Book of Occasional Services
Book of Common Worship was published in 1993, a prospectus was approved for a “Book of Occasional Services” and a task force was established to develop a “trial use resource, which will include ordination and installation services, in harmony with the Study on the Theology and Practice of Ordination, together with other occasional services for use by congregations, presbyteries, synods and the General Assembly” (minutes of the Theology and Worship Ministry Unit, January 28–30, 1993).
It was conceded that services for ordination and installation should not be included in the Book of Common Worship since the subject of ordination was under study by a special committee of the General Assembly. The preparation of such services, therefore, would be undertaken in concert with that study.