What we do

The Ministry and Mission Committee is part of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales. Its function is to advance the formation, staffing and flourishing of healthy, multiplying Presbyterian churches

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