Recommendation to the SEC regarding Women’s Leadership Team

Passed by the SEC 4/23/2012, Amended 6/18/2012 

 
At a Session meeting in August 2011 the Session affirmed the gifts
and calling of women within the church to labor in serving the
church body short of being ordained as Deacons or Elders. The past
Women’s Leadership Team that was presented to the congregation
were appointed and not nominated from the congregation. The
Scriptures speak of leaders within the church who are Elders
(Overseers), Deacons and Women (or Wives) and this requires them
to be tested (1 Timothy 3:2-13 esp. v. 10).  
 

Recommendations:

1. This next class of Servant Leadership Training for Deacons
and Elders that we open up recommendations from the
congregation to women who would serve on a Women’s
Leadership Team (WLT). These women would go through
the training and interview process along with men who are
recommended. The Servant Leadership Development
Committee (SLDC) would put names of women who have
gone through the training before the SEC and Session to be
nominated to serve on the WLT. Those approved by the SEC
and Session would then be placed before the congregation
for vote to serve on the WLT. The women of the WLT would
assist Deacons, Elders and Staff in caring out their calling
and responsibilities to Christ Community Church.  
2. Women from the Women’s Leadership Team will be added to the SEC, Session and Diaconate as advisory participants and to ministry teams as full partners.

Women in Ministry at Christ Community Church

Adopted by the Christ Community Church Session August 18, 2011

 
Men and women are equal image bearers of God and share equality in
dignity and worth before God and one another. Also both women and men
share  an  equal  need  for  the  saving  grace  found  in  the  Gospel  of  Jesus
Christ.  Through  the  Holy  Spirit  men  and  women  are  to  exercise  the  full
range  of  their  spiritual  gifts  in  the  church.  There  are  no  gifts  of  the  Spirit
that  are  to  be  exclusively  exercised  by  men;  meaning  women  and men  are
to be real partners in ministry.  
      

Therefore,  within  Christ  Community  Church  women  may  join  and
participate  in  any  ministry  responsibilities  except  those  distinctive  to  the
ordained  offices  of  Elder  and  Deacon  as  described  in  the  Presbyterian
Church  in  America  (PCA)  Book  of  Church  Order  (BCO).  We  believe  the
Bible  teaches  that  God  has  entrusted  authoritative  teaching  (including
preaching),  administering  of  the  sacraments  and  the  responsibilities  of
church  discipline  to  the  Session  (consists  of  Ruling  Elders  elected  by  the
congregation  and  ordained  Pastors  called  by  the  congregation  to  serve  the
church).
      

Christ  Community Church  is  committed  to  equip  and deploy  women
into  multiple  arenas  of  leadership  and  service  including  Bible  teaching,
leading  small  groups,  serving  on  the  various  church  ministry  teams,
assisting in mercy ministry and by any other means to enable them to fully
exercise their gifts for the greater benefit of Christ’s body and the advancing
of God’s kingdom.