Session Agenda

Thought you might find of interest the typical agenda format of the monthly Session meetings (every 4th Tuesday of the month):

1. Call to Order
2. Reading of Scripture by the Moderator
3. Prayer by elders and deacons/esses (The Session and Diaconate meet together the first 20 minutes for the above and sharing of news.)
4. Hearing of persons scheduled to appear before Session (This month Paul Jones met to give a report on music ministry.)
5. Time of instruction (going through the Westminster of Confession; elders take turns teaching)
6. Priority business
7. Approval of minutes from pervious meetings
8. Trustees report, including Building and Personnel Committees
9. Clerk's report (Sam Hsu is the present Clerk of Session)
10. Ministerial Reports (from each minister; Phil also presents reports from David Apple and Cora Hogue)
11. Commission Reports (Church Planting, Family Life, Growth and Maturity, Missions)
12. Permanent Committee Reports (Nominating Officers, Music)
13. Ministry Reports (Medical Campus Outreach, Tenth College Union
14. Parish Reports
15. Special Committee Reports
16. Old Business
17. New Business
18. Presbytery Report
19. Prayer and adjournment

The meetings begin at 6:30 and end usually between 9 & 9:30.