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Reworking Committees?

Mark Brantley-Gearhart recently posted this comment in the discussion about Clerks of Session. It’s a great start for beginning a conversation about Session committees:
“Last night our Session did something different. Instead of the annual assignment of committee chairpersons, we talked about options to committees. With the exception of the Nominating Committee (which is mandated [...]

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Is There Such a Thing as An Emergent Clerk of Session?

Once again, I’ll dip into the presbymergent brain trust with a question about the changing dynamics within my own congregation.
I love my “wee kirk,” which when I arrived back in 2003 was a group of about 17 stalwarts, the last folks standing in a suburban congregation that began it’s archetypal mainline deathspiral back in the [...]

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