Commissioners to the 226th General Assembly discerned God’s will in numerous ways during the past six days. What follows are 10 of the most significant things they did at the Salt Palace Convention Center and in neighboring churches between June 29 and July 4.
“For GA Daily and the GA news team, that’s a wrap from Salt Lake City. Happy Fourth of July. We’ll see you in Milwaukee in 2026.”
With those words, GA Daily host Fred Tangeman concluded the final episode of GA Daily for the 226th General Assembly.
As people began filing out of the plenary hall at the close of business on the Assembly’s last day — no doubt to catch their earlier flights — the strains of Healey Willan’s “Finale Jubilante” filled the space.
With one hand each on their gavel, the Co-Moderators of the 226th General Assembly, the Rev. Tony Larson and the Rev. CeCe Armstrong, brought the Assembly to a close Thursday morning, jointly declaring “the 226th General Assembly now adjourned.”
Ensuring that everyone had a voice in the decision-making process of General Assembly was once again a major focus in Salt Lake City the past two weeks. Organizers introduced equity primes into the committee work as well as in plenaries themselves and they are making a difference.
On Wednesday, the Assembly approved Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the site of the 227th General Assembly. Milwaukee was selected from a pool of cities by the Committee on the Office of General Assembly (COGA) back in February. This location for the plenaries along with the recommendation to hold virtual committees prior to gathering as a whole assembly was sent to the General Assembly Procedures Committee for deliberation, a process which took time and energy.
The Rev. Sharyl Dixon, a teaching elder commissioner from the Presbytery of the Coastlands, came prepared when she arrived at Salt Lake City for the 226th General Assembly. She was equipped with a “snackle” box and over 100 “little Jesuses.”
Sarah Mibulano had a little problem.
The 19-year-old Young Adult Advisory Delegate from the Presbytery of Nevada — who emigrated to the U.S. from Congo with her family in 2015 — had her citizenship interview back in February and still hadn’t heard a word.
제226회 총회의 대의원과 자문단은 두 번의 본회의 끝에 총회 진행 규정을 전면적으로 변경하는 GAP-03을 통과시켰다. 수요일 밤, 대의원들은 368대 34의 표차로 총회 진행 규정 특별위원회가 제안한 변경안을 승인했다. 이 안건은 먼저 총회 절차 위원회에 상정되고 그 다음에 총회에 상정되었는데 이 과정에 18개월이 소요되었다.
It took portions of two plenary sessions for commissioners and advisory delegates to the 226th General Assembly to get through GAP-03, sweeping changes to the Standing Rules of the General Assembly. On Wednesday night, commissioners voted 368-34 to approve the changes proposed by the Special Committee on Standing Rules, which toiled for about 18 months to bring the item first to the General Assembly Procedures Committee and then to the Assembly itself.