Glen Waverley Uniting Church Elders Page

Elders Principles

Statement of Understanding between Elders and the Church Council

This Covenant between Elders and the Church Council that acknowledges individually and collectively Elders will:

  1. share with the Ministers the general spiritual and pastoral oversight of the congregation;
  2. nurture the members and adherents in their growth in grace;
  3. be prepared to act as mentors, intentionally exercising their individual gifts in appropriate forms of ministry, including faith formation and re-formation, formulating mission, and increasing Biblical literacy and awareness;
  4. take day to day responsibility for membership transfers, baptisms, and confirmation;
  5. assist the Ministers in the conduct of worship and in the administration of the sacrements;
  6. individually and collectively participate in the work of Council committees;
  7. maintain an awareness of the evolution of the congregation as a community of faith in relation to its Future Directions goals, and assist the congregation in its striving to achieve such goals;
  8. meet regularly as a group to provide a time for refreshing and renewing the spiritual growth of the Elders individually;
  9. advise the Church Council at least quarterly in relation to any or all of the actions listed above.
Agreed to by consensus of the Elders,
12 April 2000
Agreed to by consensus of Church Council.
19 July 2000
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