The Committee on Ministry (COM) supports National Capital Presbytery’s (NCP) responsibilities for the care, oversight, and accountability for teaching elders and educators.
These include examining, receiving, and dismissing minister members; offering encouragement and support to teaching elders and educators; seeking healthy relationships between teaching elders and congregations; working with congregations experiencing conflict; and helping congregations secure appropriate pastoral leadership and educators in times of transition.
The work is carried out by four teams of teaching and ruling elders – Congregational Transitions, Examinations, Ministry Relations, and Teaching Elder Care & Nurture – and with the oversight of the COM Coordinating Commission.
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Resources:
Congregational Transitions Commission (CTC)
Clergy
Commissioned Ruling Elder (CRE)
Educators
For Congregations
Stated Supply
Procedure documents for Stated Supply:
When Pastoral Relationships End
Procedure documents:
For Pastor Nominating Committees (PNCs)
Procedure documents:
Teaching Elder Care & Nurture (TEC&N)
Whether ministry is beautiful or hard and heartbreaking for you in this season, there are many ways that the TEC&N Team can support you!
Do you...
Need a listening ear?
Need a sabbatical approved?
Need help navigating the process of getting your ministry recognized as a validated ministry within NCP?
Need a grant to support individual coaching or spiritual direction?
Contact the TEC&N co-chairs and/or apply for a grant.
Ministry Relations Team (MRT)
The Ministry Relations Team (MRT) blends care, oversight and accountability for members of the presbytery and congregations through its work in crisis engagement and conflict management. MRT also oversees the expenditure of the Clergy Crisis Funds to support pastors and their families in particular hardship.
Ministry Crisis Fund
About the Fund
The Ministry Crisis Fund is a longstanding financial resource of National Capital Presbytery. It has two purposes:
- To assist in responding to the emerging crises in the lives of clergy, church professionals and employees and others involved in our joint ministry.
- To assist congregations as they deal with emerging ministry crises, primarily in the area of conflict involving staff and/or members.
The Fund, under the stewardship of the Crisis Team of the Presbytery’s Committee on Ministry (COM), strives to partner with individuals and congregations to marshal a range of resources to restore health, wholeness, and strength in situations of crisis, conflict, and other situations of need.
To apply for assistance from the Fund
The Ministry Crisis Fund exists to help members of the Presbytery with acute, urgent needs. Funds are typically limited to $10,000 and extended in the form of loans, repayable over time, to enable as many recipients to benefit as possible, but may be forgiven upon request if there is no means to repay over the long term.
To apply, please answer the following questions and send your request to the General Presbyter.
- Describe the nature of the crisis.
- What other sources of support do you have? How are you marshalling that help?
- How specifically can we help? How will that help move you forward?
- What will be the impact for you of not receiving the help?
The Ministry Relations Team of the Committee on Ministry will review your request at its meeting on the second Thursday of each month.
To Contribute to the Fund
Your gift to the Ministry Crisis Fund of National Capital Presbytery helps ensure timely support for ministers facing unexpected crises. Although the Fund is primarily supported through offerings collected at clergy installation services, contributions are always welcome and gratefully received. Give online or send a check payable to National Capital Presbytery, noting “Ministry Crisis Fund” on the memo line. Thanks for your support!