Coverage of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, including a report on what is a call to ministry and another on assisted dying.
The Church of Scotland is adapting to being a smaller size, with fewer churches and fewer ministers. The General Assembly - the annual gathering of ministers and elders from across Scotland and around the world - considers how to be a church in a new environment. Its five days of wide-ranging discussion includes a review of how ministers should be recruited, trained and called to congregations, and how the Church should respond to the assisted dying debate.
The programme includes film of three new ministers and their new congregations, and asks how both sides had a sense of the call of God to their work. A second film shows one of the Church’s longest-serving dealing with dialysis and cancer, and facing the unique choices he has about how best to live his end-of-life days, weeks and months.
