The basic organizational plan for the local church
shall include provision for the following units: a charge
conference, a church council, a committee on pastor-parish relation,
a board of trustees, a committee on finance, a committee on
nominations and personnel, and such other elected leaders,
commissions, councils, committees, and task forces as the charge
conference may determine. Every local church shall develop a plan
for organizing its administrative and programmatic responsibilities.
Each local congregation shall provide a comprehensive program of
nurture, outreach, and witness along with leadership training, and
the planning and administration of the congregation’s
organizational and temporal life, in accordance with the mission of
The United Methodist Church.
(From The Book of Discipline of The United
Methodist Church—1996. Copyright © 1996 by The United Methodist
Publishing House. Used by permission.)
Resource Ministries includes these areas:
- Church Council Chairperson
- Administrative Board Chairperson
- Council on Ministries Chairperson
- Lay Leader
- Pastor-Parish/Staff-Parish Relations Committee
- Finance Chairperson
- Financial Secretary
- Trustees
- Church Treasurer
- Lay Member of Annual Conference
- Committee on Nominations and Personnel
- Church Historian
- Membership Secretary
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Resource Ministries