For
more information about the Ministry Council contact Gwen Roddye, Chairperson
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
For the Glory of God, the Ministry Council will:
- Seek Christ's Vision
- Support Ministry Development
- Serve the Church
- Ministry Council Diagram & Overview
- Director of Ministries - Edith M. Gholson
The Ministry Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was established by the 177th General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (2007). The council is made up of fifteen members (three members from each Synod with no more than either nine clergy or lay members and no more than nine members of either gender). Seven advisory members include the Stated Clerk, Moderator(s), immediate Past Moderator, and three youth (ages sixteen to nineteen when elected).
In
2008, the Ministry Council assumed the responsibilities of the General
Assembly Council. Soon, the Cumberland Presbyterian Publication
Board, the Board of Christian Education, the Board of Missions, and the
Commission on the Ministry will merge into the Ministry Council as the
Communications, Discipleship, Missions, and Pastoral Development
Ministry Teams. Edith M. Gholson, the newly hired Director of
Ministries began work September 1, 2008, with the Ministry Council and,
along with four Team Leaders, will lead the work of the Ministry Teams.
The Chairperson of the Ministry Council
is Gwen Roddye, an elder from the Beaver Creek Church in Knoxville,
Tennessee. The First Vice Chairperson is Jill Carr, an elder from the
White Oak Pond Church in Lebanon, Missouri, and the Second Vice
Chairperson is Wayne Wood, a member of Arkansas Presbytery who recently
retired as pastor of the Calico Rock Church. The Council Secretary is
elder Elizabeth Horsley from the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
in Denton, Texas.