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Church Government

The government of the Church is vested in Session (The Church's Ministers and elected elders) at the local level, Presbytery at the Wellington level and General Assembly at the National Level.  The General Assembly is the highest of these three courts and meets once a year.

St John's also has a Council, which consists of the leaders of various church committees, including Finance, Communications and Christian Education, as well as Session representatives, the Minister and Chair of the St John's Women's Association.  Much of the day to day administrative business is carried out by the Council, including the functions of the Board of Mangers found in some other Presbyterian Churches.  A large number of other St John's members contribute to the work of the Church through its various committees.

St John's in the City is part of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, whose web site gives much more details about Church Government matters.  It also gives brief details on basic Church beliefs and other activities of the national church.  Here's the link to the national church web site:

Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

The Wellington Presbytery meets monthly and gathers for business and fellowship at different churches throughout the region to resource faith communities for mission.  Ministers and Presbytery Elders from St John’s in the City take seriously the responsibilities of being part of a National church, with the need to maintain and foster links to the wider church.

St John's also has a number of Committees and suborganisations, some of which are listed here (Current at 11 September 2010:

Boys Brigade

Contact: 2wgtn@bb.org.nz ,

Matthew Bayliss on 021 0278 3981

 

Christian Education Committee

Contact: Geoff Annals, Geoffa@nzo.org.nz

 

Communications Committee

Contact: Ross Davis, ross@bgi.org.nz , 0274975227, 04 385 9549

 

Finance Committee

Contact: Ross Chesney

04 232 0171

Outreach Committee

Contact: Ailsa Salt, ajs@hyper.net.nz

 

Pastoral Care Committee

Contact: Judi Ferguson 

04 972 9901

Property Committee

Contact: David Wood

04 973 5724

Social Committee

Contact: David Ensor

04 476 6808

 

St J’s Kids

Contact: Anna Davis, 04 385 1546

or 04 934 2167

 

Womens Association

Contact: Mary Gibbs

04 3838 446

Youth Group

Contact: Dave Adams dave@bgi.org.nz

04 3859 549



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