About Us

What We Do

The Committee is responsible to the General Assembly for the following outcomes:

• facilitate the deployment of ordained ministers wherever we can.
• recruit home missionaries, supervise their training and superintend their appointment to fields where ordained ministers are not available or as assistants to ministers
• provide financial and personal assistance to establish (or re-establish) good gospel ministry
• supervise the working conditions of ministers and home missionaries and promote their personal welfare
• set minimum remuneration levels for ministers, home missionaries and deaconesses
• examine (and approve or disapprove) proposed terms of employment for any position of temporary or supply ministry
• research and regulate all matters affecting the establishment or re-arrangement of congregations
• initiate co-operative ministries with other denominations as may be appropriate and report to the Trustees and relevant presbyteries about such ministries
• review proposals for the sale or reassignment of redundant congregational assets and report to presbyteries and the Trustees on alternate uses of such assets
• provide low-interest loans to help congregations and some ministry personnel to acquire cars for use in ministry
• operate a fund to provide for long service leave for persons in ministry positions in line with the Long Service Leave Act (1955)
• promote the training and development of lay people for ministry and mission (currently focusing on training people in biblical peacemaking)
• co-ordinate the appointment of Presbyterian chaplains to the defence force and to emergency services in NSW