Installation of new Presbyterian moderator to be live-streamed on internet

The Irish Presbyterian Church will install its new moderator, the Rev Dr David Bruce, on Monday night, June 1 at a service, uniquely live-streamed from Assembly Buildings, Belfast.
By The Newsroom
Published 23rd May 2020, 07:09 BST
The Moderator-Designate of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI), Rev David Bruce, will be installed on June 1The Moderator-Designate of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI), Rev David Bruce, will be installed on June 1
The Moderator-Designate of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI), Rev David Bruce, will be installed on June 1

The installation takes place on what would have been the opening night of this year’s general assembly, but the five-day gathering was cancelled due to the current coronavirus emergency.

Apart from technical support, only four people will be physically present – outgoing moderator, the Rev Dr William Henry, the Rev Dr David Bruce and the assembly clerk and deputy clerk the Revs Trevor Gribben and Jim Stothers.

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They will lead in prayer and praise and reading from the scriptures. Also taking part, but remotely via a video conferencing platform, will be the members of the 2020 standing commission.

Rev Gribben said: “If we think back to that cold winter’s evening of February 4, when our church’s 19 regional presbyteries nominated the Rev Dr David Bruce as our next moderator, who would have thought that so many of the things that we have taken for granted would have changed so much in such a short space of time?

“Our general assembly has been part of the fabric of our church life since 1840. It is the Presbyterian family coming together. A meeting has never been cancelled, only postponed, due to the national wartime emergency in 1940.”

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