigadier General David Kettle, Chaplain General of the Canadian Armed Forces and a Presbyterian minister; Captain Dwight Nelson, Presbyterian chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces.
  • A Child of the Village
    —Andy Kuo, student representative, Vancouver School of Theology
  • ‘It was wrong’
    Help us repent.

    —Vivian Ketchum, a residential school survivor and member of the Healing and Reconciliation Advisory Committee of the PCC; Rev. Stewart Folster of the Ojibway people and Director of Saskatoon Native Circle Ministry
  • Ah Lazarus!
    —Matthew Donnelly
  • Indiginous Theology
    —Rev. Dr. Namoh Ising,Yu-Shan Theological College and Seminary, Hualien, Taiwan
  • Spiritual Questions
    —Jayne Self
  • A True Partnership
    —Rev. Dr. Ubon Bassey Usung, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria
  • Beyond Heather and Ploder
    —Rev. Bruce Adema, Director of the Christian Reformed Church in Canada and President of the Canadian Council of Churches
  • Court Tales
    Overtures, resolutions and other business.

    by Connie Purvis
  • A Man From Galilee
    —Archbishop Abuna Elias Chacour of Akka, Haifa, Nazareth and all of Galilee (Melkite Greek Catholic Church) and this year’s recipient of the E. H. Johnson Award
  • Baby Moderator
    Six-month-old Hannah de Jong was the youngest person to ever moderate the General Assembly
  • G.A. Blues
    tracks from Some Assembly Required, a CD by Angus Sutherland
  • Blogs
    Read our exclusive GA2009 blogs by Allyssa de Bruijn, Andrew Faiz and Jayne Self.