Notice from the Presbytery of International Charges

Read during morning worship on Sunday 16 March 2025

Notice is hereby given that the Vacancy Procedure Committee of the Presbytery of International Charges on 7th March 2025 approved the following course of action in regard to the charge of The Church of Scotland Geneva:

1. To release Rev Laurence Twaddle from the charge on 31st May 2025;

2. Determine that the charge will become vacant on 1st June 2025; and

3. Determine that the appointment of the Rev Graham Austin as Interim Moderator in the deferred linking of The Scots Kirk Lausanne with the charge will now relate to the prospective linking of The Scots Kirk Lausanne with the charge

This action will proceed unless at least four persons, who are either communicant members of this congregation of The Church of Scotland Geneva or full members of Presbytery, together or separately submit to the Presbytery Clerk a request for this proposal to be considered at the next meeting of the Presbytery. Any such request must set out the relevant reasons.

You should submit any such request by email to the Presbytery Clerk, Rev Derek Lawson, at clerk@internationalpresbytery.org by 24th March 2025.

If four valid requests are received, then the implementation of the foregoing course of action will be suspended and the approval of Presbytery will be required.

Notice is further given that the Presbytery of International Charges meeting in Paris on 7th March 2025 passed a Deliverance in the following terms:

"Presbytery agrees to the Basis of Deferred Linking of The Scots Kirk Lausanne and the Church of Scotland Geneva becoming a Basis of Linking; and encourage the Nominating Committee and the Interim Moderator in the ongoing process."

Derek G Lawson, Presbytery Clerk