2016 Wesleyan Discipline:Local Board of Administration General Duties and Powers
From Wesleyan Discipline
General
- (1) To direct all activities of the church toward the spiritual, moral, and social maturity of its people.
- (2) To provide a place of worship.
- (3) To counsel with the pastor, as the pastor may request, concerning all phases of the pastor’s work, and to coordinate the work of all the officers, boards, committees, and auxiliaries of the church.
- (4) To cooperate with the pastor in evaluating the health of the local church; establishing policies, goals, and objectives for more effectively fulfilling the mission of the church; empowering the pastor to pursue the goals and objectives, within the established policies and through the staff and members; and periodically receiving performance reports from the pastor regarding progress.
- (5) To receive monthly reports from the pastor (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:725:32), associate and assistant pastor(s), church treasurer (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:842:3), Sunday school treasurer (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:898); quarterly reports from the spiritual formation director; quarterly reports from the Sunday school superintendent (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:889:6); and reports as the local board of administration shall require from all officers, boards, committees, auxiliaries, and auxiliary officers.
- (6) To direct the church in its evangelistic outreach, seeking to win its community to Christ; to establish an extension department of spiritual formation (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:880:15; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:913); to recommend to the local church conference the establishment and operation of a mission, a branch Sunday school, a branch small group Bible study, or a developing church, as it deems necessary and proper (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:537; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:655:16).
- (7) To adopt an annual calendar of events.