MINISTRY & MISSION

Ministry & Mission: coordinates and promotes the formation, development and staffing of healthy, mature Presbyterian churches so that God might be praised through the salvation and sanctification of His people.

Comprising 12 people (six ministers, no less than three Elders and up to three Communicants), the Ministry and Mission Committee has its own Superintendent, who must be a minister.

The committee’s duties include:

• Facilitate the deployment of ordained ministers
• Recruit home missionaries, supervise their training and superintend their appointment to fields where ordained ministers are not available or as assistants to ministers
• Maintain gospel ministry by providing financial and personal assistance in appropriate fields of mission
• Supervise all matters relating to the working conditions of ministers and home missionaries and promote their personal welfare
• Review, at least annually, minimum terms of settlement or appointment for ministers, home missionaries and deaconesses and make appropriate recommendations to the General Assembly
• Examine, at least annually, minimum terms of settlement of appointment for ministers, home missionaries and deaconesses and approve or disapprove of them as appropriate
• Examine all proposed terms of employment for any position of temporary or supply ministry whether in a pastoral charge or home mission station and approve or disapprove them as appropriate
• Research and regulate all matters affecting the erection, suppression, union or readjustment or parishes
• Initiate cooperative ministries with other denominations as may be appropriate
• Review proposals for sale, transfer or disposal or redundant or surplus congregations assets
• Operate a loan fund to provide low-interest loans to congregations, ministers, home missionaries, deaconesses, graduating students and full-time workers to acquire cars for use in ministry
• Operate a long service leave fund
• Promote the training of lay people for ministry and mission
• Coordinate the work of Defence Force chaplains

More information: http://mm.pcnsw.org.au

CONTACT:

Convener: Rev Jeff Read
Mail: c/ Church Offices
PO Box 2196,
Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2012

Superintendent: Rt Rev Bruce Meller
Phone: (02) 9690 9318 (Office)
Fax: (02) 9310 2148
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Associate Superintendent: Rev John Irvin
Phone: (02) 9690 9317
Fax: (02) 9310 2148
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Cross Cultural Coordinator: Rev Mike Wilson
Phone: (02) 9690 9348
Mobile: 0425 239 801
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