Church Leadership

Elders provide administrative oversight, as well as focus on the spiritual development of the congregation as a whole. Much of the leadership that is provided involves vision and direction for ministries within the church. Ruling elders are also responsible for shepherding or guiding individual congregation members and assisting them to grow in Christ. In our Reformed and Presbyterian system of church government, the ruling elders serve alongside our pastor, who is a teaching elder. Together, the ruling elders and the teaching elder equally share in leadership though our session. There are indications of something along the lines of elders serving God’s people, as far back as Exodus 18, a time in which Moses’ father-in-law Jethro recommended to Moses that he choose able men to help him govern God’s people. This tradition continued in Israel and then later on as Paul trained and installed elders while planting churches in the 1st century.