General Assembly

The General Assembly is the governing body of the whole church and the highest court of appeal in judicial matters. It consists of approximately 150 voting commissioners, including the moderator and stated clerk of the previous assembly and such ministers and ruling elders as are commissioned by their respective presbyteries. The Seventy-eighth General Assembly will convene at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at Sandy Cove Conference Center, Northeast, Maryland, with a terminus no later than Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 12:00 noon.

General Assembly News and Reports

The Seventy-seventh General Assembly met in Palos Heights, Illinois, July 7-14, 2010. Click on one of the links below to read more about the General Assembly.

• 2010 General Assembly Report
• 77th GA Letter to Department of Defense
• Documents Pertaining to the 2011 Revision to the Directory for Public Worship
• Summary of requests made by the Seventy-seventh General Assembly to Orthodox Presbyterian Churches for 2011 (PDF)

General Assembly Papers

General Assembly papers are thoughtful and weighty treatises on important matters but do not have the force of constitutional documents, namely, our Confession of Faith and Catechisms and Book of Church Order. Click here to access the papers.

Operating Documents

The following documents provide the procedural framework for meetings of the General Assembly:

• Standing Rules of GA [PDF]
• Instruments of GA [PDF]

Personnel

• Alan Pontier, moderator of the 77th General Assembly
• George Cottenden, stated clerk