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The session of Oahe
Presbyterian Church consists of the pastor and elders in active services
as chairs of the committees. The committees of the Session are:
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Buildings and
Grounds
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Christian
Education - Adult
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Christian
Education - Youth
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New
Member/Church Growth
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Personnel/Pastoral Relations
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Stewardship and
Finance
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Worship
 All
members of the session, including the pastor, are entitled to
vote. The session is responsible for the mission and government
of Oahe Church. It therefore has the responsibility and power
to:
a) provide
opportunities for evangelism to be learned and practiced in
and by the church;
b) receive members into the church;
c) lead the congregation in participation in the mission of
the whole Church of the world;
d) provide for the worship of the people of God; including the
preaching of the Word, the sharing of the Sacraments, and
for the music program;
e) provide for the growth of its members and for their
equipment for ministry through personal and pastoral care,
educational programs including the church school, sharing in
fellowship and mutual support, and opportunities for witness
and service in the worldwide church;
f) develop and supervise the church school and the educational
program of the church;
g) lead the congregation in ministries of personal and social
healing and reconciliation in the communities in which the
church lives and bears its witness;
h) challenge the people of God with the privilege of
responsible Christian stewardship of money and time and
talents;
i) establish annual budget, determine the distribution of the
church's benevolences, and order offerings for Christian
purposes;
j) lead the congregation continually to discover what God is
doing in the world and to plan for change, renewal, and
reformation under the word of God;
k) engage in a process for education and mutual growth of the
members of the session;
l) instruct, examine, ordain, install, and welcome into common
ministry elders and deacons on their election by the
congregation and to inquire into their faithfulness in
fulfilling their responsibilities;
m) delegate and to supervise the work of the board of deacons
and all other organizations and task forces within the
congregation, providing for support, report, review and
control;
n) provide for the administration of the program of the
church, including employment of non-ordained staff;
o) provide for the management of the property of the church;
p) maintain regular and continuing relationship to the higher
governing bodies of the church;
q) establish and maintain those ecumenical relationships
necessary for the life and mission of Oahe Church in the
Pierre-Ft. Pierre area;
r) serve in judicial matters in accordance with the Rules of
Discipline;
s) keep an accurate roll of the membership of the church, in
accordance with the Book of Order.
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