The General Assembly, in seeking to promote the interests of the Sustentation Fund, and in order to ensure the optimum use of available financial and the human resources, ordain as follows with regard to centrally supported ministries: The General Assembly note that the projected financial burden on the Home …
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The General Assembly instruct Presbyteries, through their Pastoral Committees, to take responsibility for ensuring that regular consultation is engaged in with ministers affected by questions of financial sustainability. They further instruct that such consultation shall include examination of the ministerial gifts and full exploration of options matching these gifts …
The General Assembly direct presbyteries within whose bounds redevelopment charges are located to ensure that adequate support is promised and given to these congregations so that the purpose of redevelopment charges may be properly fulfilled. …
The General Assembly instruct the Board of Trustees to consult with the Training of the Ministry Committee with regard to the provision of leadership training for office bearers. They further instruct the Committee to work with Presbyteries to provide training for members in identifying and using their spiritual gifts. …
The General Assembly instruct Presbyteries to identify significant minority groups within their bounds, paying particular but not exclusive attention to impoverished and socially excluded communities and those actively involved in alternative spiritualities and to assist appropriately placed congregations to reach out to such communities. …
The General Assembly authorise the Sustentation and Ministry Committee to consider any applications for appointment as a Chaplain to Forces as part of their remit. …
1. The General Assembly enact and ordain that team ministries shall be established to serve groups of more than one congregation. Such arrangements shall be authorised by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Home Missions Board after consultation with the Presbytery concerned. Team ministries may be set …
The General Assembly, with consent of a majority of Presbyteries, enact and ordain that: Whereas it is desirable that the Admission of Ministers and Probationers from other denominations or churches should be effected by the General Assembly, it is hereby enacted and ordained that: 1. No minister or probationer …
The General Assembly endorse the principle that, in holding a charge, a minister is obliged to occupy the manse. They further ordain that authorisation for the sale of a manse on the grounds that a minister may wish to occupy his own house be refused. The General Assembly endorse …
The General Assembly enact as follows: Leave of Absence Absence from duty is designated ‘leave’ and 2 categories are recognised: 1. Sick Leave. 2. Leave for reasons other than illness. 5. Leave of Absence for Foreign Missionaries Leave of Absence for foreign missionaries shall be granted in accordance with …