Annual Report

The Constitution requires that Presbytery be responsible and accountable for the ministry performed within its bounds. Redstone Presbytery uses this form in an attempt to fulfill its responsibility for the ministries its members conduct.

Item IV is most important. The criteria were adopted so that a Presbytery would have latitude in determining its own interpretation of valid ministry.

It is your responsibility in filling out this form to describe the way in which the ministry which you are performing fulfills all of the criteria which have been set forth in the Form of Government. It will be most helpful for your Presbytery Committee on Ministry if you use detail in describing the objectives of your ministry and the fashion in which that ministry is conducted.

This form is to be returned to the Stated Clerk of Redstone Presbytery before February 14, 2010.

( ) Full-time ( ) Part-time regular position in interdenominational work approved

III. Your report on employment during past year (list all full or part-time positions held,

whether secular or religious, including self-employment for which income was earned. Describe positions giving name and address of employing body or write “not so employed.”

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IV. Your justification for continued membership in Presbytery. (Do not fill in if you are

The Form of Government, Chapter XI, G-11.0403, requires that presbyteries use all of the following criteria in determining who shall be its continuing members.

a. The ministry of continuing members shall be in demonstrable conformity with the mission of

God’s people in the world as set forth in Holy Scripture, the Book of Confessions, and the Book of Order of this Church.

b. The ministry shall be one that serves others, aids others, and enables the ministries of others.

c. The ministry shall give evidence of theologically informed fidelity to God’s Word. This will normally require the Master of Divinity degree or its equivalent and the completion of the requirements for ordination set forth in G-14.0482.

d. The ministry shall be carried on in accountability for its character and conduct to the presbytery and to organizations, agencies, and institutions.

e. The ministry shall include responsible participation in the deliberation and work of the presbytery and in the worship and service of a congregation.

In what ways are you actively related to the life and work of a particular church?

In what other religious or ecclesiastical activities have you been engaged during the past year?

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