Shepherding Team

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a catalyst for God’s work in the world.

• Connectionalism: assuring the connectional life of the presbytery between congregations, between neighborhoods, and between the Synod of South Atlantic and General Assembly.
• Ecumenism: coordinate all ecumenical concerns for which the presbytery has responsibility.
• Accountability: review the work of the committees/ministry teams and personnel, as well as the life of the presbytery as a whole. Representatives of each committee/ministry team will meet at least once a year with the Shepherding Team to discuss visions, plans, blessings and challenges. Each committee/ministry team may request on the Shepherding Team docket at any time.
• Visioning: creatively guide the presbytery into the future by discerning the Spirit.
• Provide orientation to the ministry of presbytery for those serving on ministry teams, committees and subcommittees.
• Provide guidance to the 1001 Worshiping Communities and New Church Development/Church Transformation/Revitalization.
• Oversight of presbytery’s finances.
• Review and comment on the representation report from the Shared Gifts of Individuals Ministry Team and report this to the presbytery.
• Receive annual reports from the South Carolina Inn at Montreat, Bethelwoods, Thornwell, and Presbyterian Communities of South Carolina.
• Recommend to the Stewardship of Individual Gifts of Ministry Team persons to serve on the boards /ministry teams.
• Establish Ministry Teams, sub-committees and commissions as needed to accomplish the work of the Shepherding Team.
• Employ and terminate staff (other than the general presbyter and stated clerk), approve position descriptions, and recommend levels of compensation.
• Administer all other matters as directed by the presbytery.

Staff Advisors