PAPERS
Minutes : Reports : Sermons [Click underlined title to access the item.]
Conduct of Weddings and Funerals
(As agreed by Presbytery in June and October 1992)
Minutes of Meetings
2009
3
February : 7
March : 14
April : 5
May : 6
October : 3
November : 17 December
Reports
Final Report From Mission and Discipleship on Children/Family
Ministry within Edinburgh Presbytery.
Instructs the Mission and Discipleship Committee to review how best to resource
and support congregations in the work of ministry to families and young
people, and Safeguarding, by consulting with all congregations in the Presbytery,
and all other relevant bodies.
Instructs the Mission and Discipleship Committee to bring a report on resourcing
and ministering to families and young people, and Safeguarding.
"Unless the Lord builds the House". This received national publicity after the June 2009 Presbytery meeting and suggests that the issue that should most concern Christians in Edinburgh is whether or not we are engaged with the mission of Jesus Christ to our neighbours.
The Ecumenical Relations Committee has received a report from those who
visited Munich as part of the Partnership during 2008. View Invitation
- View Report
from visit.
The Convenor of the Deployment
of Resources Committee explains some of their thinking as they address
current challenges, plan for the future and manage change. November 2008.
Reports from the Children's Work
(from Margaret Grant, 2007)
Preparing
a Presbytery Plan Interim report - June 2005
Report
To Presbytery on Child Protection April 2004
Code of good practice for everyone, not just those working with the youth
organisations.
Background on "Parish Groupings" March 2004
Urgent need for change in the ways congregations operate.
Collaborative ministry the new way forward.
Two or more churches to work together over a single area.
Response
to the Prostitution Tolerance (Scottish) Bill February 2004
A look at tolerance zones and Margo MacDonald's Bill.
Removal of zones put lives at risk and increases danger to health.
Church
Without Walls 2003
Starting with relationships & reforming structures. A presbytery committee
looks at the CWW report. View further
reports which can be downloaded from the Church
of Scotland web site.
Reports from Children's Work 2007. (These are MS Word documents.)
Children's
Assemby
Notes
on ECCE Conference
CGMC
Conference in Bath
Report
to Presbytery
Sermons
HOLINESS AND FREEDOM, BELONGING AND DETACHMENT. Sermon from Presbytery Service on 3rd February 2009.