Policies and Guidelines

  1. Presbytery Coordinating Commission

    1. Manual of Operations
    2. Mission Strategy 2006-2010 Task Force Report
    3. Presbytery Assembly
      1. Guidelines for Presbytery Assembly Meetings
      2. Guidelines for Communication Between Sessions and the Presbytery Assembly
      3. Procedures for Submitting Overtures to the 2012 General Assembly
      4. Requests for Communion
    4. Presbytery Mission
      1. “Who Speaks for the Presbytery?”
      2. Interfaith Solidarity Group
      3. Use of Agape House Funds for Campus Ministry
    5. Internal Presbytery Operations
      1. Presbytery Staffing Design
      2. Personnel Policy Manual
      3. Technology Policy and Standards
      4. Records Retention Schedule
    6. Financial and Property Matters
      1. Investment Objectives and Guidelines Statement
      2. Real Estate Subgroup Approval of Leases
      3. Agreements on the Use of Congregation Facilities
      4. Report of the Task Force on Property Titles
      5. Endowment Funds Policy
      6. Real Estate Approval Matrix

  2. Commission on Ministry

    1. Examination of Candidates and Teaching Elders Seeking Membership in the Presbytery of Chicago
    2. Pastors Dissolving Their Calls
    3. Pastors Who Retire
    4. Guidelines for Sabbatical Leave
    5. Commissioned Ruling Elders

  3. Commission on Preparation for Ministry

    1. Discerning Your Call: Preparing for the Ministry of the Word and Sacrament
    2. Seminary Education Indebtedness Policy

  4. Committee on Nominations

    1. Nominating Commissioners to General Assembly
    2. Consideration of Presbytery Attendance

  5. Shared Responsibility

    1. Safe Boundaries Policy
    2. Congregational Issues
      1. Worshipping Fellowships Policy
      2. Guidelines for Receiving Established Congregations
      3. Policy for Church Mergers
      4. Guidelines for Congregations in Sale of Manse
      5. Guidelines for Administrative Commission Appointed to Close a Church

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