Speeches and additional documents
Speeches
Conveners of each council and committee present their reports throughout the General Assembly. Each speech will be published on this page at the same time that the convener begins delivering their report.
Saturday 18 May
- Assembly Arrangements Committee speech
- Council of Assembly speech
- Legal Questions Committee speech
- Lord High Commissioner's speech
- Moderator Rt Rev Colin Sinclair acceptance speech
- Retiring Moderator Very Rev Susan Brown speech
Monday 20 May
- Communion - General Assembly 2019
- Reply to Queen's Letter
- Social Care Council speech
- Special Commission Report speech
Tuesday 21 May
Wednesday 22 May
- Church and Society Council speech
- First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speech
- General Trustees speech
- Joint report on Sacramental Ministry speech
- Panel on Review and Reform speech
- Special Report of the Israel and Palestine Review Group speech
Thursday 23 May
- ACNS Ships speech
- Chaplains to Her Majesty’s Forces speech
- Church Hymnary Trustees speech
- Church of Scotland Trust speech
- Ecumenical Relations Committee speech
- Housing and Loan Fund speech
- Investors Trust speech
- Joint Emerging Church Group speech
- Ministries Council speech
- Pension Schemes Trustees speech
- Registration of Ministries Committee speech
- Theological Forum speech
Friday 24 May
- Iona Community Board speech
- Lord High Commissioner's closing speech
- Mission and Discipleship Council speech
- Moderator's speech at the closing of the General Assembly
- National Youth Assembly speech
- Nomination Committee speech
- Safeguarding Committee speech
Additional documents
- Notice of Motion form 2019
- Propose Elder to serve on Moderator Nomination Committee 2020
- Propose Minister Deacon to serve on Moderator Nomination Committee 2020
Moderator of the General Assembly - Worship
- Barriers to following - 22 Wednesday
- Follow him in service - 23 Thursday
- Follow me - 19 Sunday
- Follow me - 24 Friday
- Followers must see clearly - 21 Tuesday
- Following from a distance - 24 Friday
- The mark of a follower - 20 Monday
Assembly Arrangements Committee
- General Assembly 2018 feedback report
- Heart and Soul exhibitor survey analysed
- Heart and Soul visitor survey analysed
Ministries Council
- Deployment of Interim Ministries Team - March 2019
- Formation Framework
- Moving from the Long Term Illness Act XV 2002 to the new Ill Health Act 2019
- New Charge Development list - March 2019
- Presbytery Planning Tables of Adjustments 2018
- Resilience and Wellbeing in Ministry - full report
- Resilience and Wellbeing in Ministry - key findings
- Resilience and Wellbeing in Ministry – Executive Summary
- Review of current recruitment practice