The Steward Board

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THE BOARD OF STEWARDS serve as advisers to the pastor. A Steward assists the pastor in all administrative capacities, helping to implement courses of action to facilitate decision-making.

OBJECTIVES

·       Make an exact account of all money and other provisions collected for the support of the Church.

·       Establish along with the Pastor his/her salary and benefit package, commensurate with the cost of living in the given geographical area and the financial capacity of the local congregation.

·       Seek the needy and distressed in order to relieve and comfort them.

·       Serve as spiritual lay leaders of the church.

·       Register all baptisms, marriages, and deaths within the congregation.

·       Survey the membership to determine the extent of each member's financial support, attended the regular means of grace, and support of the various benevolent enterprises of the church.

·       Stewards are responsible for maintaining the records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, probationers and full members.  Investigate all members on the church roll and submit its findings as the certified membership roll to the Official Board for approval.  

·       When the Pastor is ill or absent, if no one has been left in charge, the Stewards must see to it that the pulpit is supplied with a minister. Stewards should always be respectful and subject to their bishop, their presiding elder, and their minister in the discharge of duty.

·       A Steward’s service is for a period of one (1) year.  The Pastor presides over and appoints the Board of Steward members annually. The Presiding Elder at the First Quarterly Conference confirms the Board of Stewards. 

·       The official session of Stewards and Pastor constitute a Board by the General Rules. No other presences in the official church can override their jurisdictional ruling involving their church.  The Stewards with their Pastor are effective and responsible for their church entirely.

Members of the Board of Stewards – 2020 – 2021

                                               Tatyana Anthoney                       Louis W. Mason

                                               Lori Henry                                    Avis McMillan

                                               Antoinette Johnson                    Naomi Satterwhite

                                               Alton Jones                                 Fred Smalls

                                               Anthea Lett                                 E. Pearl Smith

                                               Tisha Lett                                    V. Lorraine Vance

 

Additional information on the BOARD OF STEWARDS may be found in THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 2016 (pages 85, 86, 87).