The Assembly Review 2026

AND WHAT AN ASSEMBLY THAT WAS! The former UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan outgoing Moderator, Dr Richard Murray, and the incoming Moderator, Dr Richard Kerr, made is reputed to have said, “Events, dear boy, events”, when describing how external events can strong statements condemning the violence on our streets. They both prayed for the victim of the trash even the best laid plans. General Assembly 2026 will be remembered vicious knife attack that triggered the protests, for many things, and they took time to pray for the police but the disorder As an Assembly we were aware of on our streets and emergency God’s presence and sovereignty services that were and the threat of disorder and the so stretched across disruption to public transport, were the events the city and in various towns. that saw business curtailed, the installation of Even so, as an Assembly we were aware of God’s presence and sovereignty. While our plans the Moderator rescheduled, with the close of the Assembly being late on Friday afternoon and not may have been disrupted, we still saw the mighty neatly tied up at lunchtime as planned. hand of God leading and enabling the work of his Church in this place. In relation to the external events, both the