
(Click
above to navigate to a committee page)
Congregational Relations Committee (click
here)
Pastoral
oversight visits; training and developing congregational Ministry & Personnel
committees; liaison with
congregations in matters of pastoral conflict; Home Missions grants; congregational
governance; coordinate
with Pastoral Relations and Long Range Planning with respect
to needs for Interim Ministry; establish
relationships with leaders in each congregation.
Education & Students Committee (click
here)
Arrange
interviews, discernment committees, annual review for students
and candidates; organize
celebrations within presbytery on behalf of students; ensure
that those involved in these processes
are properly trained.
Faithful
Public Witness (click here)
Recommend to the presbytery acts of faithful public witness in
which we might or must be involved; celebrate the faithful public
witness being done by congregations within the presbytery,
including witness through the Mission and Service fund; encompassing
local, national and global witness.
Human
Resources (click
here)
Assignment
and nurturing of presbyters who are members of standing committees
and theme planning workgroups, including responsibility
for balancing committees with proper gender, age and other considerations; nominations
annually of presbytery executive officers, committee chairs and
vice-chairs; maintain
relations with congregational nominating committees; arrange special
honours as required.
Long
Range Planning (click here)
Assist
Presbytery in developing its policy around property; mantain
knowledge of property assets in our presbytery and possibilities
for development, amalgamation, or other changes in United Church
property; be our technical resource for congregations planning
changes, and congregations
considering
planning developments in the future; maintain
continuing relations with congregational property committees and
trustees.