Via Email:
The first draft of the GAFCON Conference Statement was presented to the pilgrims on Friday, and was very well received. The respective provinces were then asked to discuss and study the draft document, and recommend additional comments and changes.
The Statement Committee will work on the proposals on Saturday, and present a final draft to the Leadership Team Saturday evening. The Media Team hopes to release the final statement, together with a press release, to accredited media around 10pm Saturday evening.
A printed version of the statement will also be presented and read to the pilgrims in the plenary on Sunday June 29, at 9.45am, for a brief final review and adoption.
There will be a press briefing at 2.00pm in the Delila Room of the Renaissance Hotel.
Since there seems to be some confusion in the comments over at SF as to the time difference between the US and Jerusalem, I thought I’d preempt such discussion here.
10 p.m. Sat night in Jerusalem is 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon in New York (Eastern Daylight Time).
Jerusalem is 7 hours later than New York.
Here’s a link you can click on via the World Clock site to know the time in Jerusalem:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=110
Dear Elves.
Dont you mean “ahead of New York”.
If as you say, 10 pm SATURDAY NIGHT is 3PM in New York, they might be on their way to bed at night, while we are still taking our “afternoon” naps.
Or am I confused, being a Grannie?
Gloria in SC
Grannie, you are correct about the time difference. But I deliberately avoided “ahead” as I find it confuses people. I thought “later” would be clearer. It is later in Jerusalem than the US. Anyway, that’s why I provided the World Clock link. It avoids the confusion of words and timezones and merely gives you the time in Jerusalem with one click.
To summarize the timeline: (using [b]Eastern Daylight[/b] times)
3 p.m. today (Saturday) the final communique will be released to the media (but I assume still embargoed until Sunday a.m.?, not sure about that)
2:45 a.m. Sunday morning: the communique will be reviewed and voted on by the GAFCON delegates
7 a.m. Sunday morning: Final GAFCON Press conference.
Hope that helps.