The Session
The Church's Governing Board
The Session consists of Teaching Elders (our pastors) and Ruling Elders drawn from our active membership. Ruling Elders are elected for three-year terms. Meetings are scheduled for the fourth Monday evening of each month. Meetings are moderated by the Pastor.
The Book of Order (the church’s constitution) calls upon the Session to provide for worship and encourage people to fully and regularly participate in worship. The responsibilities of the Session include evangelism, mission and justice, worship, education, stewardship, finance, transformation, administration, relations with higher governing bodies (e.g., the Presbytery), and ecumenical relationships in the community.
Current Session Members
Dr. David Ezekiel, Moderator
George Landes Jr., Clerk of Session
Anna Armstrong (’28), Rich Barbour (’27), Bard Boand (’27),
Martha Boling-Risser (’28), Ross Clover (’26), Bob Dick (’27),
Mari Franklin (’28), Ron Furst (’28), Debra Johnson (’26),
Heather Layne (’26), Peter Shaeffer (’26), Molly Stine (’27)
Committees
The Session is reorganizing into the following committees. Click on any committee to learn more:
- Christian Education: George Steffen
- A/V: Heather Layne
- Communications: Mari Hoashi Franklin
- Facilities: Ron Furst
- Finance/Stewardship: Molly Stine
- Hospitality & Fellowship: Susan Thiess
- Mission: Jodie Harmsen
- New Members: Anna Armstrong
- Leadership Nominations Committee: Robert Stine
- Personnel: Peter Shaeffer
- Worship: Bob Dick
Session Minutes/Reports Archives
Session Meeting Minutes
Congregational Meeting Minutes
Reports (Annual, Financial)
PCB and SMART Goals
To ensure that each committee focuses its attention and resources on what is most important, each committee has SMART Goals, along with the Session and PCB itself. The SMART Goals are meant to be a fluid document, updated regularly by the committee. Once a goal is completed, it is removed and replaced with another.
SMART Goals are designed to work in conjunction with the goals of PCB. They are supportive of each other with committee SMART Goals dovetailing into the SMART Goals of PCB. In order that the Session is kept updated on a committee’s goals, every monthly Session meeting has up to two committees report on their SMART Goals progress to the Session, issues they may be running into, as well as any help they may need.
