CHURCH OFFICER NOMINATIONS

This year’s Nominating Committee invites you to serve by suggesting members of our church family to be considered to serve in the offices of Elder, Deacon and members of the 2025 Nominating Committee.

Find a recommendation form link below and additional information.

Use the link below to place your recommendation to the Nominating Committee. Use one entry per person you’d like to recommend. Entries will remain confidential. The deadline to submit a recommendation is October 1.

RULING ELDERS

Together with Teaching Elders (ministers), Ruling Elders exercise leadership, government, and discipline and have responsibilities for the life of the church.

• Ruling Elders serve on the Session, which is the body that establishes and oversees the direction of the church’s ministry, program, and budget. Elders are also asked to chair and serve on committees of session.  The Session and committees meet monthly.
• Elders should be persons of faith, dedication, and good judgment. Their manner of life should be a demonstration of the Christian gospel, both within the church and in the world.
• It is the duty of the elders to strengthen and nurture the faith and life of the congregation.
• Together with the pastors, they should encourage the people in the worship and service of God, and equip and renew them for their tasks within the church and for the mission in the world.
• Elders occasionally assist in worship.

DEACONS

The office of deacons as set forth in Scripture is one of sympathy, witness, and service after the example of Jesus Christ.  Deacons serve in compassionate ministry.

• Deacons organize and serve in ministries to engage people and groups in Christ’s service. Deacons meet monthly or more frequently if a particular program or project requires this.
• Deacons should be persons of spiritual character, honest repute, exemplary lives, brotherly and sisterly love, warm sympathies, and sound judgment.
• It is the duty of deacons, first of all, to minister to those who are in need, to the sick, to the friendless, and to any who may be in distress both within and beyond the community of faith.

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

The Nominating Committee members take suggestions from church members, along with their own candidates, and prayerfully determine whom they will nominate to serve as elders, deacons, and members of the nominating committee.

In considering persons to recommend, you may wish to reflect on the following:

• Is this person faithful in his/her attendance and commitment to the church?
• Does this person demonstrate Christian living in his/her daily life, within the family, at work in the community?
• Is this person involved in this congregation’s activities?
• Has this person demonstrated leadership ability through involvement in other community organizations or service at other churches?
• Can this person fulfill the requirements of the office, i.e., attend the meetings?

Consider in your recommendation references to leadership and qualifications from the Presbyterian Book of Order G-2.0201 and G-2.0301, and scripture references: I Timothy 3:1-13 and Titus 1:5-9.