Ministry Committee

The responsibilities of the Ministry Committee are to oversee pastors and their credentials and all candidates being prepared for various forms of ministry.

The committee will:

• Work with Ministry Networks, who have the primary oversight of all pastors and candidates. 
• Receive and review a Congregational Ministry Covenant from each pastor, congregation, and candidate within its jurisdiction each year.
• Engage in conversation with that pastor or congregation for the purpose of restoring the covenant relationship, if it appears that a pastor or congregation seems to be failing to uphold the covenant partnership, the Ministry Committee.
• Initiate a disciplinary process, if a pastor or congregation persists in denying or failing to uphold any portion of the covenant partnership, the Ministry Committee
• Be responsible for all ministry candidates under care, and will, after appropriate examination, experience, and education that satisfies the guidelines and requirements determined by the National Network, present the candidate for examination to the Support Network. All candidates will demonstrate proven ability to make disciples. All candidates will affirm the Essential Tenets of Our Reformed Faith without scruples and affirm The Declaration of Ethical Imperatives and The Constitution. 
• Keep a roll of all active pastors and lay pastors within its bounds and shall, when appropriate, remove individuals from that roll through retirement or transfer and add individuals who either transfer in or are recognized through certification/ordination.
• Keep a roll of clergy serving outside that congregation and of retired pastors and will encourage their participation in the Pastor’s Covenant Group, Ministry Network relationships, and local congregations.

Presently the Committee consists of:

Chairman, Rev. Dean Weaver, Memorial Park, Pittsburg, PA

Rev. Rod Bakker, Faith Presbyterian Church, Quincy, IL

Rev. Wayne Hardy, Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian Church, Tulsa, OK

Rev. Sean Martin, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Simsbury, CT

RE David Ayers, Faith Presbyterian Church, Quincy, IL

RE Lee Carvill, Orchard Presbyterian Church, Londonderry, NH

RE Richard Gash, Bay Presbyterian Church, Bay Village, OH

RE Mac McCarty, Forks of the Brandywine Presbyterian Church, Glenmoore, PA

RE Ted Wray, Great Valley Presbyterian Church, Malvern, PA

You can contact the committee at:

Dean Weaver Lead Pastor

Memorial Park Presbyterian Church

8800 Peebles Road

Pittsburgh, PA 15101 

(412) 364-9492